This is my very real letter to the Editor.
Don't laugh it is not funny
Dear New Yorker editor and staff,
I'm writing this to say thanks! Thanks for making it hard (and darn near impossible) for me to wear my natural hair to a job interview (for fear that I will be seen as an angry black woman).
More after the jump.
Dear New Yorker editor and staff,
I'm writing this to say thanks! Thanks for making it hard (and darn near impossible) for me to wear my natural hair to a job interview (for fear that I will be seen as an angry black woman). Thanks for furthering that stereotype in your characterization of Michelle Obama. Actually, when I think about it aren't all us black women just charterers that can be easily interchanged. I mean come on, Michelle Obama and Angela Davis are totally like the same person. Thanks for reminding me. For that matter, by virtue of this email, heck even I must be an angry black woman (don't tell my husband).
I just love the way that Michelle was poorly drawn and reduced to a bunch of general stereotypes. It must have been really, really hard to come up with that cartoonish cartoon of her. Oh and let me also just thank you for the bottom of my heart for even drawing her, because (until now) I did not know she was running for president. I thought she was just a wife and mother. Actually, strike that, we all know us black women are never really just wives or mothers we are busy training the next generation of little black militants. Thanks for reminding me of that. Also, thanks for reminding me (that in general) us black folks still really don't love this country. Heck, I even bet that General Colin Powell is a closet America hater.
Thanks for reminding me that African Americans aren't real Americans. I mean even though my name is Scott, I'm still really scary and foreign.
So anyways, I would like to end by reminding you that your cover, will of course in no way make life harder for any of us non working angry black woman out there. I would also like to send a heart felt thanks for keeping racial stereotypes alive for at least another year.
Heck, if the New Yorker won't do it, these poor little stereotypes (that of course people never use to make judgements are hiring decisions on) might be forgotten, and then where will our (I mean to say your) great country be then? Seriously, do we really want to live in a country with out racial stereotypes? I think not.
Angrily yours (and forever grateful),
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P.S. I gave your cover a nice slow golf clap. Well played sir, well played.