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Tennessee hospitality official's e-mail shows tenacity of racismQuicklink Submitted By Sheila Samples 1 comment
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| On March 4, Walt Baker, the chief executive of the Tennessee Hospitality Association, forwarded an e-mail in which Michelle Obama is compared with Tarzan's little simian friend, Cheeta. Why is Michelle such a lightning rod for such attacks couched as jokes? Isn't she just as human, just as much a woman as Laura Bush and other first ladies? Or are black women still less than human? |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.
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