Michelle Obama Shares How She Dealt With Being Labeled ‘An Angry Black Woman’
- 7 years ago
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama discusses how she reacted to being labeled, ‘an angry black woman’ during her husband’s first presidential campaign.
On Monday, in an interview segment released on 'CBS This Morning,' Michelle Obama discussed how she reacted to being labeled, ‘an angry black woman’ during her husband’s first presidential campaign.
Michelle told Oprah Winfrey, “it was one of those things that you just sort of think, ‘dang, you don’t even know me’…you just sort of feel like, ‘wow, where’d that come from?’”
She continues, “That’s the first blowback cause you think, ‘…that is so not me.’ Then you sort of think, ‘well, this isn’t about me. This is about the person or the people who write it’…Then you start thinking, ‘oh, wow, we are so afraid of each other.’ Color, wealth, these things that don’t matter still play too much of a role in how we see one another.”
The first lady goes on to explain what is important, commenting, “It’s our values…it’s how we live our lives…you can’t tell that from somebody’s race...”
Michelle says she ultimately came to the conclusion that the best way to handle the detractors was to, “…live my life out loud so that people can then see and then judge for themselves…that’s what I want young people to do, just live you life, live it out loud.”
In another segment from the same interview released earlier, the discussion took a more somber note after Oprah asked Michelle, “Your husband’s administration…was all about hope. Do you think that this administration achieved that?”
The first lady responded, “Yes, I do. Because we feel the difference now. See now we are feeling what not having hope feels like, you know. Hope is necessary. It is a necessary concept. What do you give your kids if you can’t give them hope?”
ABC News reports that Donald Trump reacted to that statement during a Saturday night rally in Mobile, Alabama.
He said Michelle Obama, “must have been talking about the past" and proposed that, "she made that statement not meaning it the way it came out."
On Monday, in an interview segment released on 'CBS This Morning,' Michelle Obama discussed how she reacted to being labeled, ‘an angry black woman’ during her husband’s first presidential campaign.
Michelle told Oprah Winfrey, “it was one of those things that you just sort of think, ‘dang, you don’t even know me’…you just sort of feel like, ‘wow, where’d that come from?’”
She continues, “That’s the first blowback cause you think, ‘…that is so not me.’ Then you sort of think, ‘well, this isn’t about me. This is about the person or the people who write it’…Then you start thinking, ‘oh, wow, we are so afraid of each other.’ Color, wealth, these things that don’t matter still play too much of a role in how we see one another.”
The first lady goes on to explain what is important, commenting, “It’s our values…it’s how we live our lives…you can’t tell that from somebody’s race...”
Michelle says she ultimately came to the conclusion that the best way to handle the detractors was to, “…live my life out loud so that people can then see and then judge for themselves…that’s what I want young people to do, just live you life, live it out loud.”
In another segment from the same interview released earlier, the discussion took a more somber note after Oprah asked Michelle, “Your husband’s administration…was all about hope. Do you think that this administration achieved that?”
The first lady responded, “Yes, I do. Because we feel the difference now. See now we are feeling what not having hope feels like, you know. Hope is necessary. It is a necessary concept. What do you give your kids if you can’t give them hope?”
ABC News reports that Donald Trump reacted to that statement during a Saturday night rally in Mobile, Alabama.
He said Michelle Obama, “must have been talking about the past" and proposed that, "she made that statement not meaning it the way it came out."