Michelle Obama Reunites with her Family in Georgetown, SC
January 15, 2008
Michelle Obama (center), her brother Craig (left), and the extended Robinson family in Georgetown, SC this afternoon.
While she grew up on the South Side of Chicago, Michelle Obama’s trip this afternoon to Georgetown, SC was really a homecoming. Michelle’s grandfather, Fraser Robinson Sr., was originally from Georgetown and, while she was growing up, Michelle and her family regularly spent part of their summers visiting their extended relatives in the Low Country town.
Joined by her brother Craig, Michelle’s afternoon in Georgetown started with a reunion and some sweet tea with her cousins Connie Jones, Dorthy Robinson, and Harolyn Siau at the Robinson family home near downtown Georgetown.
The meeting also provided Michelle and Craig with an opportunity to take a look at fmaily photos Cousin Dorthy keeps on top of her piano.
After meeting with her cousins, Michelle went down the street to her grandfather’s old church, Bethel A.M.E., in historic Georgetown, where she spoke to a packed house of South Carolina Obama supporters that included over thirty-one of her own family members from the area.
During her speech, Michelle touched on the concerns that some have about whether or note Barack has enough experience to be President.
While he may not have the long Washington resume of other candidates, Michelle noted, with Barack’s background as a community organizer in Chicago — working right along side the people he sought to help — and eight years as a State Senator (more years in the kind government that’s closest to each of us than anyone else in the race) in the rough and tumble world of Illinois politics, he clearly has the kind of experience that the country needs right now.
It’s not that Barack isn’t ready, Michelle said,
The challenge for us is to ask, “What are we ready for?” This one is on us — see, we like to talk about change, but we don’t really like change. We want easy change, we want change that will make us feel comfortable, but that’s not how change happens, it’s not something that’s just going to come to you passively.
Things aren’t gong to get better when you wish for it or you hope for it: Things get better when regular folks take action to make change happen from the bottom up. Every major, historical moment in our time it has been made by folks who said “Enough,” and they banded together to move this country forward — and now is one of those times.
How about you? Are you ready to answer Michelle’s call to action and help Barack Obama win Palmetto State on Saturday, January 26? If so, sign-up right now to help Get-Out-the-Vote for Barack in the South Carolina and an organizer from the campaign will contact you shortly.
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Good to know that Michelle Obama visited Georgetown. Good to see her photo and the Robinson family. Good to know that I am a distant cousin and a supporter of her husband. I too am a native of Georgetown County, SC.
God Speed.
Oliver L. Reown
5969 E FM 875
Waxahachie, Tx 75167
God is absolutely amazing! I followed politics and got into discussions with my dad, Andrew L. Nelson, and cousin, Thomas Robinson, as a young teenager but never thought that a relative of mine would be this involved in the Presidential race. I pray that the Obamas will have a successful and victorious campaign. My wife, Janice, and I are natives of Georgetown, SC and when the Obama campaign comes to Middle Georgia we look forward to supporting you.
May God continue to bless you.
Thomas & Janice Nelson
237 Hatcher Road
Warner Robins Ga. 31088
I am a native of Georgetown, South Carolina. I am the sister of Oliver Reown and the cousin of Thomas and Janice Nelson. I pray the Obamas continue to be bless in great and mighty way.
May God continue to bless you.
Yolanda Reown Gregory
Columbia, South Carolina, 29223
may the almighty GOD bless obama and family , i am far away from his family but just love to hear his word
john okafor
lyckselevagen 96 16267 vallingby
stockholm -sweden
Dear Mrs. Obama (Michelle),
For a very long time, I’ve wanted to tell you that my late mother, Viola Grant Wilds, and your grandfather, Mr. Fraser Robinson, were classmates. My sister and I recalled that when my mother was speaking of her classmates, she would often mention Fraser Robinson. My mother was the aunt of the late James Wilds, former owner of the Wilds Funeral Home in Georgetown, and I, of course, am a native Georgetonian (now living in Laurel, MD).
I am so proud of you and your husband. I supported him very early in the Presidential race, and now that I know that his wife has family in Georgetown, there is no doubt at all that he will receive my vote. May God continue to bless you and your lovely family. Your daughters are simply adorable. After seeing them at the Democratic Convention, I adopted Sasha as my own: for, she seems to be so fiesty. “Where are you daddY?” she asked.
Blessings always,
Benzena Wild Lewis