Ben Garrison Make the First Lady Great Again
At this point in the 2016 presidential ballot coverage, it is no longer surprising to hear of racism, sexism or any other vitriol coming from the Trump military camp or his supporters. Though he has not specifically endorsed Trump, political cartoonist Ben Garrison has an affinity for cartoons espousing conservative views, and his latest falls right in line with being sexist and racist.
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Garrison says the cartoon — which appeared on his website Grrrgraphics.com — meant to "express our outrage at the growing tyranny of Big Government."
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Featuring our first lady, Michelle Obama, and Donald Trump's married woman, Melania Trump, it misses the mark in regard to addressing authorities tyranny and instead expresses racism, sexism and transantagonism. And while the reasons information technology is offensive are many in number, an age-old message reads loud and articulate: black women are held to a different standard of "greatness" than white women.
Take a look:
#InTrumpsAmerica The #FirstLady volition be Slap-up Again! #Trump2016 https://t.co/2FGmMQ1bBo movie.twitter.com/g2SOBjFXSI
— GrrrGraphics Cartoons (@GrrrGraphics) May xiii, 2016
Nosotros want to provide a very explicit disclaimer that nosotros in no way mean whatsoever disrespect to Melania Trump. Really and truly. Nosotros have zero qualms with the fact that she has chosen to pose for nude photographs and is an immigrant in the Usa (something Trump himself is not in agreement with, as his "build a wall"/ "Mexican immigrants are rapists" rhetoric makes articulate).
Only Michelle Obama is the height for conventional respectability (which, admittedly tends to exist problematic) — she is Ivy League-educated from both Princeton University and Harvard Law Schoolhouse. She is happily married, a devoted mother, a snazzy dresser and an incredibly competent FLOTUS.
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None of that, still, is plenty to protect her. The cartoon conspicuously shows her stylized as a man, her real-life curves replaced by male person features, including a penis bulge. It portrays her with a scowl as though she never smiles, perpetuating the "angry blackness adult female" stereotype.
The critiques of the uber-successful lawn tennis player Serena Williams also accuse her obviously female person-professional person-athlete-21-fourth dimension-grand-slam body of looking manly to denigrate her. Blackness women are often not even seen every bit people, let alone attractive, and then any defense that this cartoon was only a joke will never be enough. This is harmful stuff.
That Michelle Obama is still not considered "great" despite her extensive list of accomplishments is questionable enough. Add to information technology the fact that the woman they compare her to has literally none of the aforementioned accomplishments, salvage being an attractive white adult female and former model, is telling.
We cannot imagine a world where the xenophobia that Obama has faced from conservatives, despite not even being foreign-born, would suddenly be acceptable in our black FLOTUS. And we certainly cannot imagine a news station that would not flock to devalue Michelle and what she'south done because she chose to pose nude. Quite just: These things are unacceptable in a black woman and especially would not exist adequate (to conservatives, the public, the media) in our first lady.
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That we accept and celebrate in Melania Trump things we ofttimes shame and chastise women for, while also using problematic stereotypes and imagery to say that Michelle Obama is somehow brusk of greatness definitely comes from a racist and misogynistic place. It is shameful that this is still happening only non at all surprising.
Before y'all go, cheque out our slideshow beneath:
Source: https://www.sheknows.com/living/articles/1121689/michelle-obama-melania-trump-cartoon/
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