Even if Obama is the kind of black politician that middle-American white voters can get behind, the secret fear is that he could be a black Trojan horse with all sorts of passengers like Wright—or onetime compadres Bernie Mac and Ludacris—peeping out from under the canvas. He could be … Michelle. Or at least what Michelle represents: a smart, angry black person in the White House. Vanessa Grigoriadis, NY Magazine
While still feeling the reveberations from yesterday’s post about Jeremiah Wright’s nonexistent publishing deal I probably shouldn’t cite anything published in New York Magazine for about a month, but this was too good to pass up. I mean who, BUT a liberal media outlet would feel free to equate Black with “Ghetto.”
It was before the advent of MTV, so ghetto-speak wasn’t ubiquitous, and kids who liked to slum it with language played with pidgin. NY Magazine
The article is called Black and Blacker: The Racial Politics of the Obama Marriage, Oh yes and it is a doozy. The article is premised on the idea that Obama ain’t as “BLACK” as Michelle. I gave an interview that might be coming out in October and I said something to the effect that it has to be horrible to use a spouse against another spouse in an attempt to snuff out both of their dreams. Talk about psychological warfare on a marriage.
The description of the Obamas’ life together displays no evidence of their connections to black culture, especially now that it’s not prudent for them to join a new church before the election. They take pains to make sure their lifestyle is as boring as possible.
….Michelle tells us. “We also love a busy house, which means potluck dinners with our close friends and family as often as we can.” We have little idea of the racial makeup of such potlucks.
…“Michelle can get a little more tense. Before she goes on-camera for interviews, we’d have to give her a couple of minutes to compose herself. She’ll sit down, raise her hands over her head, and go, ‘Ugh, God!’ ” That’s a mask she’s wearing in public, most of the time, and we aren’t sure what is underneath.
…On a rope line, Michelle is boisterous and playful—“You a real sister!” one woman tells her, holding her hand for too long—whereas Obama tends to zip through crowds, with no hand held for more than a couple seconds at a time (to be fair, his Secret Service detail is said to be large and twitchy, owing to concerns that harm may come to him because of the color of his skin).
…But black people realize that Obama is doing what every successful black man in America has to do: flip the script.
…As a black comedian put it, jarringly, at an Obama fund-raiser and comedy workshop I attended recently, “His mom screwed the darkest n*gger she could find in 1969.”NY Magazine
Yes, the title is Black and Blacker and you can thank the President of the SCLC for the title with his “Slave Blood” foolishness. Sisters, let’s be clear the message the article is sending when you break it down like a fraction is that Michelle is “Blacker” than Barack and that might not be a good thing.
He moved easily in circles at school where Michelle wasn’t as comfortable, becoming the first black student to helm the Harvard Law Review. NY Magazine
Everything Michelle does in the article is “suspect.” Has there ever been a presidential race in your lifetime where the candidate has been pitted AGAINST his own wife? Read this little tidbit about the conclusion of the movie Do the Right Thing, the Obamas’ first date:
Do we want to know which side Obama would have been on, outside that pizza parlor in Brooklyn? He likely would’ve tried to talk Sal and Mookie out of a rash act, though there wouldn’t have been time for that. Michelle doesn’t mention the side he favored on their first date. It’s too loaded a question for a transcendental, post-racial candidate. NY Magazine
Now that we are getting closer to Labor Day, these liberal publications are coming out guns blazing. Tell us what y’all are really thinking. I mean how much clearly can you say “Obama might take Black folk’s ’side’ if he is elected?” Or how to you say “You should be suspicious of Michelle because Black people like her too much”?
To black people, Michelle represents authenticity. It’s hard to overstate black love for her: “The fact that, as a successful black male, Barack did not choose a lighter-skinned woman, as most of them do, sends a message to me,” says a black female supporter at the Pontiac rally. “Michelle is highly sophisticated, yet she comes from the most humble background possible—no one can say she grew up in Martha’s Vineyard and she’s not really black,” says supporter Alicia Nails, a lecturer at Wayne State University, standing nearby. “I’ll tell you my personal philosophy about people: If I want to know who you are, I look at who you sleep with, and who you give your name. When I look at Michelle, Barack doesn’t have to be any blacker for me.”NY Magazine
You have to read the ENTIRE article because it gets worse as you read along to this writer’s ultimate conclusion: “White people can’t trust Barack because he married a BLACK woman“. Because THAT’s the main idea consciously or unconsciously from this article. Don’t marry a SISTAH or she’ll bring to down!
