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8 Surprisingly Militant Pro-Black Statements in Michelle Obama’s New Biography

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The Possibility of Her Husband’s Assassination:

I don’t lose sleep over it because the realities are that, as a black man, Barack can get shot going to the gas station. So, you can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. We just weren’t raised that way.

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Media’s Negative Portrayal of Black People:

As we’ve all said in the black community, we don’t see all of who we are in the media. We see snippets of our community and distortions of our community. So the world has this perspective that somehow Barack and Michelle Obama are different, that we’re unique. And we’re not. You just haven’t seen us before.

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5 thoughts on “8 Surprisingly Militant Pro-Black Statements in Michelle Obama’s New Biography

  1. If she's so "militant", how could she possibly be married to a buck dancing house negro like her husband?

  2. That way I call treason of the black race how far did u dream no offence u RANDLE remind me of denizens role in glory and I'm African to the bone really not a fan of politics love and honest the FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES U MARK

  3. Tim Merrill says:

    I love that she speaks so honestly but I see this as the normal sentiments of the Afrikan American mainstream. Unless the definition of militant has drastically changed, I really don't see this term fitting her statements.

  4. Tim Merrill says:

    I love that she speaks so honestly but I see this as the normal sentiments of the Afrikan American mainstream. Unless the definition of militant has drastically changed, I really don't see this term fitting her statements.

  5. Pete Prosser says:

    Buck Dancing! that's funny. But you're right.

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