Washington – First lady Michelle Obama embraced her family’s African roots in a speech on Wednesday, telling a group of young Africans that the “blood of Africa” runs through her veins as she urged changing traditional beliefs on the worth of educating women.
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Her husband had shied away from discussing his African heritage in his own remarks to the 500 Africans finishing a six-week Washington leadership fellowship on Monday, referencing his Kenyan father only once and in the question-and-answer session. But Michelle Obama said as an African American woman, her discussion with the African youth was “deeply personal.”
“The roots of my family tree are in Africa,” the first lady told the cheering crowd. “My husband’s father was born and raised in Kenya. Members of our extended family still live there. I have had the pleasure of traveling to Africa many times over the years, including four trips as first lady, and I have brought my mother and my daughters along whenever I can.”
“The blood of Africa runs through my veins, and I care deeply,” Obama said, addressing her listeners as her “brothers” and “sisters.”
Three months before congressional elections that could determine the fate of much of President Obama’s platform, Michelle Obama’s popularity remains high while her husband’s has sunk.
The White House is making women’s empowerment a theme in a Washington African leaders summit next week. Michelle Obama said problems with girls’ education often stemmed from traditional “attitudes and beliefs” that exist even in the United States and lead to issues such as the gender pay gap and an underrepresentation of women in leadership.
She said men worldwide needed to “look into their hearts and souls and ask if they truly view women as their equals.”
“I am who I am today because of the people in my family, particularly the men in my family, who valued me and invested in me from the day I was born,” Obama said.
“And as I grew up, the men who raised me set a high bar for the type of men I’d allow into my life – which is why I went on to marry a man who had the good sense to fall in love with a woman who was his equal, to treat me as such – a man who supports and reveres me, and who supports and reveres our daughters as well,” Obama said.
Too bad they can’t find a way to blame the Jews
And the blood of Islam runs thru her husband’s.
Here is wishing that she moves back there with her hubby
This makes my blood run cold.
If that’s the case, FLOTUS – go back to your roots, and the source of your blood. You obviouslyidentify more as African than American, so what are you doing here? Apart from helping POTUS destroy America & Israel.
Yeah we could tell.
NOW GO BACK THERE AND TAKE HUSSEIN WITH YOU!
She should return to her roots -and stay there
When is this character going to make a white house bid?
You are such a left wing loser. You bend over backwards to be politically correct so your head meets your feet. If anyone is a racist it’s Michelle “African” Obama.
It was almost predictable….I could have forecast about 2/3 of the posts for this article, especially from the usual mindless Obama bashers like Mark Levin etc….On the other hand, when some goiyeshe politicians with a few Jewish voters run off to EY along with Evangelical Christians for photo ops and spout such meshugaas as “I feel like I am part of the Jewish People”, we kvell…..Hey Mark, do you realize you probably have some African blood in your background judging from the comments you’ve posted over the past several years. Go on line to Ancestors.Com and you’ll confirm.
The comments above prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the animosity and disdain for Obama among uneducated and uncouth frumme yidden is almost purely race-based. If a prominent American Jew would say “the blood of the Jewish people runs through my veins” or “The blood of Israel runs through my veins,” you would all be kvelling about what a proud Jew he or she is. Why does a black woman expressing racial or ethnic pride make your “blood run cold,” as one moron above put it? Far from being a light unto the nations or even just a nice little religious community that others can admire, the frum velt — particularly the so-called “heimishe” element — is a nest of racism and bigotry, with nothing but hate for anyone outside its dalod amos. As a friend of mine — a yeshive rebe for almost 50 years — told me a few days ago, “If I were a non-Jew or a non-frum Yid I would have no interest at all in becoming frum; the impression we give the world is that we’re ignorant and hateful, with nothing meaningful to offer any sensitive, caring person.”
“I don’t see any evidence of those things at all”
But, of course, you see the evidence that the President is a Muslim, right Cletus? You’re obviously one of our היימישער bigots, who is too much of a coward to admit to what you so pathetically are. It’s one thing to disagree with a President’s policies, and quite another to mock his ancestry. Get it through your thick skull Cletus- he’s black, he’s President, and you ought to get a life.
“Nonetheless, I’m still waiting for your evidence”
Cletus, you couldn’t recognize the truth if it walked up to you and bit you! Like all our own היימישער bigots, when there is absolutely not the slightest modicum or scintilla of objectivity towards President Obama, the extreme animus against him must be the result of a כח אחר מעורב בו. And, even though you’re too much of a coward to admit what that כח אחר is, the term racist reeks all over you and your unenlightened kind! Try reading Post #13 by Elliot who states:
“Particularly the so-called “heimishe” element — is a nest of racism and bigotry, with nothing but hate for anyone outside its dalod amos.”
So, tell me Cletus, are you asking the lunatic who posted above that the blood of Islam runs through the President’s veins for proof of his statement? Of course not! No respectable racist needs an open objective mind, does he?
When everything, and I mean everything without exception, the President or his wife says or does meets with disapproval, that’s called an עול במשפט, or plainly put, in this case rabid racism, something the likes of you could never comprehend!
Someone has to help this poor woman learn how to dress in a classy, dignified way…
#9
To say that Islam runs Obama’s vein isn’t racism; it’s the fact. You should know that Muslims go by the father’s side. He also may not openly say; but he’s written that he sides with his Muslim brothers and their prayer was the most beautiful he’s seen.
To say that isn’t racism.
Also, there are all kinds of people out there and good Muslims…
Yet, his anti-Israel attitude speaks clear.
You are bashing a baseless racism rant. Please, open your eyes; instead of accusing others. This is typical left wing people just ones that bash Israel and side with suspicious types.
To all the היימישער Bigots:
So, my posts really upset you all, don’t they? Well, that’s the point! You’re all still a bunch of miserable cowards who are incapable of admitting to your racism. At least there are two other open minded posters here (#11 and #13 ), the latter having truthfully stated:
“Far from being a light unto the nations or even just a nice little religious community that others can admire, the frum velt — particularly the so-called “heimishe” element — is a nest of racism and bigotry, with nothing but hate for anyone outside its dalod amos.”
So, go sit with the Baggers (KKK), who are now Judenrein with the expulsion of the House Majority Leader, who hate you just as much as they hate other minorities. I’m sure you’re all proud of aligning with what your own Bobby Jindal referred to as ‘The Stupid Party’! You’re all still a gaggle of hopeless racist cowards!