Check out the magazine cover at the top of the post. There is Michelle hanging over Barack’s shoulder on the “Black” side of the cover. I told y’all it wouldn’t be the Republicans pulling the most foolishness between now and November. It’s going to be liberal media and they keep proving me right. What’s that saying, “A smart enemy is better than a foolish friend” or something to that effect. People who are too ignorant to even understand what they are doing are far more dangerous than those with malevolent intent. Ignorant people don’t know what they don’t know for someone who opened her article speaking about what white people don’t know about the Black middle class, that should have been a sign.
Gee thanks for reminding us that to many, a BLACk woman is not a suitable mate for a successful Black man. Thanks a bunch Vanessa Grigoriadis.
What a convenient conclusion Vanessa to reach, I didn’t say a word y’all. I didn’t say a word. So you can’t say I said it, I just offered you some additional information and you can draw your own conclusions But really you have to read this entire article. It is 6 pages and please read the entire thing twice before you comment. If FOX NEWS had run this as a segment or if the National Review had printed this, y’all would already be marching.
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Wow – Thanks for posting a picture of this ignorant strumpet. I am sending this to everyone I know.
“‘His mom screwed the darkest nigger she could find in 1969.’NY Magazine”
Obama was like 8 years old in 1969. Missing simple facts can always reveal things about people, especially writers and so called journalists.
Much obliged for putting this on blast! I thought it was just me…
Hmmm, this- to me- is another example of liberals using their liberalism as a cloak for their inner racism.
I’m not surprised.
Cant argue with this one, this was a two front attack.
Either Barrack is not black enough which makes him safe for whites and weak for blacks.
Or Michelle is too black which makes her threatening, to whites but validates Barrack’s black card with blacks.
This has been interesting to watch, the liberals have been the Dem’s own worst enemy, When the Repbublicans open their mouths you expect it and immediately dismiss it cause you knew what they were going to say it in the first place.
But the everyones else are showing how clue less they really are.
I actually like this, everything is out in the open.
I am pissed and speechless. With friends like these…
Holy Cow…. What kind of article is this? It’s utter tripe. These so called liberals make me sick.
Uhm…hmm…uh…what the HELL?
Gina, I only needed to read that article once to see that all of these crazy ass people are on a seek and destroy mission with the Black woman as the target. I have far exceeded my tolerance capacity for the ridiculous BS that contributes to the continued degradation of the Black woman.
V.G. and New York magazine are a disgusting reminder of what is wrong with the way Black women are viewed and thus treated in society. My cheeks are on fire right now! There is so much more that I could say but then that would not be very helpful in dispelling that BS label of the unnecessarily “angry black woman”, right?!
BlackButterfly,
there is nothing wrong with being ANGRY. I don’t think we are angry enough.
gem2001,
TRUE…We have not been angry enough collectively and publicly. Ugh…this crap is beyond ridiculous, the Black woman is getting disrepect from ALL sides…SHYT!
Well…can’t say I’m surprised. Look at who the Editors are for these magazines and you will find all the closet racists/sexists rearing their heads. The one thing that has been made abundantly clear is that it’s not just for Republicans. They can bring it but that doesn’t mean they’ll win. And you know some Black people do question Barack’s commitment to Black people because of his upbringing – and that’s ok. It’s not that cut and dry though imo. He seems to capitulate to white people a lot…but apparently it’s not enough and it will never be. As for him being married to Michelle, had he married a white woman he wouldn’t be the presumptive nominee right now. We can certainly evaluate the Obamas and their commitment to the Black community by looking at their actions. For some it’s not enough. On the other hand they are certainly being attacked in ways that would put them on par as being ‘Black enough’. Damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Meanwhile this latest diversion will keep some turned away from the Georgia/Russia/US showdown going down and all the economic upheaval coming down the pike. How much do you wanna bet a few more banks are on the verge of collapsing?
Wow – just wow. I am so sick and tired of black marriages being degraded by so-called liberals, especially the Obamas. What’s funny is that these same liberals would rather a black woman be a high school dropout with five kids, three baby daddies and married to the government so they can continue to stroke their egos with all of their “compassionate understanding” and “good work”.
