Public number: Edge Cooper
Obama and Michelle have been very busy recently.
In 2008, as the first black president of the United States, Obama entered the White House with the slogan "Yes, we can" and determination to change.
Twelve years later, even though the two have left the White House for many years, the controversy and lights surrounding them have never been extinguished-this seems to confirm what Michelle said when asked how it felt to return to normal life Words: I am not returning to my previous life, but creating a new life.
Previously, Obama criticized Trump's unfavorable anti-epidemic. Trump shook off Obamagate, claiming that it was a political crime worse than the Watergate Incident-but it could not stop Obama from showing up in the 2020 online graduation speech.
Later, a documentary with the same name as Michelle's new book "Becoming"/Becoming was launched on Netflix, focusing on his tour of propagating "Becoming" and self-seeking in the post-White House era, which attracted a lot of attention.
The post-White House era of the two has a different kind of excitement. Today, let's talk about Michelle.
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"I came from the top position to tell every young man that even if you are poor or in a working class, people say you don't belong here regardless of your skin color. Don't listen to them. They don't even know how they got here. "
Michelle's autobiography "Become" is divided into three parts: Be me, be us, and be more .
When Michelle Robinson was a little girl, her world was limited to Chicago South City. At that time, their family rented a small apartment on the second floor. Life is simple but spiritually rich.
However, the Goddess of Destiny made her own arrangements. With excellent grades, she studied at Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and successfully entered the law firm. When she stood in front of the company’s floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Lake Michigan, she suddenly realized that her previous life in poverty was no longer there. Farther and farther away from yourself.
Ivy League, a high-level law firm, has achieved half of its success in terms of secular definition, and life has been going on smoothly.
But she felt tighter.
Even with such hard work, hard work, and desperate filling of the timetable, the speed of the heart's burning can't be achieved.
She began to wonder, is this broad road that everyone wants to stand on, really what she wants?
At this time, the second part of the book quietly began. A law intern named Obama appeared in her law firm, breaking all the meticulous planning of her life, and giving her a new life in disillusionment.
"Become me" Michelle began to move towards the future of "become us":
Started a charity business from working in a law firm, and a daughter was born;
To help Obama all the way from the Senator to the throne of the White House, as the first lady;
After leaving the White House, continue to pay attention to the bigger world and more people.
For her, “becoming” does not mean that you must reach a certain position or achieve a certain goal; on the contrary, “becoming” should be a state of progress, a state of evolution, and a state of continuous improvement. The perfect path to self-struggle has no end.
After "becoming us", she can become more.
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"Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is a lawyer, writer, and the wife of the 44thPresident, Barack Obama. She was the first African-American First Lady of the United States. Through her four main initiatives, she has become a role model for women and an advocate for healthy families, service members and their families, higher education, and international adolescent girls education."
I watched Variety’s film review on Michelle’s documentary a few days ago and it was interesting to mention one point.
A detailed introduction to the 42 first ladies of the United States can be found on the official website of the White House. The most frequently used phrase at the beginning is "XXX is the wife of President XXX". For example, "Mary Ann Todd Lincoln is the wife of the 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln. Except for Hillary Clinton, who has held public office, there are few exception.
But this is not Michelle's.
"Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is a lawyer, writer, and wife of the 44th President Barack Obama."
Lawyer first, writer second and then wife.
First, the lawyer, the writer, and then the wife.
And like this introduction, she always insisted on herself and never changed.
Whether it was during the campaign stage or later in the White House career, as a black woman, her words and deeds would be paid special attention or over-interpretation.
In the documentary, she calmly reviewed Fox News and other media portraying her as an "angry black woman", and even the fist with Obama was distorted as a "terrorist meeting."
In the face of these ugly and slander, she bluntly spoke about the bitterness of being slandered by her speech. She also tried to hide herself, reduce her casual speech and use the inscription version of her speech, but in the end she found her own way of expression: "When they go low, we go high"
At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, Michelle uttered her famous slogan.
"When they go lower, we go higher."
This sentence quickly became popular, and even in the presidential debate a few months later, even Hillary Clinton himself used it to defend himself in response to Trump's attack.
In a conversation with Oprah, Michelle said: "It's easy to go lower. That's why people choose it."
"For me, what I learned from my husband, what I learned in the eight years in the White House, is that in this world, our responsibility in it is much greater than our own. When I want to go down, I am dominated by the ego in my heart. But this is not the solution to any problem, it is just for revenge for what happened to us."
Although Trump tried to overturn most of the bills in the Obama era after he came to power, being a good predecessor is like death.
But fortunately, with peers, Obama’s eight years under the rose-colored nostalgic filter omitted the bumps of the two parties and the endless disputes over health insurance and citizenship, like the phrase "When they go low, we The slogan "go high" is the same, which is more decent and gentle.
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She was lucky along the way.
From sitting in a small kitchen in Iowa and chatting with voters, to having the honor to walk into the stone castle to face the queen.
Even if she steps down as the first lady, she always tries to influence more people, especially the younger generation, because she believes that there are countless possibilities in them, and these may not be concealed by race or class.
Finally, share the last paragraph of "Become".
" I always remember every door opened for me on the road of life, and try my best to give back to the latecomers in the same way. Finally, what I want to say is: let us encourage everyone around us, let us Everyone joins in. Only in this way will the fear in my life become less and less, and the possibility of us making wrong assumptions will also become less and less; let us abandon the prejudices and stereotypes in life that separate us alive, In this way, perhaps we can better appreciate what we have in common.
We don’t ask for perfection, and it doesn’t matter where you end up going. We just hope that one day, you can gain understanding, be listened to, and you can have your own unique story and make your own true voice.
Similarly, if you can actively understand and listen to others, it will undoubtedly be a kind of compassion. In my opinion, this is who we really want to be. "
Your life is finally back in your hands. Let's start the next chapter, Michelle.
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