Lately magazines and newspapers have been likening MichelleO to Clair Huxtable. Clair is the original MichelleO, and this comparison is more applicable than that to Jackie Kennedy.
If you know me, you know that I DVR every episode of The Cosby Show that comes on daily. I love it!
Anywho, I really love the reality behind what these two women represent: a generation of black women with advanced degrees, solid self-esteem and no anger issues.
"The Cosby Show" definitely represented the middle/upper class, from the choice of artwork in the Huxtable living room, the jazz music playing in the opening credits, references to historically black colleges and the acknowledgment of the “Talented Tenth," all while being a proud segment of the African American community that did not make the evening news.
I can honestly admit that the spin off with crazy Lisa Bonet, "A Different World," and her life on a fictional, historically black college definitely had an impact on my decision to attend Spelman.
With today’s culture, every white woman is presumed to be EveryWoman until proven out of the mainstream. But, MichelleO has brought the “normalcy” of black women into the world’s social consciousness. And all it took for her was two Ivy League degrees, a six-figure boardroom salary, a Norman Rockwell family, being a soccer-mom, and the ability to dress herself w/o a GlamSquad like Bey.
The Obama’s are definitely giving a refresher for those that missed the Cosby Show era, and letting people see black men, women and children for the first time as “normal” again.
xoxo,
;-)
If you know me, you know that I DVR every episode of The Cosby Show that comes on daily. I love it!
Anywho, I really love the reality behind what these two women represent: a generation of black women with advanced degrees, solid self-esteem and no anger issues."The Cosby Show" definitely represented the middle/upper class, from the choice of artwork in the Huxtable living room, the jazz music playing in the opening credits, references to historically black colleges and the acknowledgment of the “Talented Tenth," all while being a proud segment of the African American community that did not make the evening news.
I can honestly admit that the spin off with crazy Lisa Bonet, "A Different World," and her life on a fictional, historically black college definitely had an impact on my decision to attend Spelman.
With today’s culture, every white woman is presumed to be EveryWoman until proven out of the mainstream. But, MichelleO has brought the “normalcy” of black women into the world’s social consciousness. And all it took for her was two Ivy League degrees, a six-figure boardroom salary, a Norman Rockwell family, being a soccer-mom, and the ability to dress herself w/o a GlamSquad like Bey.
The Obama’s are definitely giving a refresher for those that missed the Cosby Show era, and letting people see black men, women and children for the first time as “normal” again.
xoxo,
;-)
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