Chapter 2: Becoming Us from me
In the first chapter "Becoming Me", Michelle Obama, through her own growth story, allows readers to better understand her family background, personality, and people she met with different backgrounds during her growth. The story of getting along with them. And in the second chapter "From I Become Us Becoming Us", after Michelle Obama put herself out of the society, whether it is focused on running a business or the challenges she encountered, she has met many young people in the United States. The same challenges she encountered, she shared her feelings when experiencing these setbacks, and how she came along afterwards.
As a former first lady of the United States, she devoted herself to charity before her husband was elected. She served as the executive director of the Chicago Chapter of the non-profit organization "Public Alliance Public Allies."
This NPO mainly recruits and gives talented young people, intensive training and dedicated guidance, and arranges them to carry out ten months of paid internships in community organizations and public institutions. The book has spent a lot of time sharing her in the public alliance What you do, and the sense of accomplishment you get.
The six major parts of "public interest image", "education issues", "social issues", "identity issues", "job opportunity issues", and "public figures and family issues" were all before Obama became president. Through stories after story, Cher strives to clean up misunderstandings about the family and her from the outside world, while letting readers know that she is also a mortal, and she is on the same front line with most people.
1. Don’t be at ease, work hard for what the world should be
One time Michelle and Obama helped an old friend who was engaged in community organization activities to host a training course at a black teacher in Roseland, Far South, Chicago. Observant, she knew that residents might not believe what this self-righteous outsider can do.
But through his own stories and the stories shared by Obama, Obama conveyed that by connecting with each other, dissatisfaction can be turned into useful things. Even small groups in small churches can have influence and can establish true formal forces. Of course, the ideas put forward by Obama are not easy to accept, but the article narrates a heart-wrenching dialogue.
Obama told me that the problem he most often solves is,
People are deeply trapped in depression, especially black people.
Over time, from countless small disappointments, a cynical attitude emerged.
I know this mentality. I have seen this mentality in my neighborhood and in my home.
That is a sense of speed, but also a false perception of belief...
After hearing Barak's words, I began to understand that his hope and vision far exceeded my expectations:
I realize that it is one thing to get myself out of trouble;
Trying to get this place out of trouble is quite another matter...
In the end, he concluded the speech with the strongest tone and tone.
He is not a missionary, but he must be promoting something, which is a vision.
He is asking us to invest. As he saw,
The choices people can make are:
Choose to give up, or choose to work hard without change.
"For us, what would be better?" Barak asked the people in the room like this.
"Are we going to choose to live in the current state of the world, or should we work hard for what the world should be?"...
It was at that moment that I realized that the motives that prompted Barak to do this were:
What this world should be.
Michelle and Obama did not say "Why don't you eat meat emulsion"? Emperor who doesn't understand the sufferings of the people, but a partner who has the same experience and frustration as everyone. They know that the current environment is not good, and that the people around them are deeply desperate, but this is not what the world should be like, everyone has the opportunity to make their own influence. During the process, you may encounter dozens or even hundreds of rejections, but you can make changes as long as you don't give up.
Not only do they communicate such ideas, they also hope to lead everyone to change and become a better leader.
Second, the sense of identity that multiracial Americans will encounter
After the engagement, the two, in addition to having already determined a new job, are also preparing for a holiday pilgrimage before work. They chose the capital of Kenya, "Nairobi."
It is undeniable that many people will have a specific established impression of ethnicity.
For example, Asian faces may be the first to guess Chinese, and white faces are American stereotypes. Michelle, who grew up in the United States as a black man, has been treated and struggling in the United States from childhood to age (see the childhood growth story mentioned in the first article), which made her naive to think that from childhood to most, she imagined the African continent. It is her own country, as if she can feel herself in Africa, but she is in Africa, but she finds that even though she has been waiting for a long time, she has not found her connection to this land of Africa.
However, Africa clearly did not give me a special feeling.
This fact is so strange, When African Americans arrive in Africa, they feel like they are caught in the middle, and they are nothing.
I burst into an indescribable sadness,
Whether on the American continent or the African continent, I feel like a rootless duckweed.
Since Trump became president, American immigration has been a national issue.
People who grew up in the United States are not necessarily considered to be Americans, but anyone who has been in the United States since birth from the United States wants him/her to "go back" to the country where the parents grew up or the grandparents grew up. For him/her, it's like being in a strange country without a common sense. Michelle conveyed that she is like the voice of more than half of the people in the United States. She is on the same side with these people. She understands them and she belongs to the same group.
Note: In 2017, 43.7% of US legal immigrants came from North America plus South Ameria, which means that 56.3% of American immigrants had similar growth mood.
3. The difference between finding a job and choosing a career
When President Trump of the United States elected at the time, one of his political opinions was to obtain a large number of votes in the saying of "bringing job opportunities back to the United States."
