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Former First Lady Michelle Obama is opening up about the pressures of playing it straight.

The mother of two, 58, revealed how she felt Americans werent ready for her natural hair as they were still getting adjusted to having a black first family in the White House.

She made made the revelation during an onstage chat with interviewer Ellen DeGeneres in Washington, DC,earlier this week, the Independent reported.

She noted how she kept her mane straight as can be while living in la Casa Blanca.

While promoting her new book, The Light We Carry, the best-selling author recalled how she decided: Let me keep my hair straight.

Lets get health care passed [first]. They tripped out when Barack wore a tan suit, she added, recalling the controversy then-President Barack Obama, 61, faced in 2014 when he sported the outfit.

The great indignity, the scandal of the Obama administration, she quipped. The code of ethics at a workplace, as black women we deal with it, the whole thing about, Do you show up with your natural hair?

She even spoke about the instances when she would joke with her staff about changing up her look adding that they would get scared.

I would get my staff all worried, too. I was like, I was thinking about getting braids, Obama said.

Thats the African American experience but women in offices that are worried, Should I wear skirts? Should I wear pantyhose? I hate pantyhose.

The Chicago native continued: But when youre carrying all this other stuff, this mask, these differences and youre trying to do your job, its just an extra burden on overcoming.

She was also recently the guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbertto chat about her new book.

The book was her little COVID project, and is filled with methods she utilized to deal with the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

The goal from me, through this book, is to start a conversation, she explained to Colbert. We need to reconnect.

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1. Obama to campaign for Warnock on Dec. 1 before Ga. runoff  ABC News
2. Post Politics Now: Obama headed back to Georgia to campaign with Warnock  The Washington Post
3. Obama Heads Back to Georgia to Help Warnock in Senate Runoff  Bloomberg
4. Obama to hold Dec. 1 runoff rally for Warnock in Atlanta   The Atlanta Journal Constitution
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1. Obama: Democrats 'thumped' election deniers in key midterm races  CNN
2. Barack Obama and Trevor Noah Have a Heart-to-Heart on The Daily Show  Vanity Fair
3. Obama says voters learned lesson from 2010, 2014 midterms  The Hill
4. Barack Obama to Appear on 'The Daily Show With Trevor Noah' (EXCLUSIVE)  Variety
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1. Obama warns democracy 'may not survive' in Arizona if election deniers win  POLITICO
2. Recap: Barack Obama stumps for Kelly, Hobbs before midterms  The Arizona Republic
3. Former President Barack Obama rallies voters at Phoenix high school  Arizona's Family
4. Obama Rallies Democrats in Nevada, Warns of Threats to Democracy if Democrats Don't Win  The Wall Street Journal
5. Obama casts Arizonas midterm election as a fight to preserve democracy.  The New York Times
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Barack Obama acknowledged Democrats can be a buzzkill with their abstract campaign messaging and could better connect with voters by emphasizing what constituents feel in their day to day lives.

During an interview on Pod Save America, released Friday, Obama acknowledged that he used to get into trouble when he appeared too professorial, including by standing behind a lectern and talking about policy in theoretical ways that didnt directly connect with voters.

Thats not how people think about these issues, Obama said, less than a month before his party tries to hang on to control of both congressional chambers during the 8 November midterms. They think about them in terms of, you know, the life Im leading day to day. How does politics how is it even relevant to the things that I care most deeply about?

My family, my kids, work that gives me satisfaction, having fun, not being a buzzkill, right?

He added: And sometimes Democrats are, right? You know, sometimes, people just want to not feel as if they are walking on eggshells. And they want some acknowledgment that life is messy and that all of us at any given moment can say things the wrong way, make mistakes.

Obama went on to talk about his 86-year-old mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, whom he said was trying to learn the right phraseology to talk about issues. The former first lady Michelle Obama had said that was like trying to learn Spanish for her mother.

It doesnt mean she shouldnt try to learn Spanish, but it means that sometimes shes not gonna get the words right, the former president said. And thats OK, right?

And that attitude, I think, of just being a little more real and a little more grounded is something that I think goes a long way in counteracting what is the systematic propaganda that I think is being pumped out by Fox News and all these other outlets all the time.

Facing a slew of culture-war attack lines from Republicans, Democrats have sometimes become embroiled in their own debates over proper terminology, including the use of the term Latinx and defund the police. Democratic research from February found that voters could find the party preachy, judgmental, and focused on the culture wars, Politico reported.

Wokeness is a problem and everyone knows it, Democratic pundit James Carville, the former strategist for Bill Clinton, told Vox last year. Theres nothing inherently wrong with these phrases. But this is not how people talk.

This stuff is harmless in one sense, but in another sense its not.

Obamas comments came as Democrats are bracing to likely lose their majority in the US House while hoping that they can retain the Senate.

A recent New York Times/Siena poll found that 49% of likely voters said they would cast their ballot for a Republican candidate, compared to 45% for Democrats in congressional races. One of the most alarming findings for Democrats in the poll was the swing to Republicans among women who identified as independents. Last month, independent women backed Democrats by 14%, but the October poll found they now backed Republicans by 18%.

Overall, women were split 47% to 47% on whether they would support Democrats or Republican congressional candidates. Democrats had an 11-point advantage last month in the poll.

Im shifting more towards Republican because I feel like theyre more geared towards business, Robin Ackerman, a 37-year-old Democrat in New Castle, Delaware, told the New York Times.

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