Every month, I will feature a person in my blog who I feel has impacted society in a positive manner. For the month of November 2009, I have chosen Michelle Obama, first Black First Lady of the United States.
From the Chicago Tribune:
First Lady Michelle Robinson Obama was born in Chicago in 1964. After finishing high school, she graduated from Princeton in 1985 with a B.A. in sociology.
She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1988, and began her law career at Sidley and Austin, a Chicago firm where she met her husband Barack Obama.
Michelle Obama served as associate dean of students at the University of Chicago starting in 1996. In 2002, she took the position of executive director for community affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals.
She was named Vice President for Community and External Affairs in 2005.
Michelle Obama is the mother of two children, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7.
Michelle is the epitome of intelligence, grace, class and is a representation of real Black womanhood. Like Michelle, I am an educated 40-something Black woman born and raised on the south side of Chicago, IL.
Michelle represents myself and most of the women I grew up with and know now -- strong and intelligent, warm and wonderful women: good mothers, loyal and loving wives, and consummate professionals.
Yet, the women that I speak of and that Michelle represents are very rarely seen and heard from in modern media. All too often, we see the parade of loud, uneducated, overweight, mother to multiple children by multiple men, financially struggling, unable to maintain stable relationships with men, as the the constant portrayal of Black womanhood in current television shows and movies.
And it's a shame, because while that component of Black women does exist, it's not ALL we are.Not even CLOSE.
It is my hope that as more people come to see the beauty and strength that is Michelle obama, more and more of us can come out of the shadows and into the forefront in the minds and hearts of the media and America.
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