What Michelle Can Teach Us

How nice of "Concerned Canadian" to tell US Americans what we know. Quit slandering good people and go play hockey or something!!!!

Eleanor, Ah, what a woman. What a leader.. You share Michelle with all little girls. She'll be listening to them. They need educations, without debt that rides them to the edge of every paycheck for years. WE have to put money into upgrade, baby. We didn't do upkeep too long. Teachers get no respect because they're paid so little. We do have a problem. It's not black or white. It's the place is falling down around our ears

I measure a person by how well they are able to evaluate and appraise a situation, a claim, or facts by utilizing critical thinking, rational inquiry, practical reasoning, and research methodologies. Anyone who "believes" that homo sapiens walked with the dinosaurs, that the earth is only 10,000 years old or was supernaturally "created" in 6 days, obviously cares more about defending "magical thinking" than bona fide fact-finding or being completely honest with one's self. It is for this reason that Michelle Obama is a far greater "role model" than Sarah Palin will ever be, disregardless of either their sex or the color of their skin. Intellectual honesty and the willingness to seek out what's 'real' will trump narrow doctrine and superstition every time.

Michelle could indeed have a profound effect on this country, I am a 65YO white male who wept when I saw the 2005 remake by a New York high school student of "Bad doll Good doll" Perhaps more importantly is the fact there was no change from the original study done in the 1940's.
To a very large extent we still live in a world where many believe,the value of a black person is to be used as a lab rat while studying the slow death of syphillis. And are shocked by the resulting anger shown by someone like Rev Wright.

I will be as proud to have Michelle as first lady and I would have been to have Hillary as President.
These women are the best of the best and our image throughout the world will profit. We have come a long way ! Michelle is intelligent, elegant, capable and a role model for what is best in women. I can not understand those who put Sarah P. in the same category. If Michelle had the same biography as Sarah , she would have been the laughing stock of the right as representative of the stereotypical black woman.
I am gratified and filled with joy to think we will have Michelle as first lady. Anne

This is an excellent piece. The author's intent specifically identifies the stereotypical role to which many choose to relegate Black females; but it does not exclude the case that Michelle can make for all women.
What her article insists upon is that Michelle be accepted as a real-life role model and that she be taken seriously as a Black female making the long overdue case for Black women while representing all women.

Charming, whitty, intelligent, devoted to her family, truly down to earth always remembering where her roots are planted...what more could Americans want? I certainly look up to her and would be proud to have my two adolescent girls do the same. I see substance in Michelle Obama.
She WILL be a wonderful first lady!
Obama/Biden '08

This article is meant to continue to keep this country divided. All of these comments bashing Michelle Obama because THE AUTHOR of this article decided to label Michelle Obama as a role model for black women. I wish Samuels would have referred to the acknowledgment that Michelle Obama gave that her daughters were inspired by Hillary Clinton for running for president. To all non-white people: You will NEVER know how it is to be black. You will NEVER have stories told to you by your grand parents and great grand parents about being slaves. My grandmother told me a story about her mother when she was hit so hard in her head that she heard bells by her boss because she fell asleep while rocking their baby. I cringe and become saddened each time I think about how she must have felt. Yes, we have come a long way, buy we have much further to go. I don't blame anyone for what happened in the past. But, I think that many people, black, white, asian, native american and all, could benefit from some cultural education. Like it or not, we all have to live in this world together. And like it or not, Barack Obama is black and should he win, will be the President of the United States for ALL people.

I thought Dr. Rice in the present administration is an excellent role model as well. I am surprised that it is thought this is the first black female role model. Role models can be republican or democrat. They can be married or single. I think we should value their ethics, citizenship, character and patriotism. I welcome her as a great role model for all but there are others as well.

I'm sorry to say that no matter how much education, articulation, and intelligence Michelle has and demonstrates, the majority will see her dark skin and blackness. If Obama wins, the hidden will become overt. Already people are slinging fear tactics and some are brazonly displaying their limitations of what Blacks can or should do in their white world. I don't know if she will my daughters' role model, but I see her a woman who doesn't stand with lips abd teeth frozen in silent worship of male deity. I see her as person who in her own right found a place where she calls her own. Maybe that's intimidating for most people, but it's afforming for some.

I am a white man and I have a white daughter, and Michelle Obama will be a great role model for her. What does this have to do with race? She is a career woman that has held together a family through what must be the most trying of circumstances! Barak is a very lucky man! Tuesday night/Wednesday morning will be a milestone in US history, diametrically opposed to what happened in 2000 and 2004. I too, am again proud of America

The title of the article is stupid! Mrs. Obama would be a good role model period. She is a woman, and any woman who identifies with her in any way may call her a role model. She has had some misteps but I believe that she is growing and learning through this experience as well and will blossom into the kind of first lady that we can all be proud of. Michell Obama-Role Model-Period!

She would not only be a role model for Black women but for ALL women. She is a woman period; regardless of her color. The article is stipid-period!

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Hey look this is really serious, its no longer about oooh Sarah Palin sounds sooo dumb, or McCain is just like Bush. Read what he said. He wants a civilian security force. Imagine if he gets elected, and the democrats control congress. What happens when he gets a bill passed by congress to create this civilian military force? How will he fill this army of 250,000 people. Will he implement a draft? Are you guys still certain Obama is the man we need to bring "Change"????????????????

Thank you for this article. The African-American Women that I see in the media are not the same African -American women that I know in my friendships. Let's hope that Ms. Obama can be a role model for every woman, black or white, latino or asian, not just because her husband is in the White House, but because of the intelligent, strong woman she is.