I was expecting something like this to eventually make the news or at least the tabloids. Even though this tryst hasn't actually happened. The possibility or
likelihood of this happening is not out of the question. I just expected it to get more attention than this has. Thus far the only
mention of President Obama in a sexual connotation is his infamous encounter with Larry Sinclair. Even though I believe every rumor has at least a grain of truth. Though I'm not such a great fan of Obama. I was quietly hoping that rumor wasn't totally true. I'll just say the presidents' admitted experimentation with drugs has put him in some questionable positions. Whether anything actually happened or not. Remember, he didn't file an
incone tax until he was thirty-three years old.
I'm always thinking out of the box to figure out what's inside. I think I might have something here. Now I know why no sisters are coming forward
talking about how they lost the first black commander-in-chief. Someone could write a book and have a million seller. There aren't any takers though. The black women lost out once again. Before Now that the media is speculating about his taste. Funny that lady doesn't look anything like his wife. It wouldn't look good for his image if it was discovered Barack was looking for his own Heidi
Klum. Is that what he's been hiding from the public? He really likes white women..
Why's does it ALWAYS have to be about race ?
ReplyDeleteDoes it REALLY make a bit of difference at the end of the day ?
You must not have read many of my posrs. I've never been accused of being racist. It's never really about color with me. But I don't go out of the way to avoid the subject either.
ReplyDeleteI just think it might be interesting if black women knew that the first black potus really preferred white women.
At the end of the day it doesn't matter for most people. Some of his policies are wac no matter what color you are.But let's be honest. Black people thought they had a cousin in the White House. If not the president himself,at least his wife.
What if Michelle Obama were white? By: Crystal P. Smith (Add to your loop)
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If Michelle Obama were white, what would've happened?Barack Obama won the presidency by a landslide. The answer was clear — yes, America was ready for a black president. But how much different would things have been if Michelle Obama were white?
The family of a presidential hopeful, and his wife in particular, become a very important factor in whether a president will be elected. Voters tend to go for the total package and appearances matter. It's been proven that Americans usually pick the more handsome, taller candidate with the most attractive family. President Obama is no exception, which is why he and his family have garnered so much attention.
But what if Michelle Obama were white and, along with the idea of a black president, we had needed to accept an interracial union?
As is, the Obama's marriage is non-threatening. They're both black, both graduates of Harvard Law School, and they seem genuinely in love. Still, the media constantly took jabs at their race. FOX News called her "Obama's baby mama," while The New Yorker depicted her as an afro-wearing, gun-toting Black Panther.
Even though she doesn't fit into our society's standard of beauty, Michelle became a fashion icon because she is the nation's first black first lady. Would the media be so enamored if she looked like all the others? And as it stands now, the first lady's magazine covers don't see high sales unless the magazine is directed at blacks or she appears with the president, according to Advertising Age. Yet she is constantly featured. Why? Because her race has become the sensation.
But what if she were a white girl? Would hip-hop have embraced Barack as a cultural icon? Doubt it. Would he have won notoriously Republican Southern states like North Carolina and Virginia? Definitely not. What would have distinguished him from the stereotype of all other successful black men, who "as soon as they get money, go out and get a white girl"? Nothing.
Black academia questioned Obama's title as a black American even before he formally announced his bid. "He's not really black, because he isn't a descendant of slaves," was the common argument given. Which, of course, sounded ridiculous, because his skin color made him black to the world, whether he identified as such.
Once the public jumped behind him, academia pretended like they never said anything. Tavis Smiley resigned from the Tom Joyner Morning Show for his remarks against him. If Michelle were white, it would have made it easier to write him off as a sellout, to question his "blackness," simply because of his marriage choice. Michelle Obama, the unequivocal black one — the dark-skinned sista from the South Side — validated him in a way his background (and skin) couldn't.
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ReplyDelete"I think that for black voters, he would have had to overcome more than he did around the question of authenticity," said Mark Anthony Neal, professor of African American history at Duke University. "I think black voters would have gotten behind him eventually, but it would have been difficult to get their support if she was a white woman."
Interracial relationships between blacks and whites were outlawed in many states until 1967, and we can't forget the atrocious murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till for whistling at a white woman.
To be fair, attitudes about interracial relationships have improved since then, but a variance in Michelle's skin tone could have affected Obama's win.
"I was on an NBC show in the early '90s, and we described interracial marriage as the last taboo," said Tom Smith, director of the general social survey at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
"I think we've progressed beyond such a strong word as taboo, but a substantial number of people still disapprove and of all the types of interracial interaction, living in the same neighborhoods, sharing schools, etc., it is the one with the lowest level of support."
According to a 2007 Gallup Poll, older Americans are less likely than younger Americans to support interracial marriages, and 77 percent of Americans say they approve of interracial relationships versus 17 percent who say they don't. Blacks are more likely than whites to accept the union: 75 percent of whites do, compared to 85 percent of blacks.
"I think older folks who still subscribe to older concepts are very uncomfortable with interracial relationships and at the national politics level would be uncomfortable," Neal said. "When you look at the electoral college number, I think (Obama) would've still won, but not under the same pretense — he wouldn't have taken the American South."
To any racist, the lighter she was, the darker he would have become. We cannot deny that as it is, Barack Obama is socially acceptable to whites because he's light-skinned and of mixed race, and that he's more acceptable to blacks because he identifies himself as a black man.
An interracial first family would have been too 21st century to take.
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