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Love,
The Angry white guy two comments up.
That brought goosebumps to my arms.
I have struggled with words so I will just say, I admire her and look forward to calling her my First Lady.
BUT, "they" jes' don't BELONG there!!!
i have a question: in a world where 'successful' black men who marry "outside" are shoved down our throats in television and magazines (and where this choice has been a source of much derision within the black community at large), would barack have been even anywhere NEAR as successful in his run if his wife were not black (or...if she had been "barbie doll" black)?
sorry if this question has been posed on this site before...i'm pretty new to this site.
If Barack Obama had married 'Snowflake', he wouldn't have even made it to the United States Senate.
If he had married ' Beyonce', he probably would have made it to the Senate. Dunno about the Presidential run.
i appreciate them both, but michelle holds a special place (i think especially for us women). thanks for responding.
The operative word is "seemingly".
Isn't it funny how many blacks have bought into the American mythology? They looked at their options and thought "Yeah, I think I'll get myself some book learnin', and be a boring lawyer, or doctor. I think I'll go home early and have a light dinner, and feed the cat....and turn in early". ...Just about the time that peaches and cream, flaxen haired Peggy Sue is firing up the porno webcam somewhere in middle America. And, Bubba is having his 6th beer before his KKK meeting. Maybe Bubba always knew it wasn't real - the mythology.
Then Bubba woke up one day beside underage, sweet sweet Peggy Sue...only to see that blacks had the faith and believed The Gospel of America.....and became the boring, apple pie eatin', lawyerly speakin' , one-non-same-sex-partner havin' authentic Americans.
Thou shalt surely drive a Chevy.
Halleleujer
After she made the comment about Hillary not being able to manage her own household,
I knew she was a strong Black woman and I decided to really listen to Barack. I have been sold ever since.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/14/225955/...
I will fight for Michelle, maybe harder than for Barack. It's true ... I really really admire and dig this woman.
I have to ask this, because I don't understand how this seems to be so discounted by some White folks.
So he made them up.
He is a Muslim, after all. Muslims aren't raised by white people. Muslims are raised by Muslims and white people are not Muslim.
That's what they think.
I believe it's discounted, because, I suppose, if Mom and Grandparents had done the ' right' job raising Barack, then, of course, he NEVER would have married Michelle.....right?
And then there's that.
And, of course, people think this way exactly because of what you said in your following post - he chose a black woman and community so they must not have raised him right.
They might even think he abandoned the white community.
YOU have been presented with a lot of INFORMATION here and YOU have the ABILITY to ACQUIRE MORE, if you choose! Once you gather as much FACTUAL INFORMATION as YOU can about Black culture (or white culture or Hispanic culture, etc), then YOU can SPEAK FOR YOURSELF and assist in EDUCATING "other people".
Now go forth and LEARN! It's a viable and vital part of any culture!
You did know that Mr. Obama is a "BRIDGE" to himself - right??? Here's a high, S.A.T.- level test question: What color is Mr. Obama's mother/grandmother/grandfather? Take your time. Call a life-line if ya must!!!
Finally: What do y'all KNOW about Mrs. (Dr.) Obama that makes her less FEARFUL and "one of my very greatest hero(e)s"??
I can't believe that I spent this kind of time on this post.
That New Yorker cover is actually what many white people believe will happen. I truly believe many people think if the Obamas get up in the White House, Snoop, Lil Wayne and 50 Cents will be hanging out playing dominoes on the portico, Marine One will be up on blocks, the Oval Office will be redecorated in red, black and green, the Secret Service will be replaced with Public Enemy's SW1s and when Barack gives the State of the Union instead of that warning music they always play on NBC, it will be replaced with a hip hop beat. Behind him, instead of Olan Mills type family portraits, there will be photos of the Obamas with airbrushed dollar bills and champagne glasses in the background.
