Michelle Obama recently spoke of her experiences feeling invisible because of her race, even as first lady, on The Michelle Obama Podcast -- telling listeners about a time a white woman cut in front of her and her children at an ice cream store. Of the incident, Obama said, “[she] didn’t apologize, she never looked me in my eye, she didn’t know it was me. All she saw was a Black person, or a group of Black people, or maybe she didn’t even see that. Because we were that invisible.”
The former first lady has continued working for the American people and taken a vocal role in the fight against systemic racism in the White House, GOP voter suppression, and Trump’s failure to protect the American people during a public health crisis.
Through her Civic Cities initiative, Michelle Obama is teaming up with dozens of mayors across the country -- with the goal of safely increasing voter participation for as many Americans as possible in advance of an historic election.
Obama has said she is fighting back against the “lack of empathy, the division stoked in times of crisis, and the age-old and systemic racism that’s been so prominent this summer” in Trump’s America. But 45% of Republicans disagree with Michelle, saying racism isn’t a very big problem -- do you stand with our former first lady? Tell us now:
