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I hear you.

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I hear you.

I think you are correct, which is why I said this was the first Celebrity President. This is going to mirror usual politics with our celebrity culture. I think it's going to be crazy.

I appreciate your comment too because one of the reasons I come here to JJP is to be able to listen to voices like yours, even if I am a blabster myself. New York Jew, what can I say?

I like your blog too. We probably have more in common that you might think, particularly in the area of art and culture.

OTOH, I'd like to see the full range of Michelle: Lawyer, wife, Mom, daughter, aunt, professional, playful, funny, biting, corny, fashionista, no-nonsense, geeky, brainy while rocking the pearls, the pants, the suit, the jeans, the dress. I believe she has all of these traits, and then some. But she can only safely play up *some* of them, lest someone feel “uncomfortable”–or more to the point: threatened.

But I really believe she's up for the task. I don't think she was under any illusions about what this would all mean for her and the responsibilities she'd have. I've met President Obama before (when he was a Senator) and was impressed, but I think I'd really have to check myself if I ever met her because I'm in total awe of her. :<)

Let's go down the list: Joan Walsh, Geraldine Ferraro and a host of other white women all said the same thing and this was during the time the Clintons started race baiting. Ferraro took it even further and blamed Black people (focusing on Black male reporters claiming NO ONE talked about sexism and were giving their tacit approval of it). It backfired for many reasons, one of which is that there are women who are Black and we were not even brought into the conversation but we were attacked and insulted. Another reason is that is simply wasn't true: plenty of Black people talked about and denounced sexism but that got in the way of their whining about how unfair it was to compete on a level playing field.

They wanted deference, they wanted to fall back on their white privilege. So when I use “industrial complex” it is intentional because when you tie something around a cloak of privilege you are benefitting from it and profiting from it. Look at how many Blacks are in the Senate or Governors (zero). Look who got themselves attached to Affirmative Action after all the blood had been shed. Do some research that isn't based on a privileged white-centric class-specific perspective.

If one's mind has already made up why would I wish to argue about a subject?

Look at who is presenting this latest ridiculous story about how FLOTUS Obama must be “giving something up” or is somehow diminished. It doesn't take the historical context of those descended from slaves value the traditional family structure. Our ancestors weren't allowed to have one. Not when you were legally defined as 3/5s of a person and listed on property records next to the cows. Not after Emancipation when the backlash resulted in mass lynchings of men, women and children. Not when the main source of employment for a Black woman last century was to be a domestic, raising somebody else's kids, working 16 hour days for as much as $2/hr 6 days/week. Often sexual abuse was going on there as well as further continuance of the rape of enslaved women (Don't believe me: go do some research and check the census records). Of course we weren't considered “real” women. Both parents HAD to work, not because the women felt the need to be liberated or the men
were lazy but because it was a matter of survival.

It was white women who wanted “liberation”. Black women wanted to the boot off the neck first. Meanwhile they still enjoyed all the privileges that befit their status under white male supremacy. First wave to present when push comes to shove the leader of the day choose their advancement at the expense of anything else. Michelle Obama chose to have a family, chose to support her husband and choosing to make her own path. She is not Hillary. Her ambition and desire for power do not drive her. She is not competing against her husband. She did not choose a weak willed man who will embarrass her with public disclosure of his numerous indiscretions. They are not elite. They are just ordinary people in an extraordinary situation.

Your response is rather provocative and takes away from a serious matter. I don't think using a sexual analogy is appropriate if you are actually interested in having a real conversation.