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This will definitely make you <span style="font-weight: bold">SOL - Snort Out Loud</span>. 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Why in the world would Essence Magazine lighten Michelle Obama and her Mama on the latest cover???? Did you guys see it? First let me begin by saying,"Thank you to the hardworking staff at Essence and Essence.com for going above and beyond in making sure us women of color have a classy and empowering read every month. I have grown up with your magazine, learned how to budget my money as a colege student because of your magazine and learned how to love myself better because of your magazine. For all of that, i thank you!" I just wanna create some dialog to see if its just me, or did anybody else find 1st Lady to be way lighter than she is in real life? I think that they should have given us the truest picture of rich colored and toned royalty, and not try to change her complexion. Airbrushing is one thing but why did someone over ther feel that making her lighter made for a better cover shot? Did "we" make them think that lighter is gonna sell more magazines? Or that lighter is easier on the eyes? Or that light skin makes one less threatening or makes for a prettier picture? The 1st Lady i wanna see is milk chocolate,with a strong hairline and high cheekbones..arms toned from planting Collard Greens in the back of the White House! LOL!!I am proud that she represents a different shade of beauty as I get so tired of seeing real, real light skinned women in media or real, real black ones like Alek Wek(misspelled) . Essence, there are not enough of examples of the darker beauties for yall to be bleaching folks skin on your cover! Let the 1st Lady and her mama live and come out from under them LIGHTS!!!!
Still a fan,
Jonesy
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Why in the world would Essence Magazine lighten Michelle Obama and her Mama on the latest cover???? Did you guys see it? First let me begin by saying,"Thank you to the hardworking staff at Essence and Essence.com for going above and beyond in making sure us women of color have a classy and empowering read every month. I have grown up with your magazine, learned how to budget my money as a colege student because of your magazine and learned how to love myself better because of your magazine. For all of that, i thank you!" I just wanna create some dialog to see if its just me, or did anybody else find 1st Lady to be way lighter than she is in real life? I think that they should have given us the truest picture of rich colored and toned royalty, and not try to change her complexion. Airbrushing is one thing but why did someone over ther feel that making her lighter made for a better cover shot? Did "we" make them think that lighter is gonna sell more magazines? Or that lighter is easier on the eyes? Or that light skin makes one less threatening or makes for a prettier picture? The 1st Lady i wanna see is milk chocolate,with a strong hairline and high cheekbones..arms toned from planting Collard Greens in the back of the White House! LOL!!I am proud that she represents a different shade of beauty as I get so tired of seeing real, real light skinned women in media or real, real black ones like Alek Wek(misspelled) . Essence, there are not enough of examples of the darker beauties for yall to be bleaching folks skin on your cover! Let the 1st Lady and her mama live and come out from under them LIGHTS!!!!
Still a fan,
Jonesy
Exclusive for GlobalGrind.com
Streetz96.com
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Amen!
I love, love, love the look and her confidence in that blown up picture. 
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