Michelle Obama - She Has a Dream: London Times

Quoted via London Times:

The teenager had a to-the-point question for Michelle Obama. “I wanted to know, like, why did you want to come out here to meet us?” The query came at the end of a visit by the first lady to Mary’s Center, a Washington-based health clinic founded in 1988 to serve mothers and tots recently arrived from Latin America. Today the centre provides everything from prenatal care to adult-literacy programmes to 14,000 families — many of them new immigrants, all struggling financially.

America's First Lady Michelle Obama and daughter MaliaIn an economically and culturally mixed neighbourhood two miles north of the White House, the centre isn’t exactly a hot spot for tourists, much less the political elite. But a dozen or so teens from its after-school programme had been assembled in one of the classrooms — blue, plastic-and-chrome chairs drawn into a large, loose circle — for a friendly chat with one of the globe’s shiniest political stars. “Why?” seemed a reasonable enough question.

Mrs Obama, looking impressively comfortable in the small, hard-backed chair and radiating her characteristic casual chic — dark-grey trousers; fitted, cream jersey tied at the neck; twin green-jewelled, bow-shaped brooches flanking her neckline; smooth hair; enveloping smile — had clearly given the matter some thought:

“Well, a whole bunch of reasons. Number one, this is the best part of my day, you know, really, short of being with my own kids. I was raised to believe when you get, you give back. more