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Michelle Obama Recalls Racist Double Standard If Daughters Were "Messy" While She Was First Lady: "It Wouldn't Have Been Laughed Off"
Essence ^ | 3/7/2023 | Malaika Jabali
Posted on 3/10/2023, 5:12:02 PM by simpson96
“How much of yourself had to be quieted while you were in the White House?” Hoda Kotb asked Michelle Obama on a book tour stop in Philadelphia. “So much of it,” the former first lady answers.
“It was no accident that our children had to show up right in the world. They carried a burden of making sure they weren’t messy,” Mrs. Obama shares in an exclusive audio clip shared with ESSENCE of her new Audible podcast, which launched Tuesday.
“It wouldn’t have been laughed off,” she continues. “It wouldn’t have been [dismissed as] just ‘oh it’s youthful’ whatever. It would have been some bigger statement about the soul of Black folks…That weight is exhausting.”
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