Michelle Obama — who is not even technically the one running for office — has been accused of being hateful. Unpatriotic. Too elite. A baby mama. But she's something the media, the news and the pundits hardly even recognize: An extremely modern woman, a product of her history, background and age. As Kaplan writes: "A recent New York Times profile, in distinguishing Michelle's background from that of her husband, described her as being 'a descendant of slaves' — as if that's a unique fact rather than a collective one that applies to the vast majority of the millions of black Americans whose families have been here for hundreds of years."
The crazy part is that Michelle Obama should be treated as a great American success story, someone we can all relate to or be inspired by. Without being forced to "soften" her image. She's a working mom! With brains! What's not to like? It's a paradox: Her story — growing up not rich but not poor in Chicago, making it into Princeton and becoming a lawyer commanding a six-figure salary — is actually the American dream. So why is she being treated like she's the American nightmare?
(Meanwhile, despite what the critics say, some Americans are embracing Michelle Obama: Her Us Weekly magazine cover did well and she might even be on the cover of Essence.)
Then there's this: With all of the attacks against Michelle Obama, why is no one rushing to her defense? Mary C. Curtis recently asked this very question in the Washington Post. "Where are Obama's feminist defenders?" she writes. "I want to know: What does Gloria Steinem think? She was out front with her support of Clinton, promoting the importance of a female president. She has even endorsed Barack Obama. What's her reaction now that the knives are out for another strong woman?" Ms. Curtis seems to lean toward the age-old concept that feminism has elitist, racist roots: "The woman who employed my educated mother to clean her house never quite saw her as a sister in the struggle for equality," she writes. "But in America, there's seldom a cost for disrespecting black women."
Barack Obama's campaign is built on a single word: Change. Isn't it about time it applied to the way a black woman is treated in this country as well?
People who have "actually" met Michelle has found her to be one of the nicest, most nurturing women they have ever seen. Her critics, who have never met her, talked to her nor has gotten to know her as an person, nor do they have a desire to, find her intelligence, passion, inner strength and fierce dedication to her husband's campaign to be intimidating. Those are qualities that Senator Obama loves about Michelle.
By labeling her with the stereotype of an "angry black woman" which is one of the most degrading insults to black women or any woman, will force her to change into that image of the weak, predictable and passive "Stepford Wife" who is only seen and not heard.
Like I said before, why should Michelle change her personality to satisfy idiots that are not going to vote for her husband anyway.
UPDATE::
Today, I was happy to find that Michelle Obama Watch posted a link of a petition they describe as...
“…a statement of Refusals and Commitments that we hope white feminists might use in creating conversations and mobilizing around our commitments to coalitional antiracist feminist analysis, practice, and pedagogy.” (Link Here)
Spatz and Russo agree that in general, white feminists have not defended Michelle Obama with the same zeal as they defend Hillary Clinton’s honor:
“We refuse a feminism that pits sexism against racism, that claims that sexism is more entrenched than racism, and that the existence of sexism means that racism no longer exists. We do not accept the logic that criticizing sexism must be tied to a denial or minimization of racism. Sexism and racism, as well as other forms of oppression, are interconnected. The misogynist spectacle against Hillary Clinton is directly tied to her white, middle-class heterosexuality, which is different from attacks on women who are not white, middle-class and heterosexual. We are dismayed that when media pundits frame Michelle Obama as an angry black woman, or as unpatriotic, or suggest that she should be the target of a “lynching party”, there has been no similar feminist outcry by white women.” [emphasis mine]
Link to the Think Girl.net blog post.
Link to read and sign the petition.
So whether you are a sensitive male or female who agree that Michelle have been ignored by the so-called feminists who have pledged to protect women's honor, please go and sign the petition.
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