Michelle Obama credited with helping recast image of U.S. black women

07/20/08 | CASSANDRA SPRATLING

[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080720/FEATURES01/807200469&imw=Y

Link only per rules.

[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080720/FEATURES01/807200469&imw=Y

[allmost]

She speaks for her gender and race?

[TribalPrincess2U]

What to? Worse then it already was?

[cla62]

So now black women are known as angry and American hating. Not much has changed then. Their are options out there for people who hate their country.

[nobama08]

Where are the pictures of Michelle and Aunt Esther?

[Conspiracy Guy]

I remember someone recasting the image of Germans.

[TornadoAlley3]

Article states Michelle is not the typical angry black woman with a big booty...then goes on to quote people saying she is really black, African American features, and people quoted are proud Obama did not marry a fair skinned woman.

[Snickering Hound]

[al baby]

no but she married a fair skinned negro

[Free ThinkerNY]

[TornadoAlley3]

[Paleo Conservative]

[allmost]

That’s all good. They think she speaks for ‘African-American’ women? Thats just stupid.;

[alecqss]

No wonder we have huge credit related problems presently....

[TruthWillWin]

So now black women are known as angry and American hating. Not much has changed then. Their are options out there for people who hate their country.

Don't forget "Victims".

[proudofthesouth]

Michelle OBama: The black Marie Antoinette!

[mountn man]

Michelle Obama credited with helping recast image of U.S. black women.

For Obamas and the left, everything is about "IMAGE".

No substance, just image.

[aruanan]

Michelle Obama credited with helping recast image of U.S. black women

Should read "blamed for" instead of "credited with." Now everyone thinks of black women as skinny, overpaid (because their husbands can steer loot the company's way), grumpy, grumbling, sour, fingerpointing whiners.

[G Larry]

I wouldn’t be bragging about the image she’s created.

[allmost]

Thanks for the info. It’s just a ‘hate whitey’ thing then?

[ClearCase_guy]

They think she speaks for ‘African-American’ women? Thats just stupid.

Imagine the interviw: "So, Michelle, I've always wondered -- what do 'you people' think about easy access to abortions?"

[allmost]

“We aint done been knowed bout dat” said one soon to be banned irrelevant poster.

[allmost]

I think abortions are more frequent in whites due to the population statistics that I’ve read.

[Oldexpat]

Just like Hillary,,she is a female lawyer who got her big “rain maker” job after her husband made it in politics.
That is a real good role model for young women.
It teaches them self reliance. Now we will see if she also is rewarded by being humiliated by her husband..if so..she is a shoe in to run for President.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“irrelevant poster. “
sposed to spell that “irrevalunt!”

[Dutch Boy]

The Oprah is not going to like this.

[TornadoAlley3]

From comments below article...Read reactions to this story
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justlistenok wrote:

Replying to :

I don’t see any of the WHITE candidates in any political race placing any emphasis on WHITE men or women or any other color for that matter. The ones who are placing emphasis on color are the Obama factor. The emphasis on color is what turns me away. None of us had any choice in what color we were born. Get over it.

I don’t see any of the WHITE candidates in any political race placing any emphasis on WHITE men or women or any other color for that matter. The ones who are placing emphasis on color are the Obama factor. The emphasis on color is what turns me away. None of us had any choice in what color we were born. Get over it

Thompson wrote:

... the very fact that Barack Obama married a clearly African-American woman sends a message that you can marry a black woman and still be successful Uhm, okay...what’s that say about Michelle’s taste, however? She prefer high yellow near white? This kind of ill-logic is self defeating and pointless. This whole color as character reference is nuts. Think not? Then explain to me the “MetroMix” headliner photos almost daily that 50%+ of the time show black males with white females and almost never show black females with white males.

[RetiredArmy]

Really? Watch a few episodes of COPS and that might change your mind back. Same for the white trailer trash that votes Dimocrat also.

[allmost]

mi bad.

[Krankor]

You have got to read the entire article- it is absolutely wacky. They actually laud Michelle for not having a big butt.
And Whoopie Goldberg thanks her for being dark skinned. Obama was supposed to transcend race and bring us all together, but all I hear about is how he and Michelle sat in Uncle Jeremiah’s church for 20 years and didn’t say a word about his hate mongering- and how that’s my fault because I don’t understand black churches. Or how there’s special rules for using the “n” word, and I will never know them because I’m white. Or how you can’t satirize Obama and Michelle because, well, because it’s racist. I think race relations have actually gotten worse because of Obama.

