Michelle Obama's mother was worried about her daughter marrying a biracial man...

BY CELESTE KATZ

March 18, 2015

Peter Slevin’s forthcoming biography, 'Michelle Obama: A Life,' doesn’t suggest those concerns spurred Robinson (pictured) to oppose the union.

Long before Michelle Obama became First Lady, her mother had misgivings about her marrying a young man named Barack Obama — because he was biracial.

In a Chicago TV interview that aired during Obama’s 2004 U.S. Senate campaign — and newly resurrected by Michelle Obama biographer Peter Slevin in a book due out next month — Marion Robinson confessed to being “a little bit” wary about her future son-in-law being the product of a white mom and black dad.

But it could’ve been worse, according to Robinson.

“That didn’t concern me as much as had he been completely white,” Robinson laughed in the appearance on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight,” which was scarcely noticed at the time.

“I guess that I worry about races mixing because of the difficulty — not for, so much for prejudice or anything,” Robinson continued. “It’s just very hard.”

Slevin’s forthcoming biography, “Michelle Obama: A Life,” doesn’t suggest those concerns spurred Robinson to oppose the union.

To the contrary, writes Slevin, a veteran Washington Post correspondent who now teaches journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School: “Marian, no pushover, was favorably impressed with Barack.”

When the Obamas moved to Washington, Robinson, now 77, joined them as the doting and protective grandmother to the couple’s daughters, Sasha and Malia.

While granting few interviews, Robinson has spent years doing everything from tucking the girls in at night to accompanying them on official trips to China and Africa.

More recently, she marched with the Obama family in Selma, Ala., to commemorated one of the bloodiest battles of the civil rights movement.

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“Michelle Obama: A Life” is scheduled for release on April 7 by Alfred A. Knopf.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

As previously reported by the Daily News, Slevin’s largely favorable book traces Michelle Obama’s life from her Chicago childhood to how her intellectual and social experiences at Princeton and Harvard Law shaped her worldview.

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"But it could’ve been worse, according to Robinson."
“That didn’t concern me as much as had he been completely white,” Robinson laughed in the appearance on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight,” which was scarcely noticed at the time.

Sounds like a Black Supremacist of the first order.