Since Tuesday my inbox has been flooded with emails from readers outraged over Fox News calling Michelle Obama a “baby mama”. Isn’t that what she is? It’s already been established that Fox News is a racist network. But don’t we refer to women as baby mamas – even women outside of our race?
How can we be up in arms over a derogatory term that we use to describe our own women 24/7? This is the Don Imus controversy revisited. Hypocrisy at it’s highest level! I’m tired of black people throwing mud on our own culture and then getting angry when other people do it.
If we had respect for ourselves, no one outside of our culture would dare disrespect us! We give implicit permission to non-people of color to treat us with disrespect when we disrespect ourselves on a daily basis.
Maybe we should stop complaining about what others are doing to us and start showing them how to treat us. Lead by example or fall back!
