Black. Female. Accomplished. Attacked.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/18/AR2008071802557.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

By Sophia A. Nelson
Sunday, July 20, 2008; Page B01

There she is -- no, not Miss America, but the Angela-Davis-Afro-wearing, machine-gun-toting, angry, unpatriotic Michelle Obama, greeting her husband with a fist bump instead of a kiss on the cheek.

It was supposed to be satire, but the caricature of Barack Obama and his wife that appeared on the cover of the New Yorker last week rightly caused a major flap. And among black professional women like me and many of my sisters in the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, who happened to be gathered last week in Washington for our 100th anniversary celebration, the mischaracterization of Michelle hit the rawest of nerves.

Welcome to our world.

I just love Michelle, her looks, brains, her approach to wife and motherhood. I do empathize with your well-contained rage. Michelle will have an opportunity, as First Lady, to make all of this stupid and racist bigotry the waste that it is. She has more class in her little finger than her critics could summon in a lifetime. One interview with her mother, (I loved her too) tells you the way this woman was raised. It will all be good.

Condi Rice thread.