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Please read!
Why white America perhaps fears Michelle more than Barack.
Excerpts from a 'Jack & Jill politics' newsletter - Author unknown:
As hard as it is to accept a black president, it's even harder to
accept a black first lady. The First Lady has always held a beloved
sentimental mother/wife of the nation symbolism. Conservatives are not
ready to have to look at this very BLACK woman with her degrees and
her fierceness and see her as the epitome of the American mother/wife.
This will be a first for white people. They do not want this black
woman in the White House as their first lady. That New Yorker cartoon
was about Michelle. She was its focal point...look closely...she
is the leader, the one starting the 'revolution' ...they want you to
imagine.
MSNBC's Chris Matthews said, in the course of covering the Obama
candidacy, 'He (Barack Obama) brings none of the ' bad stuff, you
know?' By 'Bad Stuff', he meant the legacy of [whites] enslaving
Africans in this country, keeping them as second-class citizens until
1965, a mere 11 years before this country celebrated its 200th
anniversary. You know, 'the original sin' or ' the birth defect' as
Condi Rice called it. Barack escapes this 'bad stuff' only because
his mother was white and may have had ancestors involved in the slave
trade. Also because Barack's father was not African American. He was
full-blooded African and therefore Barack had no ancestors enslaved by
America . So the white guilt factor is missing when they think of
him. HOWEVER, NO SUCH LUCK WITH MICHELLE!
Michelle Obama is a direct threat and lightning bolt against White
Superiority because she's Black...VISIBLY BLACK! But it's important to
note, she does not, in any way, shape, or form, conform to the
acceptable Black Pathologies that enable White Supremacy to sigh with
relief. [welfare mother, fatherless child, druggie, etc.] Michelle
was raised in a neighborhood. In a home. With TWO parents. No child
revolving in and out of jail. Raised by a Black man who not only
provided for his family, but did so, WITH A DISABILITY. Her mother had
a working class job - secretary - but it was taken ONLY after she had
seen her youngest child settle into HIGH SCHOOL.
Michelle Obama's poise, her confidence, her aura that was created by
that humble Black man, who by all accounts, adored her. He told her
that she is worthy, and so, when you have that told to you by the
first man who loves and protects you, you seek that validation in your
choice of mate, you'll settle for nothing less, and Michelle hasn't.
Michelle Obama, doesn't fit any of the acceptable Black pathologies.
And when you don't fit the acceptable Black pathologies, then you must
be destroyed. Michelle Obama has become the face of the Black America
whose existence is routinely denied by this country. Think about it.
In ONE generation, the face of this 'Invisible America ' has gone from
living on the top floor of a bungalow, to the possibility of living in
The White House. And yet, Michelle Obama, refuses to say ' I'm
special' in order to give white America its usual security blanket
[that she is one of the exceptions rather than the rule] So what
should be done?
Beat her down into submission.
Michelle Obama represents everything we black women want our daughters
to be. When we stand up for her we stand up for ourselves. No other
women in the world are more neglected and abused as African American
women period. Michelle looks like [our] daughters, her daughters look
like us. We love the way Barack looks at her; we adore the way he
looks at his daughters. The Obama's represent the hope that we can
be loved by our men and they will support us in whatever we do. Little
African American girls need a vision and dream of what it is like to
be loved by a man who looks just like them.
Is America ready for a First Lady who looks like her? A regular black
woman? Not a passable, biracial, curly-haired girl that they call
black, but a regular black woman from the south side of Chicago ? With
dark skin?
Is she going to be the face of The Woman on the largest pedestal in
the country? A self-confessed 'loud-mouth' black woman? If t he
Obama's succeed, it turns white supremacy upside down. And not because
a black man is in the White House; but, because a black woman will be
there who didn't have to come in the back door to lie in bed with the
president.
This is an email I forwarded from my sister.
Just wanted to get everyone's thoughts.
Please read!
Why white America perhaps fears Michelle more than Barack.
Excerpts from a 'Jack & Jill politics' newsletter - Author unknown:
As hard as it is to accept a black president, it's even harder to
accept a black first lady. The First Lady has always held a beloved
sentimental mother/wife of the nation symbolism. Conservatives are not
ready to have to look at this very BLACK woman with her degrees and
her fierceness and see her as the epitome of the American mother/wife.
This will be a first for white people. They do not want this black
woman in the White House as their first lady. That New Yorker cartoon
was about Michelle. She was its focal point...look closely...she
is the leader, the one starting the 'revolution' ...they want you to
imagine.
MSNBC's Chris Matthews said, in the course of covering the Obama
candidacy, 'He (Barack Obama) brings none of the ' bad stuff, you
know?' By 'Bad Stuff', he meant the legacy of [whites] enslaving
Africans in this country, keeping them as second-class citizens until
1965, a mere 11 years before this country celebrated its 200th
anniversary. You know, 'the original sin' or ' the birth defect' as
Condi Rice called it. Barack escapes this 'bad stuff' only because
his mother was white and may have had ancestors involved in the slave
trade. Also because Barack's father was not African American. He was
full-blooded African and therefore Barack had no ancestors enslaved by
America . So the white guilt factor is missing when they think of
him. HOWEVER, NO SUCH LUCK WITH MICHELLE!
Michelle Obama is a direct threat and lightning bolt against White
Superiority because she's Black...VISIBLY BLACK! But it's important to
note, she does not, in any way, shape, or form, conform to the
acceptable Black Pathologies that enable White Supremacy to sigh with
relief. [welfare mother, fatherless child, druggie, etc.] Michelle
was raised in a neighborhood. In a home. With TWO parents. No child
revolving in and out of jail. Raised by a Black man who not only
provided for his family, but did so, WITH A DISABILITY. Her mother had
a working class job - secretary - but it was taken ONLY after she had
seen her youngest child settle into HIGH SCHOOL.
Michelle Obama's poise, her confidence, her aura that was created by
that humble Black man, who by all accounts, adored her. He told her
that she is worthy, and so, when you have that told to you by the
first man who loves and protects you, you seek that validation in your
choice of mate, you'll settle for nothing less, and Michelle hasn't.
Michelle Obama, doesn't fit any of the acceptable Black pathologies.
And when you don't fit the acceptable Black pathologies, then you must
be destroyed. Michelle Obama has become the face of the Black America
whose existence is routinely denied by this country. Think about it.
In ONE generation, the face of this 'Invisible America ' has gone from
living on the top floor of a bungalow, to the possibility of living in
The White House. And yet, Michelle Obama, refuses to say ' I'm
special' in order to give white America its usual security blanket
[that she is one of the exceptions rather than the rule] So what
should be done?
Beat her down into submission.
Michelle Obama represents everything we black women want our daughters
to be. When we stand up for her we stand up for ourselves. No other
women in the world are more neglected and abused as African American
women period. Michelle looks like [our] daughters, her daughters look
like us. We love the way Barack looks at her; we adore the way he
looks at his daughters. The Obama's represent the hope that we can
be loved by our men and they will support us in whatever we do. Little
African American girls need a vision and dream of what it is like to
be loved by a man who looks just like them.
Is America ready for a First Lady who looks like her? A regular black
woman? Not a passable, biracial, curly-haired girl that they call
black, but a regular black woman from the south side of Chicago ? With
dark skin?
Is she going to be the face of The Woman on the largest pedestal in
the country? A self-confessed 'loud-mouth' black woman? If t he
Obama's succeed, it turns white supremacy upside down. And not because
a black man is in the White House; but, because a black woman will be
there who didn't have to come in the back door to lie in bed with the
president.
This is an email I forwarded from my sister.
Just wanted to get everyone's thoughts.
