Regal in Purple
First Lady is Elegant and Stunning- admit it. This is really inspirational and a wonderful example to every single little girl who thought that were born with any disadvantage or defect to demonstrate what faith, hard work, intelligence and poise can do. Not to mention marrying well.
If I was born on the questionable side of the tracks in the South Side of Chicago surrounded by
drugs and delinquency, I don't know if I would have had the faith and vision to see a life for myself that Michele O is living. It is almost a fairy tale- but its real. If I grew up as a black young adult at a prestigious Ivy League school I would feel the brunt of prejudice and being looked down upon by the monied daughters and sons of Alumns. I would want to be twice as good, work twice as hard, be twice as smart and pray twice as hard. Michele O apparently did.
She is smart, creative, poised, and now we know she has great legs too.
I hope her trip to Europe gives her the added confidence to feel deep in her gut that she is also deeply loved by people she might not suspect care at all. If I grew up where she did I know I would be surrounded by hatred and suspicion, some quite deserved, and it would be challenging not to transpose that onto a wider group of similar people. It was popular to demonize all white people in some circles and some white people deserved it well enough.
But there are other white people- the kind with big ears in Ireland who look distantly like your husband's cousins. Or other white mothers, like my niece who have black children. Or others who devoted their lives professionally or personally to fighting against discrimination and for civil liberties. And we love you, Michele Obama.
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