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Monday, May 21, 2007 12:00 AM

Michelle Obama's sacrifice

It had to be hard for the high-achieving candidate's wife to give up her career -- and I'm in a feminist fury about it.
By Debra Dickerson

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  • Monday, May 21, 2007 09:35 AM

    Hold up.

    "Given the innate conservatism of the black community, the burden to tend to hearth and home falls disproportionately on its women, sending the message to ambitious black girls that they can't have both fulfilling careers and families."

    When did you decide Obama gets to be Black again? I can't keep up.

    —janinedm Read janinedm's other letters

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