Young people seem to have many different kinds of job opportunities,
It's just that the young people are hesitant about not knowing where to go next.
Michelle also encountered the same situation.
Seemingly a smooth career, being a respected lawyer, and a well-known Chicago law firm that everyone admires. But because she met a college friend who died young at the age of 26, and her father died at the age of 55, she realized that her life was short and not to be wasted.
So Michelle wrote many letters of self-recommendation and took the initiative.
The point is not to find a new job,
But to expand my understanding of all possibilities and how other people experience such things.
I gradually realized that
The journey of the next stage of life will not start automatically,
The academic qualifications of famous schools can't help me show my ambitions.
Choosing a career is not the same as finding a job,
Instead of just relying on the alumni address book to find relationships,
It requires more in-depth thinking and hard work.
I must speed up my actions and step up my studies.
Therefore, I told people time and time again the professional difficulties I encountered,
Also ask them what they do when they encounter similar situations.
I raise the most important question:
For a lawyer who does not want to continue his legal work, what else can he do?
Because of her unremitting efforts to consult and take the initiative to attack, she encountered a job opportunity that was not what she had expected, but unexpectedly met her future development. More importantly, she also met a well-coordinated supervisor. It seems to be conveying "I have a similar career bottleneck", and feel that I am in a position that does not belong to me, but this society is very certain of its position.
In the end, she was still brave enough to step out of the comfort zone and tried many opportunities before she got a job opportunity in the city government.
At the same time, it is thus closer to the general public, knowing the problems that civilians will encounter, and willing to help the American people in need.
4. Bullying incident: Elementary school students, editorials
From the plots of many American dramas, we can all know the terrible bullying on the American campus. For example, the well-known series "Gossip Girl" produced by CW TV in the United States, and the highly discussed "13 Reasons Why Hanna's Last Word" in Netflix for two consecutive seasons all evoke many people's personal experience in school, or have witnessed tyrants. Ling's deep feelings.
According to the survey, one in three students has suffered bullying.
Therefore, campus bullying is not just a plight for young people. Their parents are also deeply troubled by the inability to protect their children from campus bullying.
When Mi Xueer was in the first grade of elementary school, she lined up for lunch and chatted at noon, and suddenly a boy in the class punched her in the face. She didn’t know the reason and forgot the boy’s name, but she Swelling of her lower lip and tears in her eyes. Of course, after the mother stepped up and went out to school to deal with this matter, the boy also apologized to himself.
Later, my mother also told her about the matter one night:
"That boy is scared and angry because of things unrelated to you.""He has many problems to deal with himself."
After marrying Obama, in order to help Obama's auxiliary election, she stood on the stage and stood in front of the crowd. She helped her inexperienced husband listen to public opinion everywhere and shared her husband's strengths and enthusiasm with the public. But the editorial did not spare her, or we say that politics is dark. The content of speeches that have not been reviewed and criticized in the past has been cut into inappropriate versions by interested parties, and this video has been repeatedly broadcast in front of the public.
For the first time, Michelle felt that it was her fault. She thought that she forgot that every word she made might be used by her opponent to make a fuss. She gave her opponent the words and those words to make them make a fuss.
Just like the first grade, I didn't see this punch at all...
I tell you, these words are very hurtful.
That night she called to apologize to her husband.
"Charming and caring" Obama responded to her remorse over the phone like this:
You see, this is because you have attracted many people.
You have become a force in this campaign,
This means that people will chase you hard. This is the essence of the matter.
I love you, my dear.
I know this thing makes you uncomfortable,
But things will eventually pass, as always.
Although they have been married for many years, Obama always thanked Michelle on every phone call and added that she was sorry that his wife had to deal with any results derived from his election.
But Michelle began to question that she was hurting her husband’s choice. Later, the news continued to broadcast related topic discussions, involving their religious beliefs, and included the paper Michelle wrote in the fourth grade of college more than 20 years ago. Turn it out, and then question her husband Obama's citizenship, and criticize Michelle's appearance and a series of subsequent effects.
She was described by the outside world as someone who was not her, and she could not even speak for herself.
In fact, this blow is also an opportunity for her change. Obama let her know that she is a help rather than a burden. If she is willing to continue to help the auxiliary election, she will provide more support and support to her. As a result, experts in the Obama campaign team began to focus on Michelle’s expression, driving atmosphere, hairstyle and makeup, conversation methods, etc., with more teaching and preparation to make Michelle’s personal characteristics and The charm of the stage can be played well with the right talent.
Not everyone who bullies themselves has a reason, they also have their own problems.
But the important thing is whether someone around can tell himself that there is no problem, or that we just lack professional assistance.
In many cases, it is not something that you do wrong, but many people in this society have their own problems.
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The last article is about the life after being elected. There is a lot of criticism of the current President Trump!
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