The ‘Hustle

Well, now that we have a black president, it follows that we’d have a black First Lady. Unlike many successful brothers, the POTUS got himself a bona fide chocolate cutie as his misses.

And boy, what a First Lady-to-be she is! Accomplished, brilliant, a family woman, and beautiful!

Truth is, the presentation of a certain type of confident, beautiful black womanhood can only be a good thing for us as a people. The media usually portray black women as either sexually over-confident trollops or materialistic, driven and angry golddigers. Such a (horribly wrong) depiction leaves little in the way of role models for the majority of young sistas; there is no middle ground. And for the brothers, seeing a beautiful woman, genuinely a part of, and enabling her husband’s success might change a few minds on the utility of the black woman.

But it’s not her immediate visage that has some talking. No, it’s Mrs. Obama’s, uh, assets, her last, her derriére, that has men (and women) looking at her say “damn!” The public eye has settled on Mrs. Obama badonk. A lovely backside it is, but I still can’t help but feel looking at the booty of the FLOTUS is…in bad form. Not that such a thing has stopped me (or anyone else for that matter), but is there any impropriety in noting that she is a quite beautiful, phenotypically African-American woman? I guess it’s all in how one does it. I think a tasteful noting of her statuesque presentation — such as this post — would be, and is OK, but a paen along the lines of “Baby Got Back” might be inappropriate.

Regardless, the blogosphere has been rife with discussion of Mrs. Obama’s ample tush, with everyone from Slate to random feminist blogs to Complex Magazine commenting on the pulchritude of the First-Lady-to-be, some in more dignified ways than others. I have to admit, it’ll be nice to not have a dowdy sista as First Lady, if only to show that the sistas can keep it sultry and business-classy simultaneously, rather than the either/or dichotomy that the modern media seems to think is the norm.

From a sophisticated brother’s point of view, it’s time the butt got some mainstream respect. Ever since slavery, it’s been both vilified and fetishized as the most recognizably “black” of all AfAm female features. Of course, black men have been connoisseurs for some time now, but now we can share our fetishes with the wider world audience. In fact, her presence in the White House may do more to increase the political activism of brothers than any of her husbands policies! I joke, I joke.

But in these way too serious times, you’ll have to excuse me if I have a little fun, and take a moment to applaud Mrs. Obama, and thank her mother, on behalf of the men of America, for what momma gave her.

This post is tagged Ass, Blogs, Butt, First Lady, Michelle Obama, Sexy, White House