Michelle Obama: Black Women Don’t Complain Enough

Ok, I needed a bit of a humor break, so when I ran across this clip from Michelle Obama’s podcast, I just had to write about it. 

Ma’am I have literally never seen a clip of you talking in which you were NOT complaining https://t.co/ppp36lEewP

— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) January 28, 2026

Usually, I try to get a bit analytical, although I admit that every once in a while, I go the snide and snarky route despite the fact that I can never match Beege’s genius. 

This post will most certainly not be deeply analytical, despite the fact that Obama’s constant claims of victimhood do reveal something about the deep pathologies of the left and their obsession with claiming victimhood points. 

My brain is too fried for that after this week of news. I just want to revel in the sheer preposterousness of Obama’s making this claim. 

First and most obviously, there are few people on earth so privileged as Michelle Obama, and few people in the public eye who whine so much about how hard her life has been as she. 

🚨 UPDATE: Michelle Obama is being brutally mocked for LOSING IT and saying black people’s curly is a pain to manage and makes it hard to swim. pic.twitter.com/kMQnizOnH6

“Let me explain something to white people. Our hair comes out CURLY. When we straighten it to follow YOUR…

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 14, 2025

Not to put too fine a point on it, but from the moment Michelle Obama burst onto the national scene she has been lecturing us, complaining about everything under the sun, and it almost became a joke when, after the first few podcasts she did, she kept on trashing her husband Barack. She seems to do little more than complain. 

Michelle Obama complains about her life: “It is not a luxury to have hair & makeup team” pic.twitter.com/bzoWuyPhIQ

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 7, 2025

But of course, we could be generous to Michelle and give her this point: perhaps she has liberated herself from the supposed black woman’s inability to discuss their pain because she has grown out of it. 

Except…well, not to put too fine a point on this, the claim that black women repress their feelings, especially when they say they are in some sort of emotional distress, does not accord with our own experiences. 

I mean..REALLY?! Have you ever met anybody, from any racial or ethnic group, of any age, who, when asked about their impression of black women as a class, would describe black women as “reserved”? Would you? 

It’s even a joke in popular culture: the toughest gang member wilting before the rage of his mother is so common it is a trope, and with reason. It may be that stereotypes are exaggerations of reality, but they exist for a reason. Different types of people have common characteristics, and naturally so. When you watch Annie Hall, you don’t need to be told that Woody Allen is a Jew. 

He is a New York Jew. I grew up around New York Jews. Same with Italians. We all have stereotypes because they capture a reality, if only crudely so, given individual characteristics. 

And black women, as a group, are not shrinking violets, whatever Michelle Obama says. 

Before you get all huffy about my discussing racial characteristics, remember: Michelle Obama made the claim about the class “black women” having common characteristics, not me. She defined the class as distinct, and as all groups that can be lumped together, it’s not unfair to do so. 

With that out of the way, all I can say is c’mon, man. How un-self-aware can one be? 

Michelle Obama is afraid to share her pain? To swim? Feels oppressed by needing a tailor, makeup artist, and hairstylist? 

If only we all had her troubles.

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