Reprinted from Amy Ridenour's National Center for Public Policy Research Blog at http://ift.tt/MxPcGx. In a new interview with People magazine, Barack and Michelle Obama claim that, in the words of interviewer Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, “their encounters with racial prejudice aren’t as far in the past as one might expect.” As examples, Barack Obama claimed that “[t]here’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” because they thought dressed-up black men such as Obama were valets. Michelle Obama added a story that “somebody asked him to get coffee” when he wore a tuxedo at a formal dinner. Michelle Obama herself discussed being asked to reach something from a high shelf for someone while she was shopping at a suburban Washington, D.C. Target store, saying: “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.
Read more about Obamas' Comments on Race in People Magazine "Just Reckless"
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