EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Obama’s mother was worried about her daughter marrying a biracial manPosted in Articles, Barack Obama, Biography, Media Archive, United States on 2015-03-23 00:36Z by Steven |
EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Obama’s mother was worried about her daughter marrying a biracial man
The New York Daily News
2015-03-18
Long before Michelle Obama became First Lady, her mother had misgivings about her marrying a young man named Barack Obama — because he was biracial.
In a Chicago TV interview that aired during Obama’s 2004 U.S. Senate campaign — and newly resurrected by Michelle Obama biographer Peter Slevin in a book due out next month — Marion [Marian] Robinson confessed to being “a little bit” wary about her future son-in-law being the product of a white mom and black dad.
But it could’ve been worse, according to Robinson…
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