Putting the Obamas in the White House also lifts up a new female role model for Black women: Michelle Obama. Michelle isn’t from a family with loot and wasn’t raised to land herself a rich man. She went to a fine college and has a wonderful education, but she earned her degrees the hard way, and she and her husband have only recently paid off their student loans. She’s a simple woman who has made a way for herself and her family through hard work and determination—nothing was inherited or handed to her. Michelle Obama’s background not only mirrors that of a lot of Black America, but of America in total. By setting down a high-charged career for motherhood, she seems counter to the feminist model of the successful woman. And in an era where the music video hoochie has risen to acclaim, Michelle is showing young women that you can get everything AND still keep your dignity. Michelle has put family first, and this, to many, signals a new day for the Black family. Maybe the Obamas can teach all of us, not just Black Americans, about the importance of family structure.

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President-elect Barack Obama and outgoing president George W. Bush met at the White House yesterday, and you know they didn’t talk sports. For Obama, it must be hard to come face to face with someone you have so roundly criticized but everyone’s taken shots at Bush, and my guess he’s just as happy to vacate the hot-seat as Obama is to take it. Their meeting was ‘off the record,’ meaning we don’t know exactly what they talked about, but there are no reports of headlocks or broken jaws, so we can probably guess it went as well as could be expected.

Like most people, I’m curious as to what they talked about—for Obama, the presidency is akin to taking a used car off somebody’s hands you know has all kinds of problems. There is a lot of talk afoot about Obama immediately rolling back some Bush policies. It’s hard to stop momentum, good or bad, once it’s started but God Bless him for trying, right?

We know that they did talk about what it would take to save the auto industry, and that’s all we know. I want to know if they talked about foreclosures, healthcare and practical matters about raising children in the White House. We know that Laura Bush and Michelle Obama had that conversation, but it seems like, dad to dad, Bush and Obama should have that talk, too. I think it’s a shame that we know so little of the First Meeting. What do you think?

What do you think Bush and Obama talked about?  What should they have talked about?

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