Former First Lady Michelle Obama says she and former President Barack Obama were “held to higher standards” because they are black.
She made the remarks during an upcoming interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America,” set to air Sunday morning.
“You said we were all too aware that as a first black couple, we couldn’t afford any missteps,” the interviewer asked. “And you also say as a black woman, I was under a particularly white, hot glare. Did you feel that?”
“For sure,” Obama replied. “You can’t afford to get anything wrong because you didn’t get the—at least until the country came to know us.”
“We didn’t get the grace that I think some other families have gotten,” she added.