This “writer” is just another example of a non-black woman basically trying to put black women in their place. Don’t get it twisted, this article is bigger than Barack and Michelle. It’s a message to all of us – you’re either a jolly mammy or a whore and if you think there’s room for you to be smart, successful and unapologetic we will tear you down, mmmmkay?
Gina — you said “Yes, the title is Black and Blacker and you can thank the President of the SCLC for the title with his “Slave Blood” foolishness.”
The “Slave Blood” theory as a reason for why Michelle is less acceptable to White America than Barack is not mere foolishness. It is a fact.
White folks themselves have said this – often and since the beginning of Obama’s candidacy – with such euphemisms as “post racial” and “transcending race”. Terms invented by Whites, which they applied only to Black folks.
Here’s what the NYTimes wrote in a June article about Michelle: “Barack Obama often blurs identity lines; much of his candidacy has seemed almost post-racial. Mrs. Obama’s identity is less mutable. She is a descendant of slaves and a product of Chicago’s historically black South Side. She burns hot where he banks cool, and that too can make her an inviting proxy for attack.”
ironically, i read this article (it was one liberator magazine’s site) right before I came to this site. I read it again this morning because I wanted to see if i missed something. I really don’t get what the author is trying to convey. From a writer’s perspective, it was incoherent and choppy. I had to read it again. I thought maybe I missed something. Maybe I am not as smart as I think I am. Before I even say that it is ignorant and distasteful, I have to point out that it is piss poor writing. It really is.
To add to the chorus of the what the hells. What the hell were thinking publishing this crap. I could barely get past the first paragraph specifically this quote. “The dress fits snugly, with a bit of blue-and-orange-beaded flair sewn near her chest bone, sparkling like a costume necklace from a flea market.” May be I’m reading to much into this but something about this really bothered me. At least the comments aren’t too horrible.
Thanks for posting this. I am completely appalled by this. It almost seems like both New York and New Yorker have it in for Michelle Obama because she’s not Hillary Clinton (they’re beloved senator).
This article is classist and racist, full of stereotypes about African American women, families, and communities.
Boo hiss on this article and its writer.
The author sounded jealous to me. lol.
And also I agree it reads choppy!
Almost all her choice of adjectives were negative towards Michelle. She’s got a chip on her shoulder and wrote for anyone who needs to lap this sort of thing up. sigh.
I felt that it was nothing more than a jump on the ‘let’s hate /bash Michelle’ bandwagon.
…but also, I suspect Barack is a type 6 personality while Michelle is a type 1. So, i wouldn’t be surprise if Barack’s great concern way back when really WAS about abandonement. But then again… who cares? And so what?
“I really don’t get what the author is trying to convey. From a writer’s perspective, it was incoherent and choppy. I had to read it again. I thought maybe I missed something. Maybe I am not as smart as I think I am.”
I agree. Those were my first thoughts exactly. I was like what in the H-E double hockey sticks?? Maybe that is why Gina suggested we read it twice.
Are they hiring at this mag? I was never an English major, but after reading that article I am thinking anyone can be a writer.
“The dress fits snugly, with a bit of blue-and-orange-beaded flair sewn near her chest bone, sparkling like a costume necklace from a flea market.”
I didn’t like the subtext of that statement either. I also didn’t like the subtext of the whole Do The Right Thing scenario.
haven’t read the article, just wondering if people who have are sending letters to the editor or is that a waste of 15 minutes?
Regards of what demon possessed people say, there is an authority higher that all of us. Michelle Obama is a wonderful, accomplished woman and very beautiful and she scares the hell out of insignificant people.
“This “writer” is just another example of a non-black woman basically trying to put black women in their place. Don’t get it twisted, this article is bigger than Barack and Michelle. It’s a message to all of us – you’re either a jolly mammy or a whore and if you think there’s room for you to be smart, successful and unapologetic we will tear you down, mmmmkay?”
Envy is one of the “seven deadly sins” and that is what we see in this article. Total envy, hatred, and resentment of an intelligent, articulate, accomplished, beautiful black woman. So what else is new??
Perhaps the article was poorly written on purpose to try and “disguise” the obvious jealousy and bias against black women.
Honestly, try to show this to your dads, mom, aunties, uncles, cousins, play-cousins, etc. They will read maybe 10 words and then their eyes will gloss over and jaws will go slack. They will miss the significance of the article…which is the point of the author imho.
*sigh* Her stupidity makes me ill.