*Man, folks try to get away with anything when they think no one is watching.
So on newsstands in Spain for the August cover of Magazine Fuera de Serie, First Lady Michelle Obama sports an American flag … and nothing else. In fact, her nipple is showing.
While she’d probably never pose for a photo like this, one has to ask about the motivation behind such a risqué depiction of someone who should be regarded with respect.
She looks like a Playboy slave, waiting for her master to seduce her. It’s weird.
One black British writer explains the gesture is blatant racism that somehow almost got overlooked.
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This isn’t the first time European media has attempted to push things under the radar with no apology.
Remember that time when Dutch magazine, “Jackie,” wrote a story about Rihanna with the headline “Niggabitch?”
But this time, Michelle’s article is accompanied with a controversial headline: “Michelle Tataranieta De Esclava, Dueña De América” (Michelle Granddaughter of a Slave, Lady of America).
The cover artwork is actually a mashup created by French/English artist Karine Percheron-Daniels and is a play on an enslaved African Guadeloupean painted by French artist Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist in the 1800s.
Racism or not, the piece is a part of a series of famous nudes-Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II, Abraham Lincoln, and President Barack Obama.
The artist says the piece offers, “an alternative unexpected reality,” that allows you to, “view famous individuals in a different way.”
Check out the full opinion piece on Clutchmagonline.com.
Wow, I don’t even have the words……..
Diva, me either other than sue their asses into bankruptcy! Sickening
Unless you’re standing in a KKK museum?,HTF is this…”art”!!? It’s degrading fkn trash!!! And where are all the “feminist groups”!?? Notice how they NEVVA seem to “stand up” for ANY “women of color”! You would get a quicker response, for wearing some fkn….”fur”! But you would “THINk” “this” being a stab a Our 1st lady, they would make a damn….exception!! See?, like I posted yesterday….”there IS no “Left”, only the Right and the “farrrrr” Right! And Obie & every other POTUS finds that shyt out, “AFTER” getting elected in that looo g “breafing” they get. They are “told” what to do & what NOT to do, & threatened if they dare do otherwise (remember that fkn couple who “crashed the party”!? An example to Obie, of just how “easy it would be” to etc…!) This is why the “Left” NEVVA. “swings back/responds to all the Right’s BS!! And with all the “amo” the Right giiiiiiives the Left?, it would be soooooo eeeeeeeazy to fk them up & take them out of ANY race. But nooooo “not a peep” from the Left, even after being consistently …lied on!!!, & now….”this”!!?? Yo, “We The People” are the only “true Left”, that remain. And if we weren’t dumbed down by all this BS reality TV vouyerism, bigotry & fear, We would be aware of the fact, that “We” control ….them, & not the other way around. If only we’d wake the fk up, “pick up the remote” & simply…..change the fkn channel. Chuuuuuuuch!
Ps….oh!, & don’t get it twisted!!!…this “SHYT” may say its from the “Spanish”?, but TRUST!!!, it’s the American “Rightwingers” facilitating this BS! When have we EVVA had foreign countries disrespect Us, so bold & blatantly !!?? NEVVA, not nevva!! (said like Katt!) No matter where they say the “post mark” is from, ALL this racist BS only comes from “THE” “factory”….USA. Beleeeeeedat!
Straight up!?, this is that “Jackie Robinson” BS, they made HIM go through, proving that in all these years?, YT is still as weak AND “too dumb to learn”,as they were before! Hold yo head, Obie!!!! The “ugly” ain’t over yet. One!
And hey y’all!, go to “Addicting Info.com” & actually “see” how these muthafkahs ain’t fkn “buuuuudged” from his they use to think! Type in “Rosevelt Re-election Speech” or simply “google” it! Rosevelt blasted the FK outta dat azz, exposing the Right’s using “Hitler tactics”. Check it out!
By now, Ike, JFK, LBJ and Nixon, would have dispatched the CIA to deal with the rabid dogs responsible for this insult. This disrespect demands satisfaction. Here’s a link that shows the original painting and this travesty. There must be a reckoning.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/michelle-obama-face-superimposed-spanish-magazine-famous-painting-slave-article-1.1146020
by Brande Victorian
Yes, that’s who you think it is. The wife of Barack Obama, the right-hand woman of the Commander-in-Chief of our nation, the First Lady of the United States; naked, nude, depicted as a slave on the cover of the August issue of the Spanish magazine, Fuera de Serie. Seated wrapped in an American flag, with one breast exposed, and a wrap around her head in the likeness of the famous Afro-Guadeloupean female slave painted by French artist Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist in 1800, the weekly lifestyle supplement to the Spanish newspaper Expansión wants to convey como “Michelle Se Come A Obama (Michelle eats Obama).”
