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• Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:37 PM

  @ HesterEastman

  Big white women are just fat asses while big black women have a great booty.

  I just did an image search on the Obama's wedding photos because I was curious about all this crap about Michelle's hair. In one photo was the bridal couple and their mothers. Ann Dunham was fat. Very fat.

  Therefore, I am looking forward to a body pride article on fat women.

  Don't hold your breath. We love to hate fat women. We love to hate old women. We love to hate women who seek political power for themselves -- especially if they are so presumptuous as to attempt to parlay on first lady status.

  Salon just put the first nail in Michelle Obama should she ever seek political power for herself. We now know her as someone who has been reduced to a BUTT.

  So Salon has not only cheapened the debate about race, but they have engaged in sexism. Unfortunately, the only way to correct this sexism is to begin running articles on male politicians' body parts. And no, I am not talking about Obama's ears. We ALL know where this could lead in an article about Barack Obama and it is nothing to do with his ears because a sexual body part can only be countered with another sexual body part.

  Why is it that only women get reduced to body parts in contexts that should have nothing to do with sex?

  Michelle Obama will be our first lady. It is hardly an enviable position, since it results in critiques which to woman is powerless to control and no pay whatsoever. Salon is leading the way with sexism.

  First, they pick on her choice to focus upon her daughters in the time of transition. Since Obama will be too busy, someone has to take up the slack. (I trust he will remember that he also only gets to be a father once and will pace himself so that he can be both a good father and president.) Then they highlight her ass.

  If Salon is attempting to emulate Vanity Fair, I just want to say that Vanity Fair at least knows when to keep tongue in cheek, and the writing is much better.

  Now about that image search on Michelle's hair. It appears that she has had a variety of hairdos. It trust she won't make Hillary's mistake of trying six more in one presidential term. If she does, she will be lacerated. But even if she does, she does not owe something as personal as a hairdo to either black people or white people. Let her choose her own.

  —AKA Smith Read AKA Smith's other letters
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