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Michelle Obama Recalls How She Experienced Racism When She Was First Lady

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Michelle Obama is opening up about her experiences with racism. On the latest episode of , the 56-year-old former first lady and her longtime friends, Kelly Dibble, Denielle Pemberton-Heard, Sharon Malone, talked about facing racism in their lives.«What the white community doesn't understand about being a person of color in this nation is that, there are daily slights,» Obama said. «In our workplaces, where people talk over you, or people don't even see you.»Obama went on to describe one such slight that occurred with Pemberton-Heard when she was first lady, a role she held from 2009 to 2017 when her husband, Barack Obama, was president.«We had just finished taking the girls to a soccer game.

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