Michelle Obama recently sat down with Parade magazine in a short but wide-ranging interview about the significance of having the first African American in the White House.
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Children born in the last eight years will only know an African-American man being president of the United States. That changes the bar for all of our children, regardless of their race, their sexual orientation, their gender. It expands the scope of opportunity in their minds. And that's where change happens.
She also clarifies the controversial "single mother" remark she made back in April in a local TV news interview.
When you have a husband or a partner who's either traveling for work or has huge responsibility … and I give my husband credit — he knows who their friends are, he knows what their schedule is. But he's not making the calls to the dance studio to figure out what classes they're taking next year … I think it's important for both parents to shoulder that [responsibility]. I tell my kids, "I am thinking about you every other minute of my day."
Read more at Parade magazine.
Jozen Cummings is the author and creator of the popular relationship blog Until I Get Married, which is currently in development for a television series with Warner Bros. He also hosts a weekly podcast with WNYC about Empire called Empire Afterparty, is a contributor at VerySmartBrothas.com and works at Twitter as an editorial curator. Follow him on Twitter.
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