This is going to seem like a nitpick, but the news cycle is slow so let's DO IT.
It's not exactly what she said.
We have to start educating people about all kinds of beauty. And our beauty is so powerful and so unique that it is worthy of conversation and it is worthy of the respect that we're owed for who we are and what we offer to the world.
Unfortunately, a number of right-wing accounts have adopted the same tactics as the Left to demonize and parody their opponents.
In this case, yes, Michelle Obama was talking about black women as part of the ongoing media tour for her new book, The Look, which includes a lengthy article from Oprah Daily and a SIX-PART podcast series about Obama and her stylists (no joke!).
That's certainly absurd, or as we say around here, beyond parody.
If you can see outside Obama's Marxist, identitarian class framework, you may also think its absurd for someone to be talking about the power of someone's hair based on their ethnicity. You may correctly note that the title of her most recent podcast, "The Power of Hair: Identity, Legacy & Black Womanhood," seems a little bit racist.
(If you can't see outside that Marxist framework because you went to public school, try swapping "Black" for "White" and see how Michelle's wording sounds.)
Put another way, imagine if a certain white actress wrote a book about how good her "jeans" are.
Michelle's actual wording is also goofy. It's the same kind of word salad that's become commonplace in elite leftist circles.
...our beauty is so powerful and so unique that it is worthy of conversation and it is worthy of the respect that we're owed for who we are and what we offer to the world.
Did Kamala Harris write that sentence?
Finally, the wider context is actually MORE ABSURD than what the End Wokeness account did by misquoting her.
The clip comes from 39 minutes in the interview during a segment titled, I kid you not:
In this segment, Michelle essentially talks about how she had to pretend to be more "white" while her husband was president because America was just too dang racist to handle a black woman acting and looking like a black woman.
Interviewer: 'Could you imagine if you came down with some box braids? They would be like, What is that? Why is she wearing her hair like that? I think that that's so profound that you were able, because too, you could have been like, screw it, say it loud and black and I'm proud, I'm going to do the things. But that could have also overshadowed everything else that you guys were trying to do politically.'
Michelle: 'And there's also, we talk a lot about change and the evolving and the speed of it. And I know that generationally people get impatient and they want change now. And change is one of those things. It's like you gotta read the room sometimes and feel the time. In my mind, I knew there was going to come a point in time in my public life where I was going to. Get my braids back in, I was gonna reclaim that. But the bigger point of getting the ACA passed and doing work with kids and, you know, military families and all the things that were on my husband's agenda, fashion and hair had to be a back story for the moment.'
The former First Lady is saying that her hair was somehow, in any way, shape, or form, an important part of her husband's presidency, and that she was a victim because she felt restrained in her style choices while she was wining and dining at the White House, surrounded by the world's most powerful people.
THAT is far more absurd than what she said next, AKA the viral video clip.
Yes, Michelle is injecting Marxist "equity" into her speech and pretending to be a part of the fight against "oppression," but her statement that black women are beautiful is the least absurd part of her messaging.
In fact, the idea that women should be proud of their own unique beauty is something that resonates with, well, pretty much every woman on the planet!
The way we report on these things matters. Michelle Obama's book tour and Marxist worldview and word salads are already silly enough without editing her words to make them seem even dumber, then putting that edited summary in quotation marks so the public thinks it's exactly what she said.
When you do that - AKA lying - you are as guilty as CNN reporting the "very fine people" lie about Donald Trump, or the BBC editing Trump's J6 speech to make him seem more violent, or the Left accusing Charlie Kirk of being a racist for his own comments about Michelle Obama and DEI.
The difference is that the BBC has now had its president and CEO of news resign, and the woman who misquoted Charlie Kirk in The Washington Post was fired.
The anonymous right-wing accounts that post misquotes without context on social media, however, are readily shared by all sorts of big names without hardly any pushback.
All this exaggeration, misquoting, and outright lying does is make people trust right-wing media less, and that's a shame, because the word salads, media tours, and demand for respect really are beyond parody.
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