Michelle Obama: America will be viewed differently with a black president

Michelle Obama

"Inequality is not a burden we have to accept, it is a challenge we must overcome," she said, explaining that she herself overcame "voices of doubt and fear" about her race to now accept the challenge of possibly becoming first lady.

"I'm asking to stop settling for the world as it is, and to help us make the world as it should be," she said.

Would Barack Obama as President heal America's racial issues?

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that kinda sends shivers up my spine, no matter who says it


I do wonder if all those who whined about Hillary supposedly using the gender card will react the same way now that the Obama campaign has evidently decided to use the race card?

or the gender card.

Saying that a woman president, or a black president, would be significant is just a fact. If Obama was playing the race card, he would say something like "they are all attacking me because I'm black".

White folks can reference race all they want. They can analyze whether a black man can be elected president and whether Obama is really black. They can conduct polls about whether black people will vote for a black man, whether white people will vote for a black man, whether Obama is black enough for black people or too black for white people. And then they can sit around discussing this amongst themselves (for example, on talk show after talk show after talk show where they pontificate about what Obama's race means to the race, what it means to black people and how we will and should respond - without a black face anywhere in camera range).

But black people can't talk about race, regardless of the context. Whenever we do, we're "playing the race card."

Get it?