"Baby Mama" Drama For Michelle Obama
2008's Imus moment went down last night.
Where else? On Fox News.
A chyron on the following clip from Fox News reads "Outraged Liberals: Stop Picking On Obama's Baby Mama!"
Nice to be reminded of how far we've come in this post-racial nation from, um, "Nappy Headed Hos".
Or maybe last week with that "Terrorist Jab" fist-bump.
Here's the video. Check out Michelle Malkin for added irony.
I'm certain you'll be hearing about this a lot more from my esteemed Vibe bloggers and many others--Oprah, where ya at?--but in the meantime, some questions...
Damn. If Hillary brought out the misogyny in (far too many) pundits, where are they headed with Michelle?
Will Hillary supporters so outraged by sexism they are vowing to vote for McCain come back to the fold now? Or will they, as Tim Wise wrote last week, continue to let their whiteness show?
Are those male civil rights leaders going to make any noise about this? You know who I'm talking about.
Will Fox News blame their stupidity on hip-hop?
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jburrell says:
"Will Hillary supporters so outraged by sexism they are vowing to vote for McCain come back to the fold now? Or will they, as Tim Wise wrote last week, continue to let their whiteness show?"
I'm gonna go with B. Look not further than Linda Hirshman's egregious WaPo editorial and HuffPo follow up. First, she got intersectionality wrong, second, she blamed Hil's loss on those who would have the woman's movement be about, gasp, all women, not just white women. I think racial self absorption and entitlement won't allow a portion of Hil's white feminist supporters to pay anything but lip service to the gender trouble framing Michelle's reception.
06/16/2008 at 11:33 AM