A black bourgeoisie perspective on U.S. politics
On The Popularity Of The First Lady
11 Apr 2009 Author: Jack Turner
From Sophia A. Nelson on HuffPo:
In the last two and a half months, Mrs. Obama has had the unique opportunity to single-handedly correct and contradict a litany of tired stereotypes about black women. She has do it by showing how to successfully hold down a career and nurture a family at the same time; by being beautiful and compassionate. By showing that we not what people tell us we are — loud, angry, intimidating, overbearing, etc. We are not a group of women who shake their booties on BET videos and who have their babies out of wedlock with various different men as the fathers.
via Sophia A. Nelson: Black. Female. Accomplished. No Longer Attacked..
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