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This article startled me initially. As I read on, I realized that it just said what I have thought many times since June about Michele. I am an RN and have had some very good co-worker friends who are very pretty black women. I have gone to a couple of Womens' Group meetings at their churches and gotten to know them very well. The one thing I noticed was that black women, no matter their size, their physical appearance, were all happy with who they were and what they looked like. If they were heavy and overweight, they did not bemoan it or put themselves down; they groomed, dressed well, had hair fixed pretty, and I wondered why white women think so little of themselves. They have a strong sense of self and self worth and seem to celebrate their woman and sisterhood. I look forward to seeing a healthy, strong, happy, beautiful, smart woman as our First Lady. I hope she manages to stay that way!
