Am glad with what the Obamas have done. I can also understand why Michelle would have taken a back seat to let her husband follow a route where he would break barriers for black people in America.
Yes, she is a terrible feminist, who isn't? We all pick what we can handle and do to the best of our abilities. It takes a clever person to do that.
In terms of standing on shoulder of Hillary Clinton, I doubt that. She has criticised Hillary before. She looks at Hilary now as a better option to trump. A better example to her girls than trump. But is Hillary the best? I doubt that. In terms of paving the way as a group of women, her generation did.
For people criticising her role as housewife and taking a back seat, I thought feminist came in all different shapes and sizes.
I also, think she saw a potential in her husband even though sometimes she wanted them to give it up. Well potential to creat history. It's life changing not only to black men but the whole black community in general.
A lot of people look at feminism differently, if following her husband is the biggest crime. Then she is not a feminist, (in the worlds of piss taking Annie Lennox, "feminist lite").
However, for a lot of black girls and lots of girls of other races will see what she has achieved and how she has handled her self in public. She might not have been president, but to black feminist she has broken barriers, she has challenged opinions on what is to be a black woman by just being herself. That in itself is feminism. Other people might not see that because it's inconceivable to think that one person will be representative of a whole race and a group of women by just being in the spotlight. However, that is how most black women are seen.
According to the first black female to run for presidency in America, Shirley Chisholm, a feminist, a woman who fought for better welfare for women.
Once said that when she entered the room, they saw a woman first and her skin second. What I take from this in relation to Barack and Michelle and how they have worked the system to their advantage and benefited a race. The benefits might not be seen now in income, jobs and how people are treated. They have changed the potential of what black children can aim for.