You’ll notice a certain group of people are absent from speaking out out about the racism towards Michelle Obama. They’re always missing in times like these, but I notice and I don’t forget
Tessa Thompson: As a Black American, there is a kind of bone-tired exhaustion in fighting the battles that we have fought so many times before, and insisting time and time again, generation after generation, that people have the right to exist even if they speak out against the state.