Why Michelle Matters a Little More to Me Than Barack
Jason Reed / Reuters
By creating her own space through her Let's Move! initiative and through her successful push to reform public school lunch nutrition guidelines, Michelle Obama repels low-flying bullets of sexism and racism and nabs haters with her intellect, ambition and courage. Not only does Michelle Obama resist stereotypical notions of Black womanhood, but she also subverts conventional notions of what the role of the First Lady should be and also how the FLOTUS is expected to look and behave.
