How Does Michelle Obama Say Public People Cover Up Being Sensitive?

Michelle Obama tells Conan O'Brien that famous people cover sensitivity by trading stories for stats. In Los Angeles the question is what you drive, a Lexus or a Tesla, and elsewhere it is what school you attended or what title you hold. None of that, she says, tells you who someone is. The telling memories are smaller: what you watched as a child, what your grandfather was like, the relative who frustrated you, when you first fell. She remembers not being able to spell the word white in kindergarten, and a friend asking why she talked like a white girl, a line people still say. Those stories show the insecurity public life trains people to leave out.