Race is the hot topic all over the world right now especially surrounding the Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York. incidents. In a recent interview President Obama And Michelle reveal their personal struggles with racism in America. Are The Obamas Being Treated Like The Help? Michelle Obama recalls an incident she witnessed President Obama experience: “He was wearing a tuxedo at a black-tie dinner, and somebody asked him to get coffee.” Did someone really disrespect the President of the United States like that? More stories below.
“Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs,” Mrs. Obama said in the Dec. 10 interview appearing in the new issue of PEOPLE. “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,” said the president, adding that, yes, it had happened to him.
“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.”
Things have gotten better, both Obamas agreed, but there’s still more progress to be made
