Let’s be real, President Obama brings change not only because he is the first Black President but also because unlike a majority of high profile Black men, he has a mocha colored, statuesque, curvaceous, Black woman on his arm. Black is back, not in a corner, hidden in a closet, or slipping down a back stairway. Michelle Obama’s status as the first, Black First Lady presents an unspoken change to the image of the Black woman.

Her beauty does not hail from a Halle Berry clone, nor is she a Beyonce double. Her beauty represents the masses of beautiful Black women, who have been overlooked or pushed aside. Don’t get it wrong! There is plenty of love for the sisters of a lighter hue, but the mass media already works overtime keeping them on a pedestal. What there has never been enough of is visibility and praise for the darker sisters, who are just as beautiful and in some cases more beautiful. There has not been enough brown and dark-skinned little girls, who are told early in life that they are beautiful and worthy so that they grow to believe it. As painful as this truth is they are the little girls and women, who never garner the same attention as their lighter-skinned counterparts..

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