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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 08:39 PM
Original article: First lady got back

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"Is that all your Black womanhood is to you? Is your entire body image wrapped up in your caboose? Are you still waiting for ratification of your beauty from the general populace? Has watching all those hours of Bob Beelzebub Johnson’s Black Exploitation Television fried each and every one of your brain cells?"

http://michelleobamawatch.com/foolishness-and-chicanery-alert-saloncom-first-lady-got-back

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 08:30 PM
Original article: First lady got back

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"Oh really? Is your self esteem so damaged. Your intellect so limited. Your creativity so lacking that the most exciting thing about Michelle Obama, a Princeton and Harvard graduate, mother of two and corporate executive is her “booty?” Did all your buddies over at Salon.com tell you how clever you were? Did you feel like the very special clever Black person Erin? Did you get a gold star? I hope they paid you more than $1.25 per word, because surely selling Michelle Obama down river by chopping her up into pieces, marginalizing and dehumanizing her was worth more than a two piece and a biscuit. It gets worse."

http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 06:39 PM
Original article: First lady got back

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Had a whyte person written this, our whole community would have been up in arms. The fact that a sister wrote this makes this even more deplorable.

Michelle Obama is an accomplished,intelligent woman. To dedicate an entire article pontificating on her azz is really pathetic. She should write for KING.

Posted by: 1969 | November 18, 2008 at 12:54 PM

The editors at Salon obviously must have EXTREMELY low standards to let this horrible mess be published. The author comes across as small, silly and utterly simple. I started to leave a comment, but she's gotten too many already, in my opinion. I would prefer that she and that rag just fade away.

Posted by: SunnyJ | November 18, 2008 at 02:48 PM

This has to be the dumbest, most ridiculous irrelevant drivel I've had the displeasure of reading in a minute. They actually pay this chick to write??

I didn't make it all the way through. I just kept thinking it had to get better and skipped forward a bit. Did it over and over. Two pages of BS. They oughta be ashamed for printing that mess.

Posted by: Dana | November 18, 2008 at 06:21 PM

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 06:32 PM
Original article: First lady got back

Check out what a group of black women and men have to say about this article

http://creoleindc.typepad.com/rantings_of_a_creole_prin/2008/11/dear-erin-aubry.html

That was truly some ignant azz shit. True enough, this may have been an off-colored remark I may have made amongst my gal pals, but never in public and damnsure not published.

Posted by: Erica B. | November 18, 2008 at 11:42 AM

I'm shamed.

WHY?????

Posted by: naijamodel | November 18, 2008 at 11:46 AM

Wow that was pretty fuckin ignorant. The stupid bitch even had the nerve to say Obamas win wasnt that big of a deal. If you have seen any of the pictures of blacks getting sprayed with fire hoses and dogs being sicced on us then yes your ignorant ass would realize that yes it was a big fucking deal. Jeeze people make me wonder.

Posted by: nathan jefferson | November 18, 2008 at 12:08 PM

This goes beyond fucknuttery. I'm so pissed off, if I had a subscription to, or read her trashy little magazine I'd cancel it. Have we ever had a magazine article talking about a First Lady's body parts? Shouldn't that be a clue that perhaps there's a reason why it's never been done before. Honestly, this isht makes my temples throb. Nope, gotta send that heffa an email to tell her what a dumb, ignorant cow I really think she is.

Posted by: Roslyn Holcomb | November 18, 2008 at 12:09 PM

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