Comments on: ATR 104 – Inauguration and Black Female Bodies http://www.addictedtorace.com/2009/01/28/atr-104-inauguration-and-black-female-bodies/ Fri, 28 May 2010 12:18:48 -0700 hourly 1 By: Brothel Poet http://www.addictedtorace.com/2009/01/28/atr-104-inauguration-and-black-female-bodies/comment-page-1/#comment-294013 Brothel Poet Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:46:02 +0000 http://www.addictedtorace.com/?p=224#comment-294013 I loved Aretha Franklin's hat. Better Cultural Translators- besides black men, black comedians? I sense something on this podcast.... Is DL Hughley too stupid to make, too inherently black and male to be a social commentator? I think he's funny. Maybe we need more which is different than better. More sistas, perhaps? Jon Stewart is a white male social commentator.., Anyway, the thing around Michelle's booty and black women's hair. Since the world has been set up as a contest us vs. them, black women's beauty has been set up as a negative contrast with white women's for a very long time. It is unsettling for the dominant culture to perceive that there is a beauty other than white, flat butted and blond, because being beautiful has been the cultural prize bestowed among white women for not being full citizens within Western society. Being the object of adulation, and suspcious possessiveness is the booby prize in a lot of ways. If that gets taken away- if black, asian and Latina women also get the sexual, and romantic adulation inherent in being described as beautiful, white women will be forced to take their struggle for equality to whole new heights. They will have to deal with eating disorders and the self undermining impetus behind them, among other things. Hence the comingled fascination/anxiety with black female acoutrements. Does this show ever interview black men? Iwill have to search through the archives, but I would like to hear some love for the bruthas. So I loved Aretha Franklin’s hat.
Better Cultural Translators- besides black men, black comedians?
I sense something on this podcast…. Is DL Hughley too stupid to make, too inherently black and male to be a social commentator? I think he’s funny. Maybe we need more which is different than better. More sistas, perhaps? Jon Stewart is a white male social commentator..,
Anyway, the thing around Michelle’s booty and black women’s hair. Since the world has been set up as a contest us vs. them, black women’s beauty has been set up as a negative contrast with white women’s for a very long time. It is unsettling for the dominant culture to perceive that there is a beauty other than white, flat butted and blond, because being beautiful has been the cultural prize bestowed among white women for not being full citizens within Western society.
Being the object of adulation, and suspcious possessiveness is the booby prize in a lot of ways. If that gets taken away- if black, asian and Latina women also get the sexual, and romantic adulation inherent in being described as beautiful, white women will be forced to take their struggle for equality to whole new heights. They will have to deal with eating disorders and the self undermining impetus behind them, among other things.
Hence the comingled fascination/anxiety with black female acoutrements.
Does this show ever interview black men? Iwill have to search through the archives, but I would like to hear some love for the bruthas. So

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]]> By: Real Black Dude http://www.addictedtorace.com/2009/01/28/atr-104-inauguration-and-black-female-bodies/comment-page-1/#comment-275648 Real Black Dude Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:20:36 +0000 http://www.addictedtorace.com/?p=224#comment-275648 That was very informative. Great interview! That was very informative. Great interview!

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