Your resentments are showing.

Maybe the readers need to step back and concede that they have no idea what it is like to be an African-American woman in any socioeconomic echelon. Degrees from highly regarded white institutions did not ameliorate the "thousand little slights" that she likely experienced while living in a country whose major social challenge is RACE. She is not someone from means, having grown up in south side Chicago to working class parents.

Having Michelle as first lady might be a great opportunity for persons to see that they cannot project their own experience and perception of the American dream to everyone.