She Says Michelle Obama Is The Real Prize

Root.com, an online magazine with Black perspective on politics, culture and history, features a new article by Kim McClarin. She talks about how great Barack is and why she loves him...but it was indeed Michelle, "or, more particularly, his choice of her as wifely material" that made her fall deeper for the amazing, delectable, deliciousness that is Barack Obama. She says, of our future First Lady: "The first time I saw Michelle Obama I thought, oddly, of a line from Ntozake Shange's epic choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf: ordinarybrown braided woman with big legs and full lips reglar Of course, Michelle Obama is tall and regal and utterly self-possessed. She owns a smile to nearly rival her husband's and waves those long, slender fingers about like a classical pianist. She carries more talent, clarity, deep self-knowledge, and openness of heart in the left eyelash she lost unnoticed yesterday than any woman on the trail. The notion that this woman is "reglar" is, prima facie, absurd." And of course, I know exactly what she means and I love that she understands why a vote Barack and Michelle is a vote for you, for me, for us. Read her article in its entirety: The Real Prize