Little black power dress

Well, I knew it wouldn't take long for the angrysphere to attack newly-elected US President Barack Obama but the honeymoon appears to be over even for his wife, Michelle.

Sure didn't take long for Fox hounds to go after the First lady, reverting to their ''angry black woman'' and ''Obama's baby mama'' rhetoric. (See last week's column here for more on that.)

According to Media Matters,

On The O'Reilly Factor, Juan Williams again baselessly attacked first lady Michelle Obama, claiming that "her instinct is to start with this 'blame America' ... stuff." Williams asserted that Michelle Obama's "instinct" is to "blame America" or be "the victim," and said she has "this Stokely Carmichael-in-a-designer-dress thing going." Williams also said that she could be a "liabilit[y]" or an "albatross" for President Barack Obama. Williams previously claimed Michelle Obama sometimes uses "this kind of militant anger."

Uh, on what?

At least O'Really had the decency to question his guest's insane accusations. Watch:

UPPITY WOMEN DATE: Here's an interesting counter-take:

Williams' statement makes me angry not because it's about Michelle, but because it's so manifestly not about her, but about black women in general. And maybe with some kind of messed up, terrible rationalization I can divorce myself from what happens in Hip-hop because I know Jeezy isn't talking about my mama. But when people talk about Michelle like this, they're talking about this universe of brilliant, accomplished black women who never seem to get their due. They're talking about the women I know; my mother, my aunts, my cousins. And it makes me furious. But of course we've been here before, and the last time a first lady got this kind of treatment her name was Hillary Clinton. We've changed the particulars to fit Michelle's cultural context, but ultimately nothing has really changed.

Comments

[skdadl]

Heavens. Someone who can actually make O'Reilly sound by comparison like a reasonable human being. That is an accomplishment.

[deBeauxOs]

Juan Williams. A one-trick pony who has built a career on chastizing African-Americans for not rising above racist and cultural stereotypes.

It's your basic 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' scenario and Juan Williams has cast himself as judge and jury.

He seems to have forgotten (or perhaps never knew) St Augustine's observation: "Hope has two children: anger and courage. Anger at the way things are, and the courage to change them."

One wonders if Juan actually does anything concrete to change the way things are or whether he merely gets paid a lot of money for attacking people like Michelle Obama, who get angry and act for change.

[hysperia]

"Stokely Carmichael-in-a-designer-dress thing going on"?

As I said in a previous comment, I haven't lost my ability to be shocked. Call me naive ...

[The Stygian and his Shemitish Dogs]

"this Stokely Carmichael-in-a-designer-dress thing going."

he should have said "this Eldridge Cleaver-in-a-designer-dress thing going."

then somebody could have pointed out that Eldridge Cleaver saw the light later on in life (after a visit to Cuba, apparently), and maybe Michelle Obama will as well . . . .

[Barb Pearce]

Re: "her instinct is to start with this 'blame America' ... stuff."

What gets me about the freaky Fox people who get so upset about the "Blame America" thing is that they ignore the fact that America is sometimes to blame.

Michelle Obama's instinct is to point out the truth.

I wasn't sure about Obama in the beginning. Then came the uproar over Reverend Wright......I figured the outrage was about his association with a lunatic fundementalist...

Then I watched the video on You Tube.......Had I lived in Chicago, I would have gone to church the next Sunday. If that was what Obama heard every Sunday? He was the man.

Watch the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQ

Watch a few of his videos on youtube.

He may be a little over zealous....I've not heard all his views, but he sure seems to tell it like it is.

Can anyone tell me what is so outrageous about this sermon? Or any others?

[Antonia Zerbisias]

This is the Super Cynical Antonia talking:

The Problem with Wright was his name wasn't Haggard? or is it that he is straight?

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/01/ted-haggard-a-t.html

[Barb Pearce]

He is straight and married

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Wright

The outrage was that in his post 911 sermon, he asked why the U.S. was a target. Then he went on in the most entertaining way to point out what the U.S. had done to other countries... He famously summed it up by saying "The Chickens......have come home to roost"

Then there was outrage because of a National Press Club Speech. I only saw the part where he was accused of making fun of Ted Kennedy and LBJ. But what he was pointing out was that White America complain loudly, and see black culture pronounciations as inferior. So he would say a word with a Kennedy Boston accent, ask what the pronounced word meant (Paaauk the caaaa. What is a paaauk?) and question why White America never attacked white accents the way they attack Black accents. It was actually funny....and a great point.

I'm sure he has some pretty outrageous views. I haven't seen those yet.

[The Stygian and his Shemitish Dogs]

Barb,

"Can anyone tell me what is so outrageous about this sermon? Or any others?"

Where do I start? If M'Kain had actually wanted to win, he would have used those videos in his campaign ads every day.

And you really should get out more. White America (Canada too, for that matter) makes fun of non-American "white accents" all the time, and Black America, as it were, joins in.