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have a little dignity.
See, now this has been the stuff of racism. Focus on crap and a reluctance to return
to racial transcendence.
Michelle Obama is not a baby mama with junk in the trunk. It's offensive, just as it has been for the past 30 years while Fox has been painting African Americans as ever-more ridiculous modernizations of Amos 'N Andy. I know why THEY do it. Shame on a black woman who finds stereotypical broad strokes something to be proud of.
But why here?
This is a well-educated, well-spoken intelligent, genteel woman who represents the best of ALL of us. Where is the need to drag her into ghetto caricature.
That's what all those Joe Six Packs in Arkansas are waiting for, people.
