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The New York Times magazine (quadmoniker, avert your eyes) has a whale of a story this week about the relationship between Barack and Michelle Obama. It focuses more on Michelle than Barack, which makes sense because she’s been quite frank about their marriage since the campaign. There’s plenty of meat in the story, but one kind of surprising tidbit is that the Obamas haven’t shared a full-time home since 1996. More…
The New York Times magazine (quadmoniker, avert your eyes) has a whale of a story this week about the relationship between Barack and Michelle Obama. It focuses more on Michelle than Barack, which makes sense because she’s been quite frank about their marriage since the campaign. There’s plenty of meat in the story, but one kind of surprising tidbit is that the Obamas haven’t shared a full-time home since 1996. More… The Robinsons. The New York Times conducted a study on Michelle Obama’s ancestry. In 1850, the elderly master of a South Carolina estate took pen in hand and painstakingly divided up his possessions. Among the spinning wheels, scythes, tablecloths and cattle that he bequeathed to his far-flung heirs was a 6-year-old slave girl [...] Michelle Obama wears shorts to go hiking in the Grand Canyon. HuffPo asks if it’s appropriate.
So, here’s the thing. When we were being subjected to the firestorm over Michelle’s “right to bare arms” (har har har) a few months ago, I had some conflicted feelings. I’m not a terribly conservative dresser, but I know I wouldn’t have worn a sleeveless dress to the not-State of the Union. However. The uproar about Michelle’s arms smacked of body policing, albeit in the guise of “as first lady, is she representing the U.S. well?” See, I don’t think most people on the “no” side are there because they care about how she represents the U.S. The people who criticize the Obamas just for breathing are often the same people who are quick to claim that most Europeans “would be speaking German if it weren’t for us.” In other words, they don’t care about what other countries think of us because we’re teh awesome and everyone else can love us or leave us alone. The people who are ‘concerned’ with the appropriateness of her attire seem to be trying to impose their own standard of What An Adult Woman Should Wear on a woman they don’t know. That bothers me. More… After reading the second paragraph of this weekend story in the Washington Post about Michelle Obama, I had to manually prevent my eyeballs from rolling into the back of my head: So far, the first lady has chosen to be a food bank volunteer with an outsize entourage and an education activist with the largest [...]
From Jenee Desmond Harris’ Root piece “What Single [Black] Women Can Learn From Michelle:”
I know, I know, she means well; however, these “let’s follow the Obamas’ marriage example” stories are classist and reek of the “white lens.” It assumes that black women who aren’t “Type A,” black professional women, the author’s target audience, face the same dating dilemmas and opportunities of non-professional black women. Framing any group of women as “Type A” is a sure way to keep them single. Also, it neglects the plethora of literature of white affluent women who have testified to the trouble with dating men they view as their counterparts. Let’s not forget the lazy republican talking head banter ingrained in an argument like this. Exactly one year ago today, we’re still waiting for the release of the so-called “whitey tape.” Remember this? I now have it from two sources that there is video dynamite–Michelle Obama railing against “whitey” at Jeremiah Wright’s church. Republicans may have a lousy record when it comes to the economy and the [...] “Why would she concern herself with mainstream designers who don’t even put their clothes on women who look like her in ads or fashion shows?” — Naomi Campbell on Michelle Obama’s sartorial choices. [via Newsweek via Megan]
The Field Negro, on Michelle Obama’s recent comments that she was teased for speaking like a white girl: First, there is no such thing. Either you speak clearly or you don’t. … people have accents, and we all speak in different ways.The important thing is that we speak well, and in a [...] Amnau Eele, credited as the co-founder of the Black Artists Association, has made headlines by criticizing Michelle Obama for not wearing any African-American designers during the inauguration in a report to Women’s Wear Daily. This does not mark the first time Eele, a “divination artist” has made headlines with unusual claims.In 2007, Amnau Eele and [...] |
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