[Kozak]

[Redbob]

"Michelle Obama credited with helping recast image of U.S. black women"

There's no doubt about that!

They used to be considered no more than shrill if harmless whiners...

[cynwoody]

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080720/FEATURES01/807200469&imw=Y

Interesting choice of domain name on the part of the Detroit Free Press.

[TornadoAlley3]

I think race relations have actually gotten worse because of Obama.

No doubt.

[TornadoAlley3]

CNN currently airing a special....”Black In America”...’Understanding the Black Vote’....will they air “White In America”?

[miele man]

bump for later read

[Political Junkie Too]

I'm trying to make sense of a CBS Radio News top of the hour bit that I just heard at 11:00AM PDT. Maybe I missed the beginning of the story, but they ended with a clip of the Beatles singing "Michelle." The announcer comes on and says, "Paul McCartney shows off his limited French, but he sure can turn a phrase."

What was that in response to? Was that supposed to be a subtle, subliminal bump for Michelle Obama, or was there another story that it was related to?

-PJ

[Iron Munro]

"She's brilliant, she's beautiful, she's classy and she's a warm caring individual,"

Change? You want change?
Wait until I get in the big house.
You can bet your sweet donkey there'll be change.

[Tribune7]

Complex problems sometimes have the simplest solutions.

[HighlyOpinionated]

"She normalizes black women," says Alyson Jones, an elementary teacher at Nataki Talibah Schoolhouse, a charter school in Detroit.

In other words, she makes it "okay" for a black woman to dress and look like (human/white) women, without using the term (white).

Normalize: To make normal, especially to cause to conform to a standard or norm. To become or return to normal.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

What is the norm if not what "normal (human/white) women" have dressed like and acted like? No matter what our 'take' is on her behavior, Michelle Robinson Obama comes across as a "Della Street" from the old Perry Mason television show. Or a "Clare Huxtable" from the Bill Cosby Show. You know, "normal" as in "what every white person has been trying to explain to every other culture and ethnic group for over a hundred years." Just act like a lady and not a hootchie-koochie. Dress conservatively. Look your best and treat others kindly. Be couth (courteous) and not course.

And for heaven's sake, Michelle Obama, quit acting angry, it's boorish. You're a smart intelligent woman. If you'll remove the chip from your shoulder and just act "normal" or "human" instead of "privileged" (or demanding), you'll do a lot more for all ethnic groups.

[TornadoAlley3]

http://weblogs.variety.com/thesetlist/2008/07/even-if-he-sing.html

maybe this?

[Political Junkie Too]

Thanks. That's probably it.

-PJ

[Steve0113]

Wyatt says America is not accustomed to seeing a black woman with breadth, depth, intelligence and beauty, and Michelle Obama has the potential to change that.

I didn't realize Condi Rice was invisible.

[musicman]

Michelle...." If you'll remove the chip from your shoulder and just act "normal" or "human" instead of "privileged" (or demanding), you'll do a lot more for all ethnic groups."

[BigCinBigD]

Now dis is de image a frst lady shud project.

[johnnycap]

I really have a problem with the way American Media latches on to the newest person to come down the pike and imbues them with all of this implied credential when they have come out of nowhere and have done virtually nothing. And then, all of a sudden they are our instant icons, in a flash recasting our ancient paradigms and able to speak for us all.

This really needs to stop. Until America starts demanding some real credentials from these jamokes, we will continue to dangle in the wind, going to and fro in a directionless yet frenetic amble.

[tom h]

"Michelle Obama credited with helping recast image of U.S. black women"

Yea, right.

* Before Michele Obama, black women weren't angry, bitter, leftists.

* Before Michele Obama, black women were proud of their country.

* Before Michele Obama, black women didn't have a chip on their shoulders because of their skin color.

* Before Michele Obama, black women were happy, patriotic conservatives who voted Republican.

Of course, consider the source -- the Detroit Free Press, one of the most leftist rags in American. who are ashamed of their

[Snurple]

Michelle Obama credited with helping recast image of U.S. black women

Recast? They must mean reaffirm. I see them every day, meeechele types, angry, loud, obnoxious. All the benefits she has recieved from a country she has a problem being proud of....diamond ring in a pigs snout.

[Eagles6]

And the great racial divide is Whitey’s fault. /sarc