Let's see:
- Michelle and Barack have a picture of Bin Laden above the fireplace mantle.
- They are burning the American flag
- Barack is in "traditional" Muslim Wear
- Michelle is militant, with a gun, and instead of her relaxed hair, she has now decided for an afro, because you know an afro is practically screaming from the rooftops "BLACK POWER"
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Where's her beret? (kidding)
It got lost in the afro :)
the new yorker claims it is supposed to be a satire about the right-wings' views on Obama, but no one is going to believe it.
Siditty: Don't forget braids were called a political statement by that magazine editor earlier this year. I wasn't aware that my head was a living breathing message board on a mission.
No one's going to buy their "satire" story unless they do a cover of John McCain with a cane screaming at children to get off his lawn, complete with oxygen tank, IV drip, and colostomy bag; his wife can be face down in a mountain of prescription pill bottles and bogus prescriptions. The house must be decorated with only the latest in stark WASPy furnishings (handed down for the last 18 generations--more of the same year after year) and the skeletons of his past positions he flip-flopped after he lost to JugEars the first time he ran and all the badness his campaign has done since he ran this cycle are escaping the closet.
the new yorker claims it is supposed to be a satire about the right-wings' views on Obama, but no one is going to believe it.
I'm not really buying it. Why not put a caption on the cover to emphasize the satire.
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Siditty: Don't forget braids were called a political statement by that magazine editor earlier this year. I wasn't aware that my head was a living breathing message board on a mission. No one's going to buy their "satire" story unless they do a cover of John McCain with a cane screaming at children to get off his lawn, complete with oxygen tank, IV drip, and colostomy bag; his wife can be face down in a mountain of prescription pill bottles and bogus prescriptions. The house must be decorated with only the latest in stark WASPy furnishings (handed down for the last 18 generations--more of the same year after year) and the skeletons of his past positions he flip-flopped after he lost to JugEars the first time he ran and all the badness his campaign has done since he ran this cycle are escaping the closet.
Nothing says politics like braids LOL
I am not holding my breathe on the McCain cover, but it would be fun to see Cindy McCain all high on prescription drugs.
"I'm not really buying it. Why not put a caption on the cover to emphasize the satire."
The New Yorker has no captions on its cover, ever.
The New Yorker can do what they like. Barack Obama will still win.
Racialicious had an interesting term to describe this little piece of journalistic offering, hipster racism. In my opinion satire is most effective if your target audience gets it. If you help to enforce the idea that you're supposed to be lampooning you're not being satirical.
You know, the cover pisses me off, but the part that REALLy gets to me, is that Michelle Obama is featured on the cover, embodying every negative stereotype for Black women.
New Yorker cover with Cindy McCain popping pills, rolling in her millions while an immigrant cook makes her "homemade recipes": I kan haz?
Or a New Yorker cover with Laura Bush as a puppet sneaking a cigarette while looking dead in the eyes?
They won't touch these women, but for some reason, it's open season on Michelle Obama.
The New Yorker can suck it.
it's things like this that make me wanna throw bricks!
Satire or not, this IS how a lot of white Americans see the Obamas.
I was reading another blog and one person commented that she saw Michelle as a militant Angela Davis. This is despite the fact that Michelle is very stylish, girly and is a wife and mother.
look: i am here trying to do some fundraising, and this is WAY off topic - but u r killing me!!!!!!!!
(wipes tears from eyes)... i was tempted to bite at you and the white hubby thingee post.. but this is TOO rich... off topic i go - looka: it was funny as heck to me (and in bad taste.. but hey). problem is, i surmise, that many americans may not have the frontal development to work it out.....
seriously though: i am reaching the perpective that perhaps, unlike much of the rest of the world, americans have no concept that in this world there are intelligent young family men, and their equally intelligent and sucessful wives, who can and do run things bigger than their household. and that the majority of these people might be non-white.
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