It’s hard to say which came first, the clever headline that accompanies the feature on the Flotus, “Michelle Tataranieta De Esclava, Dueña De América” (Michelle great-great granddaughter of a slave, owner of America) or the brilliant idea to use artist Karine Percheron-Daniels’ nude image of her. But one thing that is consistently clear throughout the entire piece, whether by imagery or word choice, is the idea that Michelle Obama is and always will be a slave in far too many people’s eyes, no matter how far we’re removed from physical enslavement, and how high of a position she’s climbed to in society.
Before even dissecting the slave imagery depicted throughout this article, on the surface is a simple form of disrespect that is undeniable —the First Lady of the United States in the nude. Michelle Obama is far from being the only person Percheron-Daniels has recreated in this way, in fact she’s developed an entire series of “famous nudes” that includes portraits of Princess Diana, Eva Peron, Albert Einstein, and even Barack Obama in the buff. Though I can’t be completely certain, I’m almost sure none of those images has been plastered on the cover of a magazine in such a distasteful way, however. Not to mention, I would be shocked to find someone had the audacity to paint any of our other previous first ladies (or presidents for that matter) in such a way. And what’s most interesting is that despite being nude, all of the famous figures are shown naked with either a blank canvas behind them or elements that were relative to the time and place in which they existed. The same can’t be said of Michelle Obama, who it’s clear many would like to still think of as a slave, but who is a free woman, and a descendant of a free woman, who is also a descendant of a free woman. So why the slave representation?
According to Clutch, Percheron-Daniels wanted to showcase an “alternative unexpected reality” that allows us to “view famous individuals in a different way.” Michelle Obama as a slave isn’t all that unexpected, unfortunately, and it’s interesting how none of her other nude subjects are depicted in such a so-called alternative way. Digging herself into an even bigger hole, the artist says transforming Michelle Obama into Benoist’s slave figure was done “for obvious reasons.” So obvious, that she neglected to explain them, so allow me to fill in the blanks. The obvious reason is Michelle Obama is an obvious and proven descendant of slaves and the powers that be would never want her or any other negro/negriss to forget that no matter how far they climb up the socio-economic or political ladder, they (we) are and will always be nothing more than someone else’s laborers. We will always answer and be owned by someone else. And no matter how many rights we legally obtain, we will never be free. By choosing to use such a jarring image to tell the story of how America’s first lady “seduced the people of the United States” and “stole the heart of Barack Obama,” as Fuera de Serie describes her, it’s clear the magazine agrees with that mentality and wants to spread the message loud and clear: todavía estamos esclavos. We are still slaves. It’s a good thing there are more Barack and Michelle’s out here who are determined to prove that slave mentality false.
trippin. God is good. as when the Jews left Egyptian slavery and we do not forget their previous identity, lets not confuse enslavement of Africans as the definition of their identity. bless.
Also…..to claim this is from the “Spanish”?, is merely another attempt of keeping Us separated & fighting each other! YT would luuuuuuv that shyt to continue, so that they don’t haaaaaave to “get in the ring”/get their hands dirty OR get their azzes kicked!! So We should stay fcocussed ‘on “YT”, as he is OBVIOULY ….”focussed ‘on Us”!! Chuuuuuuch!
It is Spanish because it is a periodical in the country of Spain. That makes it “Spanish”. People in the America’s who speak a form of Spanish are not Spanish. The same as Americans speak a form of English however, that does not make us Englanders.
Last of the Frozen Chosin and one of the Chosin Few
Sorry…. “GD iphonnnnnne”!!!! Should be…”we should stay “focussed” ‘on YT, as he is “OBVIOUSLY”….focussed ‘on “Us”!!
Fuera de Serie is a periodical in Spain. This publication is published in the European country of Spain.
Last of the Frozen Chosin and one of the Chosin Few
Hey mayn…I know “all that”!?, but still, my post remains…truthful they are using EVERYway possible to divert attention away from Mit, & that includes this….”misplaced blame”!. Beleeeeedat!
I’m not usually one to throw out the racist card vs cultural insensitivity..but this is racist. There’s no logical justification for it. While I don’t agree that this is was orchestrated to have anyone not look at Romney, there was definetly some effort put into choosing a completley off-base cover. There’s two things here. I think the artist is deluded to think that this is even really art. You can’t, essentially, jack a classical piece of art, and destroy it by creating something complely offensive. The orginal work can be seem as a classical piece of art that depicted women as they were often portrayed…the subject just happens to be black. This is photoshopped crap.
Two, any idiot could have done a Google search and found a lot pictures of Michelle Obama. If this was the good cover art idea, I would love to see the bad one. What I would like to see is the Obama administration publicly condemn the magazine. It might not change anything, but it would at least be taking a stand against the disrespect that the Obamas have faced.
Amen!!! But I ask?….who’s “characteristics” are these resembling!? Like who ELSE has been slanging this shyt, against Obie & his family, in this racist tone!!?? Answer…..The Right. So…it is a reason connection to make, that The Right IS behind this, no matter how many “layers back”!! I suggest?, there ain’t even “that many” layers & Stevie Wonder can see dat. All Day!