Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Michelle Obama, racist cracker

It seems that Michelle Obama isn't black enough.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports the First Lady is under fire by Amnau Eele, co-founder of the Black Artists Association, for her selection of designers. Or for who she didn't choose:

In an interview with the Sun-Times, Eele said that she wants the First Lady to know there are other, lesser-known designers that the First Lady should take a look at.

"You know, I have an issue that every day I meet young black designers that are facing homelessness, they can't buy fabric, they can't get the things they need," she said. "We have qualified designers in the community. A young man like Michael Knight (of Project Runway) -- surely you could have worn a scarf by him, a Tshirt, a handbag."


Heh. Apparently, to some, Michelle Obama isn't black enough. She must wear "black" clothes, too.

Martin Luther King wanted people to just his children "(not) by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." It seems that only applied to the late Yolanda, and only still applies to Martin III, Dexter, and Bernice. It seems it's okay to judge others by their color. And by the color of their clothing designers.

It's not enough to be black. You must shop black. Equality doesn't mean ... well, equality. Equality means favoritism.

Welcome to our world, Michelle.

4 comments:

  1. in the 30's a white woman said that a black man looked at her and white men rushed to lynch that man with no proof.

    in 2009 a white woman said a black woman said "we are the world," "kumbaya "and" it's our momen"t and the world including blacks rushed to lynch a black woman named amnau eele with no proof.

    In tomorrow's washington , D.C. newspaper, the paper will publish all the e-mail interviews between WWD and amnau eele .

    and guess what?

    I heard on the radio here, that amnau eele didn't make not one of those quotes in the WWD article.

    not one.

    All of those Quotes belonged to the WWD writer.

    This is going to be huge.

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  2. I found the real story of what happened to Amnau Eele at WWD.

    After reading the story by Washington Post writer and Huffington Post contributor Joyce Moore,

    I am left wondering if Ms.Eele is sitting at the table ready to prove with her e-mail interviews that she never made those statements, then why is WWD not willing to come to that table and prove she made those comments?

    I called WWD and they said no comments.

    Wolfe Blitzer is asking the same question on CNN, during the "Situation Room's"

    " Black Designers Are Upset With First Lady Michelle Obama" segement.

    What's really tragic about all of this, is that a black woman that simply asked where are the black designers in the first lady's closet at the White house?

    and how do we encourage young black children too aspire to design, if there are no black designers as role models?

    Got lynched by the media and bloggers all over the world, based on a story that was not fact checked in the Bernard Madoff era.

    Did any one of you think maybe WWD saw a way to sell their paper in bad financial times?

    The WWD writer is now famous and WWD sold out both days that Ms. Eele's story ran.

    I called WWD to buy extra copies and I was told they were sold out on both issues of the paper.

    Support of black designers and black design students will provide jobs for people of all colors and maybe the black youth and many black males will be able to get jobs in design and retail, instead of selling drugs or going to jail as an option.

    President Obama's half brother was arrested for selling drugs as a poor black man in a poor African country, support of black designers and all designers in the retail industry can provide jobs for poor people like Mr. Obama all over the world , no matter their skin color.

    Instead of selling drugs , I'd rather see Mr. Obama work for a black designer or consider design as a career instead of drug dealing.

    I am white and I work for a black designer of jewelry, and without his designs , i would have no job and I couldn't pay my rent.

    J, Crew, Tracy Feith and Jason Wu are swimming in orders and cash from the first lady's support, but not black designers..

    No, ms. Eele was right!! Change came on Jan 20, 2009, but not for black designers.

    here's the interviews that i found on the internet:

    http://jemiltd.bravejournal.com

    http://affilliate.kickapps.com/service/display/kickplace.kickaction?u=2373825&as=16936

    http://www.oprah.com/community/blogs/jemiltd/2009/01/30/amnau-eele-the-real-story

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com

    http://www.youtube.com/jemiltd

    I think "The Media Lynching" of Amnau Eele is going to be a large, but very sad story.

    I've learned a lot from this poor woman's sad story.

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  3. THANK YOU AMNAU EELE FOR ALL OF YOUR EFFORTS TO HELP BLACK DESIGNERS AND YOUNG BLACK KIDS ENTERING DESIGN SCHOOL.

    THE FIRST LADY OF AMERICA HAS FINALLY CHOSEN TO WEAR A DRESS BY BLACK DESIGNER TRACY REESE ON THE COVER OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE.

    MS.EELE IS THE ONLY HUMAN BEING WORLDWIDE TO HAVE THE INTELLIGENCE TO BRING THIS ISSUE TO THE PUBLIC'S ATTENTION. MS. EELE WAS A PIONEER IN THE MODELING INDUSTRY IN THE 70'S, SHE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST BLACK WOMEN TO GRACE THE PAGES OF PARIS VOGUE AND TO WALK THE RUNWAYS FOR EVERY MAJOR DESIGNER WORLDWIDE AND TODAY SHE IS A PIONEER AGAIN.

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  4. She has a great opportunity to give black designers a boost and would be supporting America at the same time. She does wear a Tracy Reese dress on the cover of People magazine but enough J. Crew already. J. Crew is laying off people and everything in their catalog is IMPORTED.

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