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African American women see their own challenges mirrored in Michelle Obama’s
Washington Post ^ | January 23, 2012 | Krissah Thompson and Vanessa Williams

Posted on 01/24/2012 7:59:18 AM PST by NCjim

As black women watch Michelle Obama on the national stage, they search — sometimes nervously — for nuances often lost on the larger culture. How she handles criticism, how she raises her children, even her style of dress, has the potential to counter negative stereotypes.

“She is mainstreaming to the world what a lot of us already know about ourselves,” says Dacenta Grice, a 37-year-old black woman who works as a physician assistant in Atlanta. “She reinforces the reality that so many of us live. She is a black woman who just seems fantastic in her own right, who just seems like every day people and is relatable.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: flotus; grifters; mobama; racecard; racism
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To: NCjim

What - the challenge of figuring out what wine goes best with $100 a pound wagyu beef?


21 posted on 01/24/2012 8:15:06 AM PST by cvq3842
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To: NCjim

Dies this include those white African American women or just black women who for the most part call themselves AA but have no clue even what country their ancestors came from hundreds of years ago.

Talk to a liberal and point out that white people are African too and they look dumbfounded and I’ve even had a couple state to me that white people are not African or they don’t come from Africa.

The MSM and the left are complete idiots with their PC crap and their bias towards their messiah.


22 posted on 01/24/2012 8:15:40 AM PST by manc (Marriage is between one man and one woman.Trolls get a life, I HATE OUR BIASED LIBERAL MEDIA.)
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To: NCjim

What challenge is that?... Being married to a guy on the “down low”?


23 posted on 01/24/2012 8:16:15 AM PST by Anti-Hillary (No Jesus, No Peace! Know Jesus, Know Peace!)
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To: cvq3842

T-Bird what’s the price 30 twice!


24 posted on 01/24/2012 8:17:34 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: NCjim


25 posted on 01/24/2012 8:17:42 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: Puppage

If Michelle Obama is your role model you are in deep do do!


27 posted on 01/24/2012 8:20:24 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: NCjim

challenges like her taxpayer trip to fancy Spanish hotels?

28 posted on 01/24/2012 8:24:45 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: NCjim

Haters - Hatin’ on Hatin’ America


29 posted on 01/24/2012 8:26:20 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: tomkat

Lol when I read the title I thought this needed to come with a bucket or barf-bag alert

How can most black women relate to vacations at the Taj Mahal or Hawaiian resorts? How can they relate to wearing jewelry in the 10’s of thousands of dollars? Or parties with Johnny Depp and Wookies?


30 posted on 01/24/2012 8:28:54 AM PST by Babashane
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To: NCjim

That arrogant, elitist has had no “challenges”. She has been handed everything for doing nothing and then not even appreciated it. “For the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country”, flying around the world with the mom, kids and friends in a private jet, a high-paying worthless job in Illinois with no responsibility,....


31 posted on 01/24/2012 8:33:32 AM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: NCjim

>> As black women bla bla bla bla BLABBITY bla

Race race race race race race race race race race

It’s all about RACE with this bunch. 24 by 7, 365 days per year. Except leap years when it’s all about race 366 days.

Race race race race race race race race race race


32 posted on 01/24/2012 8:37:59 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: NCjim

Proof that idiots do come in pairs.


33 posted on 01/24/2012 8:43:17 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Dr. Ursus
T-Bird what’s the price 30 twice!

Where you cop? Beauty shop!

What's the price? Cut it twice!


34 posted on 01/24/2012 8:56:46 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: NCjim

You forgot the “Hurl till you collapse a lung” alert!


35 posted on 01/24/2012 8:59:45 AM PST by Envisioning ( Call me a racist................, one more time......................)
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To: NCjim

So, they are fantasizing that the street cheap wookie makes black women look good? LOL. She can’t even make a $2000.00 dress look good.


36 posted on 01/24/2012 9:08:16 AM PST by formosa (Formosa)
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Comment # * * self censored by Arrowhead1952

37 posted on 01/24/2012 9:15:28 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Dear God, thanks for the rain, but please let it rain more in Texas. Amen.)
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F U M O
38 posted on 01/24/2012 9:27:50 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways a Guero y Guay Lao << >> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona)
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To: NCjim

http://obamaprincetonthesis.wordpress.com/

Just change the name and date and yet another Affirmative Action post-turtle graduates with honors.


39 posted on 01/24/2012 9:33:14 AM PST by tumblindice (whiny. little. bitch.)
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To: NCjim

Then we’re going to have a lot of angry mad black women.


40 posted on 01/24/2012 9:36:31 AM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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