is michelle obama being treated like a modern day saartjie bartmann


	is michelle obama being treated like a modern day saartjie bartmann

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5-2-2009 12:05 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ce760c6f-59bd-4d7d-ad29-923adf19db91/624010B1-E227-4523-AE9E-CDB80044A8D0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://jezebel.com/5234057/is-michelle-obama-being-treated-like-a-modern-day-sarah-bartmann" href="http://jezebel.com/5234057/is-michelle-obama-being-treated-like-a-modern-day-sarah-bartmann" style="font-size: 11px;">jezebel.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jezebel.com/5234057/is-michelle-obama-being-treated-like-a-modern-day-sarah-bartmann"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/jezebel.com/img/33B4AE02-1E0E-4BF3-8E08-861F91DC89C9" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jezebel.com/5234057/is-michelle-obama-being-treated-like-a-modern-day-sarah-bartmann"><H1><A class="top" href="http://jezebel.com/5234057/is-michelle-obama-being-treated-like-a-modern-day-sarah-bartmann">Is Michelle Obama Being Treated Like A Modern Day Sarah Bartmann?</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jezebel.com/5234057/is-michelle-obama-being-treated-like-a-modern-day-sarah-bartmann"><P class="small">Last night, Larry King <A href="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/05/01/lkl.michelle.long.cnn">devoted most of his show</A> to <A href="http://jezebel.com/tag/michelle-obama/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged MICHELLE OBAMA" class="autolink">Michelle Obama</A>. Not her accomplishments, her appearance. (Related: <A href="http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/fashion/2009/05/01/2009-05-01_first_lady_michelle_obama_kicks_in_own_foot_feat_for_fashionistas_lanvin.html">She wears shoes</A>!) We asked <A href="http://www.racialicious.com/">Racialicious'</A> <A href="http://jezebel.com/tag/latoya-peterson/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged LATOYA PETERSON" class="autolink">Latoya Peterson</A> to weigh in on this strange, seemingly widespread obsession.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jezebel.com/5234057/is-michelle-obama-being-treated-like-a-modern-day-sarah-bartmann"><BLOCKQUOTE>A prominent White male scholar who has done much to challenge scientific racism apparently felt few qualms at using a slide of Sarah Bartmann as part of his PowerPoint presentation. Leaving her image on screen for several minutes with a panel of speakers that included Black women seated on stage in front of the slide, this scholar told jokes about the seeming sexual interests of White voyeurs of the nineteenth century. He seemed incapable of grasping how his own twentieth-century use of this image as well as his invitation that audience members become voyeurs along with him, reinscribed Sarah Bartmann as an "object...a mallebale 'thing'" upon which he projected his own agenda. (p. 142)</BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/624010B1-E227-4523-AE9E-CDB80044A8D0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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