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The meaning and magic of Michelle Obama…
Regardless of what we may feel about her husband, the fact remains that his election installed a dark-skinned, Negroid-featured, Black woman as the First Lady of the ‘most powerful nation on earth'. And while we may dispute such a grandiose title, there's no disputing the extraordinary symbolism of Michelle Obama.
Regardless of what we may feel about her husband, the fact remains that his election installed a dark-skinned, Negroid-featured, Black woman as the First Lady of the ‘most powerful nation on earth'. And while we may dispute such a grandiose title, there's no disputing the extraordinary symbolism of Michelle Obama.
Why so?
Because she exists at a mad moment in African-American history where bi-racial, and the ‘barely-Black’ women, have displaced, and virtually erased, the standard Black female image from Hollywood movies, our tv screens, and even on the covers of so-called ‘Black’ magazines.
And what has been the impact of all the above?
There has been a severe crisis in Black female self-esteem, and one person has emerged to single-handedly help restore calm and confidence among the Black female collective, and rescue its image from global oblivion…
So please step forward one Michelle Obama!
The most photographed woman on the planet is not Halle... Beyonce...or Rihanna… but a chocolate-colored curer of an unacknowledged psychic calamity, and the First Lady of the ‘free world’.
God sure does work in mysterious ways!
(c)2015 Menelik Charles.
Because she exists at a mad moment in African-American history where bi-racial, and the ‘barely-Black’ women, have displaced, and virtually erased, the standard Black female image from Hollywood movies, our tv screens, and even on the covers of so-called ‘Black’ magazines.
And what has been the impact of all the above?
There has been a severe crisis in Black female self-esteem, and one person has emerged to single-handedly help restore calm and confidence among the Black female collective, and rescue its image from global oblivion…
So please step forward one Michelle Obama!
The most photographed woman on the planet is not Halle... Beyonce...or Rihanna… but a chocolate-colored curer of an unacknowledged psychic calamity, and the First Lady of the ‘free world’.
God sure does work in mysterious ways!
(c)2015 Menelik Charles.
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