\u201cLook At me And Adore me.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThat\u2019s what the First Lady said to her husband, the President, as they greeted a standing room only crowd at the White House, March 8, for Women\u2019s International Day. When he gave her a look, she said, \u201cSincerely, look at me adoringly.\u201d He responded with a smile, \u201cI do adore you.\u201d There was a collective sigh in the audience. We all want a man who adores us. We want him to look at us and utter those pleasing words.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the picture perfect love that the Obamas exude whenever you see them together. At one point during the program\u00a0the President casually put his arm around his wife while they were sitting and scored another one for how to love a Black woman.<\/p>\n
Today is International Women\u2019s Day and I\u2019m Nisa Muhammad the newly assigned Washington Correspondent for the Michelle Obama Watch Blog. What a great job! I got to go to the White House today.<\/p>\n
I waited in line with the rest of the press corps,<\/p>\n
walked past the west wing, and made my way to the waiting area with the rest of the reports and photographers. I immediately noticed the step stools. What were they for? I didn\u2019t have one. Were they for sitting down? There definitely weren\u2019t any seats where we were waiting. Step stools?<\/p>\n
Then it was time to go in and the mad dash took off. The wire service press corps always go in first. But since I just so happened to be sitting on the very steps they use, there I was, going with crowd, going in with them…in the front! So off we go into the White House but we have to remain behind the golden rope.<\/p>\n
The royal… er… Presidential couple and their guests were like part of a museum exhibit. If I had a step stool like the others, I could have had a better view and taken better camera shots. It didn\u2019t matter though, because I was there and I did see Cynthia Gordon who blogs about the First Family for Essence. Mostly everyone else was a photographer or part of a camera crew.<\/p>\n
The afternoon was a who\u2019s who of Black women. Social Secretary Desiree Rogers, in her last days on the job, was there taking care of business.<\/p>\n
In attendance were Dr. Beverly Tatum, President of Spelman College, Civil Rights icon Dr. Dorothy Height, several members of the Congressional Black Caucus, former Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman, and actress Kerry Washington who was the emcee for the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Mrs. Obama spoke about the progress of women and girls. And guess what, when the President spoke he looked at Mrs. Obama and said, \u201cI\u2019m very sincere when I look at you adoringly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Believe it or not someone asked me if this blog was for stalkers. \u201cStalkers!?\u201d <\/strong>I said,\u00a0 “We don\u2019t stalk the First Lady. We just report and keep you informed.”<\/p>\nIf you ever get the chance please go the White House. It\u2019s a great place to see the Obamas up close and in person and they definitely look better in person than in the media.<\/p>\n
Melanie Campbell, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Inc, described the afternoon as \u201cincredible\u201d and \u201cindicative of Michelle Obama\u2019s leadership\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nThis was my first White House assignment. It was great. Check back later for more to come. This is Nisa Muhammad and I am your eyes and ears in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n
Yesterday First Lady Michelle Obama celebrated International Women\u2019s Day at the White House. Since 1911 International Women\u2019s Day has celebrated the economic, political, and social achievements of women in the past, present, and future. It seemed only fitting that we usher in a new era of Michelle Obama Watch by making blogosphere history and sending […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5788,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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