Originally posted by Sparko
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This just shows how disconnected the Obamas are from real life.
Besides, aren't white conservative pundits always telling us that black people need to work hard and value education and present themselves properly to achieve power and respect and be viewed equally? Michelle Obama has done all that--she was the salutatorian of her high school class, studied at Princeton and Harvard, married an equally well-educated man who became president of the most powerful free nation in the world--and yet she wasn't treated in the way that white first ladies would probably be treated. Yes, it's possible that the shoppers simply didn't recognize her, and that there was no racial bias or malice involved, but considering that she's one of the most famous women in America, it's understandable that she didn't immediately assume this. And given her family's history, it's also understandable that she may have suspected some racial factor was at play.
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