Michelle Obama: Black Lady of the White House.

Michelle Obama…the black lady of the White House.

She is likened to Jacqueline Kennedy, in terms of their zeal and handsomeness, in addition to her gentleness, intelligence and purity of language. On the other hand, she is blamed for her excessive frankness, irony and sometimes for prejudice. Besides, she was dubbed, in some of the conservative media agencies, as the “bitter half” of Illinois’s senator and “the lady of objections”.

“I am a different case, because I was a black girl, grew up in South Side (a poor neighborhood in Chicago)…..and I am not supposed to be here at all.”

The next American first lady always reiterated that she, at first, had reservations about her husband entering the White House contest, for she respects her family life. Yet, she gave the thumbs up on two conditions: Malia (ten years) and Sasha (seven years) shall see their dad once a week and that he should give up smoking. And he nodded.

It goes without saying that Michelle Obama gave her husband’s electoral campaign a great push; when she strongly declared to the various U.S media agencies and the masses that her husband would be “their unparalleled president”.

However, some, including many media agencies and Cindy McCain, the wife of the Republican candidate for the presidency, suspected her patriotism when she stated before a gathering of voters:”I am really proud of my country for the first time in my life.” And later she made clear: “Undeniably, I love my country. And I believe my story can only take place in America, nowhere else.”

Also, she is usually criticized about her way of talking of her husband, the president-elect who “snores”, “whose breath is repulsive in the morning”, and “who does not put his socks out for washing”. And this was the reply:”I am open and always make fun of my husband, who can handle a strong woman, this being one of the reasons behind his becoming a president.”

In fact, our lady does not intend to play a front line in the White House; she wants to be a mother after all. “I can talk with Barak about everything because I am his wife, not his political advisor.”

As for her early life, she was one of two children from a modest family, living in a house of two rooms in the poorest neighborhood in Chicago. Her father, Freizer Robinson, a public servant, had to work hard despite his dangerous illness (M.S), and so it was the responsibility of the mother, Marian, to raise the two kids.

She managed to join Brinston University and study Sociology. Her major concern was racial discrimination: How black students see the cultural and social structure of the white community and how they are drawn away from the whole community.

After Brinston, she went to study law at Harvard and afterwards worked as a lawyer in a business administration office in Chicago, where she met her would be husband. They always talk about their first date, saying that Michelle hesitated before accepting Barak’s invitation to the cinema.

After tying the knot in 1992, Michelle left the private sector to work in the municipality of Chicago, then in the academic hospital and has now become its vice president, in addition to being in charge of public relations.