Michelle Obama Is A Elegant Sophisticate Who Will Make A Wonderful First Lady!

Well,you guys,it's almost official! Barack Obama will be inaugurated tomorrow. I can't wait & I'll be at a little party witnessing a truly historical moment in world history. It feels so good to have the person I voted for get sworn in. And that gets magnified by the fact that he is African-American.

Michelle Obama will become our first black First Lady.I really admire this elegant,beautiful sophisticate.She will bring more than style & glamour to her role as First Lady.There is no doubt in my mind that she will bring great wisdom & intellect to the forefront as well.But,according to this article from Politico,some folks are wondering just what type of black woman she is.How will she represent for the sistas? Here's more on the speculation out there from Politico:

"African-American women say she’ll upend age-old stereotypes of the angry black woman who can’t find a good man, or keep him when she does.

The one person who hasn’t really weighed in is Michelle Obama. And it’s got the cottage industry of people who pay close attention to the president’s wife – the historians, the cultural mavens, the social scene-setters — frankly a little confused.

That uncertainty, some say, relates to race – put simply, Obama is like no other famous black woman who came before her. She’s not a single workaholic like Condoleezza Rice. She’s not from the entertainment world like Beyonce. She’s famous, but in an entirely different way than, say, Oprah.

“I think that black women will constantly have to translate and explain who Michelle Obama is, I have heard people say that they don’t know any black women like her and she seems to be so aggressive, and why does she downplay her career and talk about being a mom so much,” said Beverly Guy-Sheftall, a women’s studies professor at Spelman College.

“She is going to be hyper visible and having always to explain what she means. But there is always the possibility that Michelle will get constructed as an atypical black women, like Condi, and people think that she is so special and so different that we can’t even think about her as a black women. We hope that doesn’t happen.”(END OF EXCERPT) Read the rest here: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17640.html

Have You Seen This Racist Forum Called "Chimpout"?

We live in a country where all speech is permitted,including ignorant,racist speech.Take this stupid racist forum called "Chimpout". I came across it on google when I was looking for this article about black Alaskans.On Google,I saw the title"Alaskan Niggers Feel Ignored By Sarah Palin;Say She's Not Sensitive To Their Whining". Even though this was written before Obama won,I think it's safe to say that we are not living in a post-racial America!Judging from the title of the site & the banner(pictured above),you would think that it's a site about chimps right.Especially since there are bananas falling continiously when you visit the site.By the content of this forum,it becomes sickenly apparent that this is a site dedicated to spewing racial hatred.Here's the link to this horrible site:http://www.chimpout.com/forum/showthread.php?p=105881

Let me know what you think about it.

Maybe Sarah Palin Should Tell Black Alaskans That "Color Is No Longer A Barrier"!

I've already done a posting about how Black Alaskans feel about their governor,Sarah Palin.Today she told commentator,Glen Beck,that since Obama won "color is no longer a barrier". Well, I hope she realizes what she said should be true,but that it is not. In his case,Obama was able to overcome the color barrier & become the first black president of the U.S. But,the barrier is still up in many cases all over this country.And we can look at the state of Alaska as an example of that.In case you didn't catch my previous post on this subject,you can get the gist of it from this excerpt from The Huffington Post:

"Gwen Alexander, the president of the African-American Historical Society of Alaska, told me that Palin stated defiantly that she had no intention to hire any minority staffers. And according to Bishop Dave Thomas, senior pastor of Anchorage-based African-American church Jesus Holy Temple, the Palin administration excluded black business owners from the Alaskan oil and gas pipeline board. "We wasn't even able or allowed to go into the meetings" to seek contracts for the pipeline, Thomas told me.

Palin further alienated Alaska's black community by becoming the first Alaskan governor in recent memory to not recognize the Juneteenth celebration of the emancipation proclamation. "She doesn't hire any black people, she doesn't have any on her staff, so it's not a surprise that she doesn't support our Juneenth celebration," Alexander said."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/how-sarah-palin-has-exclu_b_134403.html