From their Style Issue
"Michelle's perceived authenticity has been an asset to Barack. Ron Carter, a former associate of the Black Panther Party who is the publisher of the South Street Journal, told me that he was impressed by her handling of a combustible situation that arose during Barack's senatorial campaign, following a speech that he gave at Liberty Baptist Church, on Chicago's South Side. "There were lots of radicals protesting, calling into question his loyalty to the community," Carter recalled. "She came out the back door, and there were a bunch of hoodlum thugs ready to do a full-blast demonstration. She put on her street sense and asked all the guys, 'Y'all got a problem or something?' They all froze, guys who would slap the mayor, who would slap Jesse Jackson in the face, even.""
"Michelle's perceived authenticity has been an asset to Barack. Ron Carter, a former associate of the Black Panther Party who is the publisher of the South Street Journal, told me that he was impressed by her handling of a combustible situation that arose during Barack's senatorial campaign, following a speech that he gave at Liberty Baptist Church, on Chicago's South Side. "There were lots of radicals protesting, calling into question his loyalty to the community," Carter recalled. "She came out the back door, and there were a bunch of hoodlum thugs ready to do a full-blast demonstration. She put on her street sense and asked all the guys, 'Y'all got a problem or something?' They all froze, guys who would slap the mayor, who would slap Jesse Jackson in the face, even.""
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