Michelle Obama, dark skin, and the new beauty ideal

Marrying up, marrying black. How history gives us clues to Michelle and Barack Obama's relationship, interracial marriages, and strong black women.

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Entertainment

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• Michelle Obama
• Barack Obama
• marriage
• relationships
• love
• family
• interracial
• African American
• dark skin
• slavery
• Willie Brown
• Harry Belefonte
• Harold Ford
• Quincy Jones
• interracial marriage
• black women

[TruthFan]

And he treats her like a queen...........He adores her.

[TooReall]

are you guys freaking KIDDING ME?! Michelle Obama is DARK SKINNED. peopl think that in order to be dark skinned you have to be jet black ! NO ! Kelly Rowland , Jennifer Hudson , and Serena are dark skinned and they are not as black as wesley snipes. The average black person is not the complexion of Alek Wek, you rarely see people her complexion. so stop trying to make excuses. btw Michelle is BEAUTIFUL.

[kriggans1]

I'm sooooooo glad that President Barack Obama is married to a BLACK woman. I'm so excited because of that. That has showed us that there are black men out there who love black women. Go Obama!!!

[totaly52]

Diana Ross, Whitney houston, Chaka kahn, Janet Jackson, Angela Basset, Pam Grier, and the list goes on. These are brown skinned beautiful women that are adored and love by men of all races. A lot of times we like to point out the light skinned women & say they are on top b/c they are fair skinned, but when you look around in the entertainment businees most have been brown skinned that havemade it big..

[totaly52]

Everyone didn't grow up feeling inferior b/c they had dark skin. I am a shade darker than michelle Obamba and was considered very attractive by men. As a matter of fact my best friend was light skin and was very jealous of me b/c i got more attention than her. I grew up during the 60's

[tackfornow4]

Michelle obama is pretty and Black women are stunningly gorgeous !!!!

[keezydadon]

@LaBonitaMorena She is dark brown Barack Obama is medium brown.

[wolof2000]

@MrSincere007 I wish other males could think like you,which is beautiful and in honor of darker skinned black women, it is tiresome to hear black brothers mouth off on black sisters darker skin hues, like my co-worker who last summer stood in an office full of black and white workers and announce out loud he would jump over 6 dark skinned black girls to get to 1 real light skinned sister. I wanted to pick something up and throw it at him. I don't know why some brothers act this way but you're OK

[MySkiesAreBlue24]

obama is not monoracaial he's biracial and he was raised by white ppls his mannerisms are of a upper class white male(hint, hint) black american women will not find this among black american men because black males are not raised by 'white women. ' if black women wish to have an 'obama' they are going to have to date white. brotha's are damage mentally because their mothers are.

[iralevifan]

My mom is light skinned and considered extremely beautiful.She met my dad, fell in love and when their marriage ended she was devastated.My point? When she could not be with the 1 person she wanted it did not matter how many other people said she was beautiful.If u are jet black or not, all u need is that 1 person who likes YOU.What anyone else thinks is beautiful does not matter and you will only attract that person when you love yourself.I've seen folks w/no legs in love while i was single.