Politico: FLOTUS duds get backlash By NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON
[The First Lady of the United State's] inaugural outfits sent designers to their drafting tables to design knockoffs and droves went to J.Crew to get those snazzy leather green gloves. But not everyone is happy with her choices. The Black Artists Association is chiding FLOTUS for not choosing any African-American designers.
They will send a letter to FLOTUS’s office and appeal to her to include items from black designers in her wardrobe. BAA Cofounder Amnau Eele, who was a former runway model told Women’s Wear Daily:
“It’s fine and good if you want to be all ‘Kumbaya’ and ‘We Are the World’ by representing all different countries. But if you are going to have Isabel Toledo do the inauguration dress, and Jason Wu do the evening gown, why not have Kevan Hall, B Michael, Stephen Burrows or any of the other black designers do something too?”
Our color blind society, ladies and gentlemen!
Apparently it is not “fine and good” at all.
Michelle Obama can wear whichever designer she wants to wear. I don’t mean any disrespect, but it POSSIBLE she simply did not like the designs made by black designers? Is it POSSIBLE that perhaps she preferred OTHER designers regardless of their ethnicity/nationality/race/religion, etc?
Remember, Michelle Obama hates America, not black designers. Get it straight.
The comment below was left at Politico:
Crazyforu
Party: NA Reply #9Date: Jan. 26, 2009 – 1:37 AM EST
I’m an African American woman who thinks this is totally ridiculous. The First Lady has every right wear the designer of her choosing. What’s next? Will the African American Pig Farmers Association of America (not sure there is one) send her a letter in protest if she chooses not to eat chittlins? Give me a friggin’ break!!!
Give me a break indeed.
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