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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Wed Dec 17, 2014, 01:20 PM Dec 2014

The Obamas Open Up About The Racism They've Faced

By BRENDAN JAMES Published DECEMBER 17, 2014, 9:49 AM EST

Amid a heated national discussion on race and discrimination, the first family opened up to People Magazine about their own experiences with racism in an article published online Wednesday.

"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," the President told the magazine, saying it once happened to him.

"He was wearing a tuxedo at a black-tie dinner, and somebody asked him to get coffee," the first lady added.

The portion of the interview appearing online is a teaser of the 30-minute conversation the Obamas had with People, which is set to hit newsstands on Friday.

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The Obamas Open Up About The Racism They've Faced (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2014 OP

He's right. Baitball Blogger Dec 2014 #1

big kick and big rec! nt steve2470 Dec 2014 #2

The Unitarian Universalists had a huge eye opening experience when they held their GA in Dallas... Pacifist Patriot Dec 2014 #3

Baitball Blogger

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1. He's right.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2014, 01:25 PM

Dec 2014

This is a common experience. It happened to a college friend who was a guest at a posh wedding in New York. What was so bad was that his fraternity brothers (white) witnessed it and they all thought it was hilarious.

steve2470

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2. big kick and big rec! nt

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2014, 01:55 PM

Dec 2014

Pacifist Patriot

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3. The Unitarian Universalists had a huge eye opening experience when they held their GA in Dallas...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2014, 02:42 PM

Dec 2014

and I wouldn't be surprised if it's happened at other GAs.

A fair number of UUs were horrified to learn that they had assumed fellow black UUs were bellhops and valets at their hotels and treated them as such. Talk about the shit hitting the fan! An ostensibly liberal group learned the hard way that yes indeed, they are very much a part of American institutional racism.

Anyone who thinks these stories are aberrations doesn't get out much.

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