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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 02:07 PM

    @AKA one final note on your previous post BTW I respect your opinion..

    Unlike you I am a Black person n this country and I do find a number of issues are as simple as Black and White..I do not find anything funny about the pathologies of racism..I do to a degree wish I could have the luxury you have a a white person and not be overly sensitive about race but we are not in the same place and that is find with me..

    Your voice matters and of course mine as well when the issue of racism in introduced into my orbit..

    Once I had a candid conversation with my jewish neighbor he was upset about an essay I wrote where in invoked the word holocaust to defined the history of Blacks and American Indians here in America..

    I told him I had the right to define evil in any manner I thought was appropriate so again On the issue of me being oversensitive..NOT...

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