and say i love you and i m glad it wasn t you that died. and it really hurts because, you know, i haven t seen her in so long and i can t wait to see her because she was my daughter and my best friend. john, you know, i spent a lot of time with freddie, her son, michelle s brother. and that whole family dynamic is a very tough situation. they allege a lot of abuse over the years and a lot of neglect. and so, you know, the question is that now when michelle does get released from the hospital, where is she going to go. but, you know, a side note which is very positive is that the family of the dejesus has spent a lot of time with her at the hospital, with michelle, and they say she s also in very good spirits and looking forward to her release. we are all looking forward to that release. zoraida in cleveland, thank you so much. another major story we re following this morning,
there s something about the realities of same-sex love and making a family in ways that are non-traditional and i wonder if it s used as a weapon against the non-traditional family. i think there s a particular strategy the obama family themselves are deploying. they are staving off an old school narrative of black pathology. the kind of deadbeat dad, obama articulated a position against. also embodies i feel like they are the living version of the cosby fiction or the kind of bad, black mother that michelle is staving off the stereo types. in terms of other issues gender and sexuality intersection, we could open the conversation beyond the obama family structure. it is the father and the mother. i think there s equality in the
laura, byron and victoria. i gotta tell you, i forget president obama likes michelle. i think it s powerful. it sends a powerful message to a lot of people, especially black people, black women who love the iconography of the first family. i know so many people who post pictures and tweet and have physical pictures in their home of the first family because they resinate for people. it is aspirational. people long to have that kind of, sort of happy household that the obama s seem to have. it s part of what becomes problematic. our saying is we are not the obama s, right? it took us two marriages to get together. we have a step kid and it s just messier. we want to embrace that.
her death changed her forever. but what is it to a mother? yesterday first lady michelle obama attended her funeral. this has become routine for the evening news but never mundane for those who lose their beloved. this is preventible. american children do not have to die when standing in parks near their homes. parents do not have to wonder when you send them to school in the morning, whether they ll return at night. the president wrote to her fami family. michelle and i want you to know how sad we are about hidea s
private sphere. he s president of the united states and she s first lady. they are not equal jobs. i have heard her say it s partly the picture does not reflect their family. yeah. the iconography of it. what it takes to keep a family together and in work when crisis hits. what it takes to keep that family together is for some reason, never in the pictures. michelle s brother, craig. the family is not the foursome. i wish we would see change. it s removed from reality. divorce rates are at 50%. it s about the mom and the family now. looking at our past presidents, how many of our past presidents, with the exception of ronald reagan had been divorced?