Michelle Obama and The Daily Kos Controversy

As a follow up to yesterday's post "With Friends Like The Daily Kos, Michelle Obama Doesn't Need Enemies,"  I wanted to point out that Kim Pearson of BlogHer wrote an excellent post about the topic.  In it she quotes several scholars regarding the depiction of black women in American history and she also included the following:

It doesn't help that this image hit the blogosphere not long after a Roswell, Georgia magazine published a cover showing Sen. Obama in a rifle's cross-hairs.

This image flips and merges two of the most emblematic images in our tragic racial history: the black (usually) male victim suffering unjustly at the hands of white racists, and the fragile woman (historically white) being violated by brutish (black, and often imaginary) men.

It's a post worth reading.  And by the way, I still haven't heard anything from the Daily Kos.  I doubt I will