I just read the original post and I have to give this response to those people:
get a life...no one who has one really cares about that...
--- On Wed, 1/28/09, keithbjohn...@comcast.net <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>
wrote:
From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>
Subject: [scifinoir2] OT: Michelle Obama Getting Some Criticism for Choice of
Designers
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 4:25 PM
My take...keith
I sympathize and empathize, but one black family can't be everything for all
black people. What about her jewelry, her shoes, her hairdo--any of them from
black folks? And if not, is that a sin? What about the fact that the family
went
to a majority-black church for years? That Obama did his community organizer
work in the black community, or that his main barber is a black man? That they
happen to
*be* black people and seem to love and respect their people? That they by their
very existence
and successes do far more for us than any choice of clothing designer could
ever do?
This is not at all unexpected, since the Presidency is something no person of
color has ever ascended to since the founding of the Republic. And I confess
that I have my own criticisms at times about famous stars and leaders who i
feel
don't support black enterprises enough. But at the end of the day, it's the
aggregate of what we as a people do. If the Obama's don't wear black-designed
clothes, let's credit them for all the ways they do support blacks, and then
each of us do our part to support black people. In a situation where the
Obama's
literally have to please the entire planet Earth in some way or another, I'm
not
going to be this hard on Michelle. After all--ever seen her little girls' hair
when
they're just chilling on vacation or something? If that don't represent support
of black haircare products, I don't know what does!!
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From: "Cinque3000" <cinque3...@verizon. net>
> Black Artists Association Co-Founder Slams Michelle Obama's "Kumbaya"
> Designer Picks
> >
>
> Update 1/27:
>
> According to WWD, Black Artists Association co-founder Amnau Eele has
> received death threats in response to her public criticism of Michelle Obama
> for not wearing an African-American designer to the inauguration.
>
> >
> She told the magazine, "We don't represent designers, we represent painters.
> We spoke up for black designers because we felt it was the right thing to
> do."
>
>
> Eele is planning a forum on African-American designers and their careers in
> New York next month.
>
>
> Original post 1/26:
>
> The Michelle Obama fashion backlash has begun, as far as the Black Artists
> Association is concerned. The group is publicly chiding the First Lady for
> not wearing an African-American designer during any of the inaugural
> festivities. On inauguration day, Obama wore Cuban-American designer Isabel
> Toledo, and at night she wore a gown by Taiwan-born designer Jason Wu.
>
>
> BAA's founder Amnau Eele, a former model, told WWD:
>
> "It's fine and good if you want to be all 'Kumbaya' and 'We Are the World'
> by representing all different countries. But if you are going to have Isabel
> Toledo do the inauguration dress, and Jason Wu do the evening gown, why not
> have Kevan Hall, B Michael, Stephen Burrows or any of the other black
> designers do something too?" Eele said.
