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To: longnshort who wrote (855795)5/10/2015 3:13:09 PM
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Michelle Obama Let Loose on outright rabid Race-Baiting Campaign
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First Lady: 'Sting' of Racism 'Didn't Hold Me Back' First Lady: 'Sting' of Racism 'Didn't Hold Me Back'
ABC News ^ | May 9, 2015 | Erin Dooley
Posted on 5/10/2015, 2:43:13 PM by 2ndDivisionVet

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During a passionate address at historically black Tuskegee University Saturday, Michelle Obama said she refused to let the "sting" of racial bias define her.

"Over the years, folks have used plenty of interesting words to describe me. One said I exhibited a little bit of 'uppityism,'" the first lady said. "Cable news charmingly referred to me as 'Obama's baby mamma.'

"All of the chatter, the name-calling, the doubting, all of it was just noise," she said. "It did not define me, it didn't change who I was, and most importantly, it couldn't hold me back."

Conjuring up the incidents in Ferguson and Baltimore, Obama told graduates, "Here's the thing, the road ahead is not going to be easy. It never is, especially for folks like you and me.

"There will be times, when you feel like folks look right past you or they see just a fraction of who you really are," she said.

The first lady recalled watching passersby cross the street when they saw her, as though afraid for their safety, and department store clerks who kept extra close watch on her and her husband....

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ABC News ^ | May 9, 2015 | Erin Dooley


(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

During a passionate address at historically black Tuskegee University Saturday, Michelle Obama said she refused to let the "sting" of racial bias define her.

"Over the years, folks have used plenty of interesting words to describe me. One said I exhibited a little bit of 'uppityism,'" the first lady said. "Cable news charmingly referred to me as 'Obama's baby mamma.'

"All of the chatter, the name-calling, the doubting, all of it was just noise," she said. "It did not define me, it didn't change who I was, and most importantly, it couldn't hold me back."

Conjuring up the incidents in Ferguson and Baltimore, Obama told graduates, "Here's the thing, the road ahead is not going to be easy. It never is, especially for folks like you and me.

"There will be times, when you feel like folks look right past you or they see just a fraction of who you really are," she said.

The first lady recalled watching passersby cross the street when they saw her, as though afraid for their safety, and department store clerks who kept extra close watch on her and her husband....

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...



To: longnshort who wrote (855795)5/10/2015 3:15:03 PM
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Visitors to Fidel Castro's Posh 'Secret Island': Ted Turner, Erich Honnecher, Baba Wawa...

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