Michelle Obama Says She And Barack “Could’ve Never Gotten Away With” What Trump Has Done
On the latest episode of “The Michelle Obama Podcast,” the former first lady opened up about being Black in America and in the White House.
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While speaking about their time in office, Mrs. Obama explained that she and former President Obama “never could’ve gotten away with some of the stuff that’s going on now” in the White House because their “community wouldn’t have accepted that,” The Hill quotes.
Obama, 56, who was joined on the podcast by her mother, Marian Robinson, 83, and her older brother, Craig Robinson, 58, also discussed race and the interactions between African-Americans and police officers – including an incident from the family’s own experience.
They talked about the time police once accuse Craig — now an executive director with the National Association of Basketball Coaches — of stealing his own bicycle when he was a young boy.
“You were riding down the street and you got stopped by the police, and they accused you of stealing your own bike,” Obama remembered. “And they would not believe you, to the point where you were like, ‘Take me to my home.'” Despite that, he said the incident when he was 10 or 11 years old was “terrifying” and it left him completely “heartbroken,” especially because he was “always taught that the police are your friends … and they’ll believe the truth.”
“What a lot of folks who are not in our position don’t understand is that this is such a way of life when it comes to interacting with the rest of the world,” Obama said according to The Hill. “It doesn’t matter who you are and what kind of values you have, nobody thinks about the fact that we all come from good families that are trying to teach values.”
“When you leave the safety of your home and go out into the street, where being Black is a crime in and of itself, we have all had to learn how to operate outside of our homes with a level of caution and fear because you never know,” Obama, 56, added.
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