Picture Source The Huffington Post reports a cartoon where Michelle Obama is depicted as overweight and binging on hamburgers , Andrew Breitbart's Big Government website.
The cartoon, which also appeared on Breitbart's Big Journalism site over the weekend, references LET's MOVE, Michelle Obama's campaign to encourage healthy eating and fight obesity. In it, she is drawn with a double chin and plump cheeks. She is drawn saying, "I've stepped up my efforts to control America's eating habits by telling restaurants to lower portion sizes and fat content." While she says this, she is eating one of a plateful of hamburgers.
Some have called this depiction racist, but I am not sure why. Is it the fact that she was drawn fat, or is it the fact that she is a black woman who was drawn to be fat.... If she were eating a plate full of fried chicken and collard greens with a glass of "RED JUICE", I might agree with that statement...
But all in all, it just seems like another attempt to "spoof" the Obama's... I understand that Barack and Michelle AREN'T WHITE, but that doesn't mean that every cartoon created about them is racist.
So in the spirit of Michelle O, LET's MOVE ON!
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