14 The Hampton Roads Messenger Michelle Obama FROM PAGE 2
I encourage you, at some point dur- ing this campaign season, to drive, fly or run to see her. I am the last person to trot out the overused term #Black- GirlMagic, but there is something im- mensely captivating and awe-inspir- ing when you see FLOTUS enter the room. As she walked onstage, dressed in electric blue, I looked at the crowds sitting next to me on either side, and they all sat up in their seats as if their favorite teacher or aunt, or most re- spected mentor or boss, had come into the room. And when she spoke, the words that Michelle Obama brought to the audience were the perfect bridge between the angry Sanders supporters and the establishment Democrats who were already in for Hillary.
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teaching Sasha and Malia to be and do better than their father’s haters, the room was filled with cheers. I only heard one disparate voice from the back corner, and it wasn’t clear that it was a chant or a jeer, just a loud voice. Black folk, white folk, Asian folk, Arab folk and everybody else were not here for any Michelle Obama shade. I seriously believe that had anyone tried to disrupt FLOTUS’s speech, a few thousand people would have curb- stomped the words “I’m with her” into the heckler’s face. If there is any ques- tion about the universality with which Michelle Obama is lauded and loved, you only had to look at Twitter. Spe- cifically Donald Trump’s timeline. He had slander to share about Sen. Cory Booker, Warren and Sanders. Not a peep about Michelle Obama. Even
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Donald Trump knows with whom he can’t pick a fight. As I watched the speech, I found myself welling up, something that has happened to me only once before in my years of reporting and analyzing politics. Not thug tears, not tears of joy. I had those tears you cried when you were 7 years old and your mom dropped you off for summer camp and you realized you weren’t going to see her again all summer. Those tears. The first lady’s words about liv-
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South Side of Chicago who gives us representation and catharsis and hope and optimism and visibility like Mi- chelle Obama? Never again.
ing in a house built by slaves where now her girls play with dogs on the White House lawn were more than just a generational come-up story. It was a narrative that I will never hear again for the rest of my life as an Ameri- can. We are not likely to get another black woman in the White House like Michelle Obama. Oh, we might get a black vice president and his wife. We might get some white man with a black or racially ambiguous wife liv- ing in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But a working-class black woman from the
my convention hotel to grab break- fast at the Cracker Barrel a few blocks down the street. A waitress and I got to chatting about both conventions and she asked me what I thought. I men- tioned all the policy-neutral differenc- es between the RNC and the DNC, the kind of thing you say to give people the comfort and freedom to share their be- liefs. However, this middle-aged white woman in her Cracker Barrel apron and plaid shirt was having none of that: “Did you see Michelle Obama’s speech? She is amazing. That is one classy lady. No matter what.” I just smiled and nodded in
agreement. Michelle Obama is a classy lady, and the only one we’ll ever see who makes us feel proud, validated and confident all at once. I just wish it wasn’t so bittersweet to watch her last hurrah.
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