A Spanish magazine has a cover picture of the First Lady's face photoshopped onto a painting commemorating the abolition of slavery in France. It is an image likely to be taken the wrong way by many on both sides, but ought to be seen as a tribute to all Black women in America.
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From ThinkProgress
Fuera de Serie, a Spanish magazine, has created an international uproar with its latest cover, in which it photoshops First Lady Michelle Obama into a French painting, and ends up portraying her as a slave woman, with her right breast exposed. If the cover had been published in America, it’s easy to imagine the quarters from which it might have come, and what the image would have been intended to convey. But the full context is much more complicated—and much more revealing—than that.
I don’t think the intention of the cover is to be racist, or to denigrate Mrs. Obama in any way. In the editor’s note introducing the issue in which the story appears, Fuera de Serie explains, roughly translated, that the author, “in order to understand the manner in which Michelle has seduced the American people, the journalist Pablo Scarpellini details the secrets of the woman who has not only conquered the heart of Barack Obama.” The title is “Michelle: Granddaughter of a Slave, Lady of America,” which suggests her as a powerful symbol of the American experience, though it’s off by a couple of generations. The article itself may turn out to be less positive, but that kind of language doesn’t indicate a desire to sell a vision of Michelle Obama as a slave. Marie-Guillemine Benoist, who painted the work Obama is photoshopped into as a commemoration of the French abolition of slavery, was explicitly a feminist, and her work, when it was first exhibited, was interpreted as humanist.
Click on the TP link to see the picture. It is, to my mind, a vision of a new Lady Liberty, a confident and empowered Black Woman who could be an inspiration to all given the dirty end of the stick. We might well have elected the wrong Obama, much as I like Barack.
BTW, don't beat me up over bare boobs. I am a grand dad with two grandsons still nursing. I know from boobs. You know the term 'alma mater'. It's what you call the school you went to, that prepared you for life in this most hostile of worlds. It is the Nursing Mother to whom you owe your life.
If the GOP is the 'Daddy Party', the sort of Dad that whips off his belt and beats you half to death while drunk and slaps your mother around, then the Dems should be the 'Boobie Party' that loves you, and does its best to sustain you. Maybe they aren't quite that good (OK, they're politicians, and evolved like the rest of us from pond scum), but compare and contrast, as our high school and college exams always asked.