Addicted to Race 70: Michelle Obama
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 70) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen and Sylvia discuss how race, gender and feminism are intersecting in some of the recent media coverage about Michelle Obama, wife of presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Guest co-host Sylvia is a pseudonymous blogger in Baltimore, MD. She is currently a law student, and she writes about a variety of issues, including race and gender, human rights, and pop culture at The Anti-Essentialist Conundrum. She also blogs at AfroSpear, a newly formed online think tank devoted to developing solutions and to discussing issues related to the African Diaspora.
Articles and web sites mentioned in this episode:
- JLove Calderon’s web site
- “White Like Me” by JLove (will launch PDF)
- “Diversity Training Doesn’tWork. Here’s Why.” by Carmen Van Kerckhove
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dnA wrote:
Carmen,
Did you happen to see Byron Crawford at XXL’s post on Michelle Obama? He called her a “hoe” and a “quota hire”.
Posted 05 Jun 2007 at 11:55 am ¶
Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:
Ugh yeah I did. Wendi sent me a link to it. Let’s not throw any link love his way.
I know he’s trying to be funny, but you know that that 80% of his audience takes it at face value. It’s ridiculous how XXL continues to give him a platform.
Posted 05 Jun 2007 at 12:16 pm ¶
LM wrote:
Whatever you think of Byron Crawford, that’s par for the course… less surprising than Imus. That’s part of his shtick.
Posted 05 Jun 2007 at 1:13 pm ¶
dnA wrote:
I don’t really care if its part of his “schtick”. It’s not really “schtick” when you’re deliberately parroting conservative misinformation, it’s one thing for him to confine his stupidity to Hip-hop criticism, but if he wants to talk politics he needs to be held accountable.
Posted 05 Jun 2007 at 2:36 pm ¶
April wrote:
I think it’s a damn shame that Michelle doesn’t “milk” the feminists for all it’s worth. Feminism is not a loaded term, but people who believe it is are loaded and full of shit themselves. Ignorance breeds ignorance. I’m voting for Barack myself, there are other reasons why Hillary isn’t much of a feminist herself. Her husband cheated on her for the whole world to know, and the fact that she stayed with him is detestable and does not represent a strong woman. The fact that she didn’t drop his ass is a damn shame.
Now, why aren’t black women into feminism? Well let’s see… because we don’t get enough coverage in the media. Hell, look at the Imus incident? It wasn’t black women who represented those young women, it was Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton. Where were the women? If we want to change that, we need to unite and fight the media and how they portray that women of color feminists do not exist. We do.
Posted 06 Jun 2007 at 8:35 pm ¶