I wrote about Michelle Obama’s commencement address and micro-aggressions today for Politico:
The first lady cited a controversial New Yorker cover during that campaign of her sporting an Angela Davis-style Afro and a gun. The image was meant to satirize “misconceptions and prejudices” about the Obamas, in the words of the publication’s editor, David Remnick.
The first lady said “it knocked me back a bit.” Give her this: Few of us know the pain of being featured on a cover of one of the nation’s most respected magazines in a spoof meant to illustrate how our critics are mean-spirited loons.
(Remnick went on to further demonstrate his hostility to the Obamas by writing an admiring 672-page biography of the president.). . .
Somehow, she managed to recover when it came to magazine covers, posing for the March 2009 Vogue, looking resplendent on a cover with the lines, “Michelle Obama: The First Lady the World’s Been Waiting For.”
