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As part of her last televised interview (airing on CBS tonight), Michelle Obama was asked by Oprah Winfrey how she dealt with being maligned and dismissed as an angry, Black woman by the press early in Barack Obama‘s presidency. And before we get to her flawless answer (as if it would be anything else), can we just remark that if two of the most powerful people in the world have to deal with this mess, it just proves that bigotry doesn’t care who you are, only how it wants to make you feel.

And now, Michelle Obama:

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