Racist Michelle Obama Cartoon is Just Another Example of Conservatives’ Blatant Hypocrisy

Michelle Obama has been plagued by racist depictions since before her husband won the White House and throughout his presidency. There was the infamous cover of the New Yorker picturing the first lady as an Afro-haired, machine gun-toting militant in combat boots giving her husband a fist bump, also known as a “terrorist fist jab.” Fuera de Serie, a Spanish magazine, superimposed an image of Michelle Obama onto a popular 1800 French painting of an enslaved woman with her right breast exposed. In 2009 there was a mild uproar when it was discovered that a Google search for “Michelle Obama” resulted in the top image showing the first lady altered to look like an ape.