Michelle will walk around the White House with pink and green Goody rollers in her hair while Sasha and Malia play doubledutch in the hallway. The wooden forks and spoons from the 70s will be hung up on the wall, plastic covering all the furniture, which is all black lacquer by the way. The Rose Garden grass will be left uncut.
At the state dinners, instead of filet mignon with fresh asparagus, Michelle will serve chitlings, fried chicken, collard greens and watermelon, and guests will wash it down with a fresh cup of red Kool Aid. Afterwards instead of doing the waltz, they will all do the Electric Slide.
I do believe this is what people really think will happen if Obama is elected President. And if they do go to the White House, watch for people to start referring to the White House as "public housing."
the ever-reverent PICTURES of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and 'The Last Supper' - in color;
the 'JELLY JARS'-I mean, fine stemware glasses for da red kool-aide; 'PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY SANDWICHES' for high-level state dinners; O.K. I'm going to try this - 'BARS' on all the windows!! :>)
I'm so done - for now!
Love the imagery of pink n green goody rollers, Town. I do hope Michelle gets a great chef, and puts her own African American spin on the menus.
People really believe it's outrageous to think of Michelle in that setting..after all, how will she know how to act? How will she know how to dress? What to say? They really think blacks and black women particularly are uncouth.
Whatever, Michelle will be herself...and that will have to be ok, because herself is American.
:)
this was so funny, and you're so on point. There's nothing to add.
I can't stop. My side hurts. I'm tearing up.
Public housing?????
No. You. Didn't.
And all the rest of it is just too much.
Thanks for making my night.
I am white. I have 4 kids. And dear God in heaven let them all have the pride and brilliance of Michelle Obama.
And to those macho crackers who are reeling at the thought of a black woman being in a leadership role, a position of authority, I have only a scornful reaction.
Get the fuck out now crackers, because your day is ending and you will be expected to go back in your little holes and disappear from sight, along with your dumb-as-a-log, civil liberties-hating, dipshit of a President.
And as to what you probably fear most profoundly and most deeply, i.e., that the end of white power will occasion some payback, let me assure you -- as a white male with a full cracker appearance -- of the following:
We know who you are. And white guys like me -- who you haven’t noticed because you have been too fucking dumb to think that wealthy and powerful white family guys like me have been loathing you -- have been watching you use male privilege and whiteness to gain riches and power and prestige. We have watched you demean and ridicule and hate and -- worst of all -- smirk. We have watched you sit in steam rooms at clubs and universities, we have been sitting in those rooms next to you, we have been listening. And to say we despise you is ----- well, let us just say that despise is a term of affection compared to the loathing we feel.
And you day, your eclipse, your decline, is at hand.
And you know what, dipshit, you won’ t even know it is me loathing you because one way I am going to be part of the payback against privilege, is by expressing completely disingenuous sympathy as you and all the condescending racists watch your world crumble.
And while you won’t know who I am -- you'll think I am your friend because I will be acting and smiling and giving you white pats on the back -- I will be doing everything covert I can to undo everything you have worked for and gained on the backs of those you treated with condescension.
You may be pretty much dumb asses yourselves, but I know you are smart enough to remember all the times you treated people of color with arrogance, every time you mumbled “nigger,” every time you raised your voice to a waiter who couldn’t scurry around fast enough to suit your white ass, every time you moaned about affirmative action while sopping up white affirmative action, every pathetic time you told a pollster that you were voting for a black candidate and then went in the booth and pulled the secret white lever that you and I know about and then only told one white friend.
Well guess what? I am the white friend you told! And I laughed with you. But then I went home and added you to the list of macho white trash that would eventually lose it all.
But then again, I have already been causing you a shitload of trouble. In fact, you may know who I am: Remember when you had that really nice boss who was loyal to you and to whom you were loyal? And remember the sad day when he called you in and told you that there was nothing he wouldn’t do to avoid having to let a great guy like you go? And then he gave you a hug? And you walked out.
