Is This Michelle Obama Magazine Cover Racist?

Is This Michelle Obama Magazine Cover Racist?


From Clutch Magazine

Another European magazine is under fire for a questionable cover of an African American figure.

First Lady Michelle Obama was featured on the cover of Spanish magazine, Fuera De Serie, in slave garb with one of her breasts exposed.

She is also pictured with one of Aunt Jemima’s headscarves.

The portrait superimposes Obama’s head onto the famous art-historical body of an African Guadeloupean female slave painted by French artist Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist in 1800.

What are your thoughts on this?

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