Popular News Magazine: Michelle Obama Got Back
Posted by Bossip Staff
A writer from Salon Magazine posted the following on the backs of the hottest chick in the game, Michelle Obama:
Actually, it took me and a lot of other similarly configured black women by surprise. So anxious and indignant were we about Michelle getting attacked for saying anything about America that conservatives could turn into mud, we hardly looked south of her neck. I noted her business suits and the fact she hardly ever wore pants (unlike Hillary). As I gradually relaxed, as Michelle strode onto more stages and people started focusing on her clothes and presence instead of her patriotism, it dawned on me — good God, she has a butt! “Obama’s baby (mama) got back,” wrote one feminist blogger. “OMG, her butt is humongous!” went a typical comment on one African-American online forum, and while it isn’t humongous, per se, it is a solid, round, black, class-A boo-tay. Try as Michelle might to cover it with those Mamie Eisenhower skirts and sheath dresses meant to reassure mainstream voters, the butt would not be denied.
As America fretted about Obama’s exoticism and he sought to calm the waters with speeches about unity and common experience, Michelle’s body was sending a different message: To hell with biracialism! Compromise, bipartisanship? Don’t think so. Here was one clear signifier of blackness that couldn’t be tamed, muted or otherwise made invisible. It emerged right before our eyes, in the midst of our growing uncertainty about everything, and we were too bogged down in the daily campaign madness to notice. The one clear predictor of success that the pundits, despite all their fancy maps, charts and holograms, missed completely? Michelle’s butt.
Lord knows, it’s time the butt got some respect. Ever since slavery, it’s been both vilified and fetishized as the most singular of all black female features, more unsettling than dark skin and full lips, the thing that marked black women as uncouth and not quite ready for civilization (of course, it also made them mighty attractive to white men, which further stoked fears of miscegenation that lay at the heart of legal and social segregation). In modern times, the butt has demarcated class and stature among black society itself. Emphasizing it or not separates dignified black women from ho’s, party girls from professionals, hip-hop from serious. (Black women are not the only ones with protruding behinds, by the way, but they’re certainly considered its source. How many gluteally endowed nonblack women have been derided for having a black ass? Well, Hillary, for one.)
But Michelle is bringing those two falsely divided minds together in a single presentation — finally, unity for the real world! Talk about a power base. Thanks to Michelle, looking professional and provocative in a distinctly black way will become not only acceptable but also part of a whole presidential look that’s more, well, inclusive. Now we’ll all be able to wear leggings to board meetings; we’ll sport pencil skirts sans the long jackets meant to cover the offending rear at big conferences where we have to make a good impression. It turns out that Sir Mix-A-Lot, he of “Baby Got Back” fame, was not a novelty but a prophet. Who knew? Give that guy a Cabinet post.
Although Black, is that all this writer could think about with respect to Michelle? Michelle’s intelligence and sophistication stands out more to us than her backs. Does Michelle’s donk deserve this attention?
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I LOVE this lady .. she is truly an inspiration to me. She is really a woman of substance.
michelle is the truth. a true meaning of a dime piece. when i think about me not being married and thinking theirs no good sistas out there, i c a sista like this.well educated. and btw her ***** sitting nice as hell. legs and thighs for days. plus that smile nice…no disrespect to the 1st family..but michelle body nice.
@ I Got It…
Though I think the writer of the article should have come correct instead of talking about the First Lady’s *****. That’s some ridiculousness right there. Can you see Fox News talking about M.O.’s big *****? Why do we give a p***** to this kind of nonsense to anyone. Now that’s it’s out there, any mainstream news outlet could discuss her *****, in the context of reporting on this article. It’s so stupid.
black girls always have had the bootys and the lips and the high cheekbones any other race is a imitator!
Out of all of Michelle Obama’s academic and intellectual accomplishments, all this man could comment on was her buttocks? Some things never change.
IMO, Michelle Obama is a cl*****y and intelligent woman.
We just made a giant step forward having her husband elected to be our next president.
Now we take a step back by some writer releasing an article on how her butt looks.
Why is this even necessary?
You know these people who describe azzez must have neva seen normal azzez before. I swear they need to get out and see the world.
I’m glad she has an accurate God Made figure.
@ Purpple… lmao, so true.
It is normal. And I’m speaking as a white woman who was teased most of my life for having a ‘black butt’…
yeah i got tired of seeing the grandma looking 1st ladies. michelle is fly
Umm, I think the writer is a woman…”Actually, it took me and a lot of other similarly configured black women by surprise.”
And I think this article is ridiculous and inane. WTH, are we gonna start talking about her bra size next? Sheesh…
@ Kimberlee, stop trying to get black dudes to holler at you on the Michelle Obama thread. LOL
Stupid….Stupid….Stupid…Stupid
Yes- Mrs Obama has a nice body and face
No- It isnt neccesary to try and hypersexualise (if thats a word)her. They do that to us enough already
How many articles like this have you all seen about previous 1st ladies? i think it is a disgrace that with all this women has accomplished there are people writing these types of articles about her.
it is sad really and it figures that BOSSIP would run it, BOSSIP’s main objective is to diss Black women and Michelle OBAMA is next on BOSSIP’s list..just wait and see.