Stay Classy Conservatives!
January 5, 2012 at 6:50 PM Leave a comment
Gosh, it must be an election year:
A baldly racist depiction of First Lady Michelle Obama that appeared Tuesday on a right-wing website is based on a 1775 portrait of Marie Antoinette by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty (1740-1786). The full-length painting hangs outside Paris in the Palace of Versailles.
The Internet image grafts Obama’s face onto Gautier-Dagoty’s lavish depiction of the French queen, dressed in full regalia. It also replaces the draped left arm of the young monarch, then barely 20, with a muscular black arm and shifts the position of the right hand to place it in front of a world globe.
The caricature of Obama as a profligate queen relies on the racist stereotype of an “uppity Negro,” which emerged among slave masters in an earlier American era. Obama, born into a working-class Chicago family whose roots are traced to the pre-Civil War South, graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, prior to holding several high-level positions in the academic and private sectors.
I can’t imagine spending my time concocting things like this. And you know, I’m willing to bet that the people who do think of themselves as patriots and Christians.
Ugh. It’s going to be a long, hate-filled year.
Oh, and while we’re at it, there’s this (again, stay classy Republicans!):
Entry filed under: 2012 Election, Racism, Republicans, Including Wingers & "Moderates", WingNutO'Sphere. Tags: michelle obama.
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