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First lady got back

I'm a black woman who never thought I'd see a powerful, beautiful female with a body like mine in the White House. Then I saw Michelle Obama -- and her booty!
By Erin Aubry Kaplan

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  • Wednesday, November 19, 2008 01:55 PM

    @AKA; Perhaps but you are not a Black woman nor the parent of a Black daughter..

    I did read your post and I agree with your sentiments about Joan, yet your suggestion that I am oversensitive is the words I hear to often from whites in denial and seeking to deflect...

    For the record I will remain hyper focus on every manner and incarnation of racism in my country as a Black person some a posture has allowed me and other Blacks to survive, navigate and develop in a culture which has a long history of contempt for my very essence from my dna to the buttocks of my Black woman,,

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