{"id":7537,"date":"2014-12-19T12:11:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T12:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7537"},"modified":"2014-12-19T12:11:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T12:11:42","slug":"racism-or-mistaken-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7537","title":{"rendered":"Racism, or mistaken identity?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Take a look at the picture of first lady Michelle Obama attached to this blog post.<\/p>\n

It shows her shopping at Target in 2011. She’s dressed casually, with a ball cap and sunglasses. The first lady said during a “highly publicized” shopping excursion, the only person who talked to her was a woman who asked her to take something off a shelf.<\/p>\n

The first lady used that encounter as an example of the racism she and her husband, the president, have experienced over many years.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2014\/12\/17\/michelle-obama-i-was-asked-to-get-something-off-the-shelf-at-target\/<\/p>\n

I guess my confusion is rooted in a single question: Would I have recognized this woman as the first lady of the United States had I seen her pushing a shopping cart through a mid-level department store?<\/p>\n

I’m not so sure.<\/p>\n

The only giveaway that she is a very important person would be the presence of security personnel wearing ear pieces, dark suits and perhaps handguns bulging from the side of their jackets.<\/p>\n

Yeah, that would tip me off that she’s the first lady.<\/p>\n

There can be zero doubt that President and Mrs. Obama have felt slights — large and small — growing up in the United States. They are laying some of that experience out in a lengthy People magazine interview. It is wrong for it to have\u00a0happened in any context … ever!<\/em><\/p>\n

However, I am a bit puzzled by the example cited by the first lady.<\/p>\n

The only thing I can figure is that the Secret Service agents were keeping a considerable distance away when the woman asked the first lady for some help.<\/p>\n

Am I wrong to think this?<\/p>\n

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Take a look at the picture of first lady Michelle Obama attached to this blog post. It shows her shopping at Target in 2011. She’s dressed casually, with a ball cap and sunglasses. The first lady said during a “highly publicized” shopping excursion, the only person who talked to her was a woman who asked … Continue reading Racism, or mistaken identity?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[540,3043,3545,3808],"class_list":["post-7537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-michelle-obama","tag-people-magazine","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}