Posted on 02/23/2018 12:43:10 PM PST by simpson96
Respectability politics died the day Michelle Obama showed up at her last official engagement as First Lady with a thrown-together ponytail-bun combination and a facial expression fit for a funeral. She looked flawless as always. She also looked fed up and ready to go. Respectability politics—the belief that black people can overcome many of the everyday, acute impacts of racism by dressing properly and having education and social comportment—is, first and foremost, performed as a kind of sartorial prerogative. What I mean is that your fashion choices are subject to great scrutiny.
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So when I saw her hair on her last day, it was clear that she had not spent hours in a stylist’s chair getting her ’do done just right. Presumably, she would have wanted to be a fashion stunner for her final formal public appearance. Instead, this bona fide fashion icon showed up to the inauguration of Donald Trump with a quick and convenient, on-the-go ’do, and what looked like a good church dress she had pulled from the closet. Certainly, she may simply have been gracious in letting Melania have her moment. But there was also something about the refusal to perform the public standard—a standard that Mrs. Obama had herself set—that marked an unceremonious ending.
Her hair was a signal to the world that what we were about to witness was some bullshit. She knew it. We knew it. “Do y’all see this shit?” that hair asked of all of us who were watching
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This article is utter drek written by a moron who thinks fashion is a way to oppress the black woman.
That beast doesn't have a pony tail..a hippo, rhino, elephant, T-Rex tail perhaps...but not a pony tail.
She is butt ugly inside and out.
LOL!
Christian Century? More like Barfly Decade.
God, that repulsive wretch isn’t even in the White House anymore and her adoring gaggle of brain-dead she-fans just can’t help spewing out puff pieces about her.
...for a dude.
For a large homely woman, without even the gift of a sharp mind, Michelle Obama has done exceedingly well in life - and she basically lucked into it all.
She was lucky enough to be born into a time of heavy-handed affirmative action promotion of marginally qualified blacks. That got her into the Ivy Leagues and subsequent cushy employment.
And she was even luckier to be selected as the “beard” for an extremely ambitious gay/bisexual man (who became the biggest ever recipient of affirmative action promotion). That got her into the White House and a subsequent $ 100 million net worth.
Considering Mooshele’s dimensions, I say it’s more like a Clydesdale’s tail.
But perhaps similar in size.
Check out her eyebrows.
They are painted
She looks like an NFL linebacker..
Oh ..wait..
What!
I don’t know how you could read this long mindless screed without coming to the conclusion that these people are hopelessly broken.
60s hippie-pseudo-poetic psychobabble can be utterly meaningless. This article opens up the plaintive soul of what must be a chronic whiner, without a shred of redeeming value.
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