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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I have a sister-in-law who has tatooed eyebrows. They are absolutely perfect in terms of shape and size—but it still looks like her eyebrows were drawn on with a Sharpie marker. It’s not a good look. But I guess it’s better than no eyebrows at all.
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Winning comment, LOL!
I appreciate the author pointing this out, although I can’t bring myself to read the article. I didn’t realize how crappy she looked that day, since I try to avert my eyes from them.
Epic self-hatred. Talk is cheap, woman. There are millions of actual slaves being trafficked in this world today, many of them children, many of them right here in the United States, probably wishing they were picking cotton instead of being sexually degraded every day in every way—yes, worse than ol’ massa’s drunken exploits. Put your flared, indignant rage to some constructive use instead of wallowing in a past none of us alive today took any part in and about which none of us alive today can do anything to change. It was what it was. Give the abolitionists their due. And deal with today.
How can anyone not see ‘’she’’ is a man? This gorilla has a five o’clock shadow.
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