Michelle Obama has a hypothesis on why Americans don’t trust politicians: they’re just too darned white!
Speaking at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women, the former First Lady addressed the issue of diversity in politics, saying, “We should be working actively to mix it up, so we’re getting a real broad range of perspectives on every issue. Shoot, I would see that in Congress.”
Mrs. Obama brought up sitting at in the House of Representatives chamber for the State of the Union Address, while her husband was speaking: “When you are in the room what you can see is this real dichotomy,” she said, referring to the two parties sitting on opposite sides of the room.
“It’s a feeling of color almost,” she said. “On one side of the room is literally gray and white. Literally, that is the color palette on one side of the room. On the other side of the room, there are yellows and blues and whites and greens. Physically, there’s a difference in color, in the tone, because on one side all men, all white, on the other side some woman, some people of color.”
She added, “I look at that, and I go, no wonder. No wonder we struggle, no wonder people don’t trust politics. We’re not even noticing what these rooms look like.”
She continued, “If people haven’t had the experience of being other and out, and you are trying to fix the problem of those folks, it’s hard to come up with the right answer when you haven’t lived it.”
AAN Staff
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