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EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Obama's mother was worried about her daughter marrying a biracial man
NY Daily News ^ | 3/17/15 | CELESTE KATZ

Posted on 03/18/2015 6:59:14 AM PDT by Impala64ssa

Long before Michelle Obama became First Lady, her mother had misgivings about her marrying a young man named Barack Obama — because he was biracial.

In a Chicago TV interview that aired during Obama’s 2004 U.S. Senate campaign — and newly resurrected by Michelle Obama biographer Peter Slevin in a book due out next month — Marion Robinson confessed to being “a little bit” wary about her future son-in-law being the product of a white mom and black dad.

But it could’ve been worse, according to Robinson.

“That didn’t concern me as much as had he been completely white,” Robinson laughed in the appearance on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight,” which was scarcely noticed at the time. “I guess that I worry about races mixing because of the difficulty — not for, so much for prejudice or anything,” Robinson continued. “It’s just very hard.”

Slevin’s forthcoming biography, “Michelle Obama: A Life,” doesn’t suggest those concerns spurred Robinson to oppose the union.

To the contrary, writes Slevin, a veteran Washington Post correspondent who now teaches journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School: “Marian, no pushover, was favorably impressed with Barack.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biracial; michellemother; moochelle; moockele; racism
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So Mother Robinson was merely concerned about the potential prejudice her daughter would face marrying a "zebra", not that she's a bigot herself. Sure, lady, whatever you say. Do I need to ask what the furor would be if, say Sarah Palin expressed similar concerns if one of her children married biracially?
1 posted on 03/18/2015 6:59:14 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

Worried about the wrong kind of “Bi”


2 posted on 03/18/2015 7:00:52 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Impala64ssa

Never mind.

I thought the headline said “bisexual.”


3 posted on 03/18/2015 7:01:00 AM PDT by Perseverando (In Washington it's common knowledge that Barack Hussein Obama is ineligible to be POTUS.)
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To: Impala64ssa
I don't think the Obamessiah's race should have been the biggest concern.
4 posted on 03/18/2015 7:01:20 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: Impala64ssa

Imagine any white person expressing such feelings, though i myself will never allow myself to be silenced by the race nazis.


5 posted on 03/18/2015 7:01:33 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Impala64ssa

I did not note the mother expressong any concerns as to obie’s “religious “ background.oddly enough


6 posted on 03/18/2015 7:01:39 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Impala64ssa

Thanks for channeling the spirit of that great race philosopher, George Jefferson!


7 posted on 03/18/2015 7:03:44 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Impala64ssa

Already posted once.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3269120/posts


8 posted on 03/18/2015 7:04:23 AM PDT by McGruff (Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.)
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To: mrsmel

Do a little research about how blacks of any mix are concerned about it. There are a multitude of terms they use amongst themselves.


9 posted on 03/18/2015 7:04:25 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Impala64ssa

But mama was cool with a drug addled, Marxist, Muslim, gay, lying, narcissistic mental light weight.


10 posted on 03/18/2015 7:05:22 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Gaffer

I worked at a nursing home and we had a lot of black CNAs. I was outside with one of them one day and she was talking about a relative and said he was “high yellow”.


11 posted on 03/18/2015 7:06:25 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

Ha ha....there are many more!!! If I said them I’d be racist.


12 posted on 03/18/2015 7:07:22 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

I used to lurk on black-oriented message boards, they’re not shy about voicing their objections in the most unvarnished language, especially the women, but also the more militant males. More power to them, it just burns me up that whites can’t express the same misgivings.


13 posted on 03/18/2015 7:07:38 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Gaffer

I was a bit taken aback but she just said it very matter-of-factly.


14 posted on 03/18/2015 7:08:10 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Impala64ssa
Maybe she'd be happy is her granddaughter married one of these. So WHO is Marcus Steele, II, Juwan McCallum, JaQuis Houston, and Deshay Shively,
and WHY is their MURDER of Eva Carmichael not being publicized by the LAME STREAM MEDIA.?
15 posted on 03/18/2015 7:09:26 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Of course! Because she is black, she cannot be racist and gets a pass by media for any racist comments she makes.


16 posted on 03/18/2015 7:09:34 AM PDT by Gaffer
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It all boils down to media perception of the ‘voicer’. If black, automatic pass. If white - racist white racism.


17 posted on 03/18/2015 7:10:39 AM PDT by Gaffer
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But mama was cool with a drug addled, Marxist, Muslim, gay, lying, narcissistic mental light weight.

Your cursive grammar give you away, whitey. You is racis. That should read
But mama BE DOWN with a etc. etc.

18 posted on 03/18/2015 7:11:21 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk ( Obama told us what he'd do, and did it. How about your Republican Representative?)
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To: Impala64ssa
MO mother is raciss....


19 posted on 03/18/2015 7:13:28 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Impala64ssa

He only played a negro for the opportunities.he’s no a real black!


20 posted on 03/18/2015 7:16:09 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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