Fox News which many in the African American Community consider racist has taken it's attacks on Michelle Obama to a whole new level. On a broadcast on 06/11/08 they refereed to Michelle Obama as "Obama Baby Mama". Don't take my word for it look at the picture below on which they use the term in their on air graphic.
So much for fair and balanced. There is no way even the racist leaning Fox producers and host did not know this was wrong. I mean just dead wrong. Maybe a bunch of elitist white producers thought they were being hip or cool but calling Michelle Obama a "baby's mama" is uncalled for. Especially for what is supposed to be a professional news organization.
For those that think it's just a joke or that baby mama is a term of endearment let me define Baby's Mama.
A baby's mama is just some girl that a guy gets pregnant. Just some girl he had sex with. This person is no one he wants to be with or marry. If he had been a thinking with the right head there is no way in hell he would have gotten her pregnant. If a guy would refers to a woman as a baby's mama it shows he does not have much respect for her.
Michelle Obama is a lot more than that. She is far from any damned baby's mama. She could well be the next first lady of the United States and should be treated with the dignity and respect she has earned. She should be given the respect that ANY women should be given regardless of her place in society.
Leave it to Fox News to keep giving traction to those that believe they are anything but fair and balanced. Can anyone name another cable news outlet where this would have been accepatable?
George Cook www.letstalkhonestly.com
george@letstalkhonestly.com
1 comments:
The term baby mama is offensive no matter what woman it is aimed at. This kind of behavior is only a precursor of what we can expect to see as the election continues. They will pull ever sort of racial and gender sterotype that they can.
Remember it was just last week that the Obama girls were displayed in a work of art with the depiction nappy headed hos. I think that we will find that the Obama women will have to endure far more than HRC did, simply do to the standing of WOC on the racial and gender hierarchy scale.
We have already seen what kind of treatment black women in politics get from the treatment of Cynthia McKinney. Black women only matter when we can be exploited or marginalized. This is a war and the only way to win is to recognize it as such. We must call them out when they make racist and sexist commentary. It is not enough to say this is what we expect from FOX news...So much for us being 90% there. I guess Barack was wrong on that one, and his family will learn that lesson all to soon if they don't already know it.
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