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Michelle Obama Reflects On Historic Day Of Marriage Equality And Charleston Shooting
One of the most emotionally-charged days of Barack Obama's presidency, as Michelle Obama reminisced, was June 26, 2015: hours after the...
In her Instagram post, Obama recounted the emotional whiplash following the landmark decision by the Supreme Court that guaranteed marriage equality, Obergefell v. Hodges. The remembrance took a dark turn as the then Obamas left for Charleston to grieve with families and friends of the nine Black persons massacred by a white supremacist at Emanuel AME Church. Briefly, she balanced the joy of marriage equality with the grief of racial violence; as a reminder of what many recognize as the lost era of presidential leadership able to hold the complex realities America is facing.
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