I was the guy. And I fired your sorry white ass because your arrogance and condescension and racism and blatant use of male privilege sickened me. And because every time you told a nigger joke you never even considered that anyone in your presence might not have a racist lily white country club honky-ass family like you.
You felt safe around me. And that was your mistake.
In the beginning of Ralph Ellison’s tour de force The Invisible Man, the unnamed black protagonist is given a recommendation letter that he doesn’t know will sabotage and ruin him. Well, so help me, on countless occasions I have sabotaged careers of white men who thought no one was watching when they used the race or gender card. And now it will only get worse.
So tomorrow, when you go to your bank or law firm or hospital or university, take a close look at your supervisors. You know the ones who claim to look out for you. The ones who make more money than you but who you don’t envy because they care about you?
Well, one of them is me. And not only do I not give a flying fuck about you, my kindness is a mask for loathing.
I pity your poor bastards. Because I’m not the black guy whose ascension you fear, I’m one of you. I look like you. In fact, I am sitting in my office looking out at you right now. I just winked at you, in fact. You look safe and secure in your arrogance, your whiteness. Good. Relax. In fact, email me another of your dumbest white sexist or racist jokes. I promise to laugh. That’s what I want.
Just know that I know everything. I’ve seen everything. And know that now I am waiting for what for me will be the last straw. The next Barack joke or the next time you demean a woman like Michelle, you are going to be standing there like a fucking cyclone just hit you. And you’ll be asking:
What happened to my career? Where did my juice go? My privilege?
I can’t wait. Come on asshole, make fun of Michelle Obama. I dare you, you arrogant fuck.
Make my day.
I'm speechless.
Love it. A screenplay. A novel. I'm up for it.
American Psycho and To Kill a Mockingbird. Cool.
How about Charles Bronson fused with Zora Neale Hurston?
Oops. I gotta get back to work. I sort of feel like the Dexter of racial justice.
Michelle is neither so Michelle gots to go. I really think that certain people feel that if you as a black woman don't think they're the cats' meow, you must hate white people. You gots to go.
You not skinning or grinning? You gots to go.
I think many black women understand what Michelle is going thru because she's going thru the same bullshit we've had to go through on our jobs and daily lives, just amplified.
But don't get it twisted. If Barack had married "Beyonce," Beyonce Obama wouldn't be any more acceptable to certain people than Michelle. Instead of the ungrateful angry black racist bitch meme they're using, they'd just use the dumb, frivolous, sassy bimbo arm candy meme. America would rather have a drugged up homewrecking embezzling thief as First Lady than a well spoken, educated, black lady any day.
Just truth.
Love the imagery of pink n green goody rollers, Town. I do hope Michelle gets a great chef, and puts her own African American spin on the menus.
People really believe it's outrageous to think of Michelle in that setting..after all, how will she know how to act? How will she know how to dress? What to say? They really think blacks and black women particularly are uncouth.
Whatever, Michelle will be herself...and that will have to be ok, because herself is American.
Wow, I'm so glad I came back to read this thread. "the secret white lever" is chilling because I know it exists on so many levels.
I'm in an odd position - I really like Michelle Obama. I think she's an admirable woman, and if she'd been running, I might have backed her over Hillary (who I also think is an admirable woman).
I'm still not thrilled with her husband's politics (but I'm on his side against McCain, obviously).
Here's hoping that next year sees an Obama White House...
colorism is rabid in amerikkka
even among blacks
colorist blacks and and racist whites adore bo because he is half white/yellow...
just as wm revere halle berry because she is half white
in the mind of a white bigot:
half white=half me/ok/acceptable/beyond black etc
tragic!!!...
peace
alicia banks
see more on colorism bo mo etc:
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As if that matters...
We are so past what you don't like. We love & adore Michelle Obama! She's Our First Lady! Our Queen. And we stand united with her!
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No, really - are you?
I think someone with the name "wordsmith" would have something better to say than some stereotypical name calling.