The Obamas: Weve Been Racially Mistreated Despite their position in the White House, Barack and Michelle Obama have been known to describe the racial hardships they have had to face. Time and time again, theyve used public speaking engagements to offer their views on racial bias in Amereica. Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs, Michelle told People magazine in an interview. She went on to describe a particular instance when Barack was wearing a tuxedo at a black-tie dinner and was asked to bring coffee to a guest. President Obama himself has described incidents of being mistaken for the helpmore specifically, a valet. Theres no black male my age, whos a professional, who hasnt come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didnt hand them their car keys, Obama said in an interview. Even as the first lady, during the wonderfully publicized trip I took to target, not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf, Michelle told People, concluding that such instances are the regular course of life for African-Americans in the United States. What do you think of the Obamas stories of racial intolerance? 