In the midst of a flap about Washington Post pop-fashion writer Robin Givhan getting kicked out of a Black Entertainment Television conference for violating confidentiality, we learn something new about the Real Michelle Obama from Givhan’s reporting first spotted in a buried lede in a New York Post story:
“The garden was a subversive act,” she said. “You can’t go in with guns blazing until people trust you.”
The passage continues in the Givhan report in the Washington Post here:
And there could be no reprimanding. No finger-wagging. Because she knew that her finger-wagging, a black woman’s finger-wagging, would be both amplified and resented.
So she gave herself a bit of advice: Put down your finger and pick up the garden hoe. “What’s more innocent than a garden?” Mrs. Obama said.
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