Michelle Obama Gets Frank About Women 'Leaning In': 'That Sh-t Doesn't Work All the Time'

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by Tamar Auber | Dec 2nd, 2018, 6:42 pm

Former First Lady Michelle Obama offered a candid assessment of the reality of trying to balance a marriage and a career and the idea of ‘leaning in.'”

“Marriage still ain’t equal, y’all. It ain’t equal. I tell women that whole ‘you can have it all’—mmm, nope, not at the same time,” Mrs. Obama said at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Saturday night. “That’s a lie. And it’s not always enough to lean in, because that shit doesn’t work all the time.”

The crowd erupted.

Mrs. Obama then said she forgot where she was a bit when she said “shit.”

As New York magazine noted, ‘leaning in’ is a strategy touted by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in her book Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead. The book encourages women to assert themselves more in the workplace and not voluntarily give up career advancement to make room for marriage and family roles.

Mrs. Obama, however, made it clear that doesn’t always work. What does work, she noted, was finding people that believe in her even if it doesn’t come from the places where you might expect it.

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1. "Lean in" for Sandberg apparently meant "sell out" the rest of us at the expense of her agenda...

whether it be the American people vis-a-vis Russian Facebook trolling/stealing the election or her hate-filled whisper campaign against Soros.

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3. Yep, she's not the one to follow. Glad he BS and facebook has been exposed.

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2. Michelle is so right. And then in the case of AAs and other POCs we have to...

maybe not "lean in" but "work around" the obstacles in our path—meaning the many who don't believe in us because of their unconscious, and in many cases, conscious racism.

This confronts African Americans and other POCs constantly in work and school situations and the more one develops the facility to work around it, as I said before, even to outsmart the racists, the better off you are.

And often times it has to be handled diplomatically to avoid repercussions and vindictiveness from those who place the obstacles in your career path.

It's called living while black in America (see BBQ Becky, Permit Patty, et al, not to mention all the police shootings of unarmed AAs like Bothan Jean and Philando Castile and countless others).