The Obamas spoke with People magazine about dealing with
their "own racist experiences."
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| Michelle Obama At Target September 2011 |
Michelle Obama told People of one event that recently took place, even
as she was first lady of the United States.
"I tell this story – I mean, even as the first lady –
during that wonderfully publicized trip I took to Target, not highly disguised,
the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help
her take something off a shelf. Because she didn't see me as the first lady,
she saw me as someone who could help her. Those kinds of things happen in life.
So it isn't anything new," Michelle Obama, who is 5'11", said.
She also said that her husband, Barack Obama, was asked to
get coffee when he was wearing a tux.
"He was wearing a tuxedo at a black-tie dinner, and somebody asked
him to get coffee," she told People.
The president told his own experiences. "There's no
black male my age, who's a professional, who hasn't come out of a restaurant
and is waiting for their car and somebody didn't hand them their car
keys," Obama stated in the magazine.
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