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

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From the episode: 18. Michelle Obama

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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.

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