First lady Michelle Obama is challenging assertions she’s forcefully imposed her will on White House aides, saying she’s tired of people portraying her as “some kind of angry black woman.”
Mrs. Obama tells CBS News she hasn’t read New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor’s new book that characterizes her as a behind-the-scenes force in the Executive Mansion, whose strong views often draw her into conflict with President Barack Obama’s top advisers.
In the book, Mrs. Obama is said to have occasionally bristled at some of the demands and constraints of life in the White House.“I never read these books,” she told CBS’s Gayle King in an interview broadcast Wednesday. “So I’ve just gotten in the habit of not reading other people’s impressions of people.”In the interview, Mrs. Obama said, “I love this job. It has been a privilege from day one.”
Watch the interview with Michelle with Gayle King on CBS show.
“Now there are challenges,” she added. “If there’s any anxiety that I feel, it’s because I want to make sure that my girls (Malia and Sasha) come out of this on the other end whole.”
“That’s been an image people have tried to paint of me since the day Barack announced, that I’m some kind of angry black woman.”
There will always be people who don’t like me,” Mrs. Obama added, and said she could live with that.
Courtesy of: BlackNews
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