Should Michelle Cover up

[Blackstar*]

Re: Should Michelle Cover up

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SueSumba</div><div class="ubbcode-body">



if she dressed *like this* all the time it would be something else. </div></div>That's a terrible outfit; nothing seems to fit properly.

[Magician]

Re: Should Michelle Cover up

Well I was going to post a picture of the French First Lady and her 'outfit', however it violates board rules.

Just Google (images) for &quot;french first lady&quot; and see what you can find.

[jah_yout]

Re: Should Michelle Cover up

i'll give her much respect if she goes to just ONE event (doesn't even have to be 'official') over the next four years...just ONE...in something like this

i know i know- not gonna happen...but i can dream can't i?

[jah_yout]

Re: Should Michelle Cover up

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Magix_di_PM</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Well I was going to post a picture of the French First Lady and her 'outfit', however it violates board rules.

Just Google (images) for &quot;french first lady&quot; and see what you can find. </div></div>

post it nuh...
wasn't she a model or something &amp; celebrated for how 'hot' she looks?
but western culture sees no problem with their woman skinning out to show the boyz how hot she is;
i definitely think it's out of place

[diabolical_Tanya]

Re: Should Michelle Cover up

meeda like fi hear one good reason why she would need to be wearing dat outfit

[diabolical_Tanya]

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wonder why JahYout lives in the west when his heart is so obviously set in the East/or North or south

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> meeda like fi hear one good reason why she would need to be wearing dat outfit </div></div>

why such wrath?
it looks like a perfectly decent dress to me...she has worn other types of dresses...so what would make that one soooo evil?

not even one time?

rhaatid

yu really hate africa so much?

[jah_yout]

Re: Should Michelle Cover up

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> wonder why JahYout lives in the west when his heart is so obviously set in the East/or North or south </div></div>

mainly due to abduction from the african continent and bondage inna babylon

[Magician]

Re: Should Michelle Cover up

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> meeda like fi hear one good reason why she would need to be wearing dat outfit </div></div>

<span style="font-weight: bold">it looks like a perfectly decent dress to me</span>...</div></div>

This looks like a Nigerian dress to me.

I think that if Mrs. Obama was trying to please JahYute, she should pay homage to her husband and wear a traditional Luo outfit. Although I've never seen one, as most Luo wear &quot;western&quot; clothes in Kenya.

[jah_yout]

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feel no way- dem have african dresses with arms out too

[Dyoll_73]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> meeda like fi hear one good reason why she would need to be wearing dat outfit </div></div>

Because it's a beautiful outfit. Mix up things: the strapless gown sometimes, the <span style="font-style: italic">african</span> look sometimes.

[Suesumba]

Re: Should Michelle Cover up

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
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you are so incredibly bogus. she's an AMERICAN, not an african, not African-American &lt;--

A M E R I C A N

did any of the white first ladies dress like this:



did kitty dukakis run around like this?


no. but becaz shi blakk shi haffi ... lawd easze di pressha.

[diabolical_Tanya]

Re: Should Michelle Cover up

Thank you suesumba

[jah_yout]

Re: Should Michelle Cover up

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Magix_di_PM</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> meeda like fi hear one good reason why she would need to be wearing dat outfit </div></div>

<span style="font-weight: bold">it looks like a perfectly decent dress to me</span>...</div></div>

This looks like a Nigerian dress to me.

I think that if Mrs. Obama was trying to please JahYute, she should pay homage to her husband and wear a traditional Luo outfit. Although I've never seen one, as most Luo wear &quot;western&quot; clothes in Kenya. </div></div>

interesting story:
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Raila Odinga was cheered for his Nigerian-style attire

<span style="font-weight: bold">Three Kenyan members of parliament have entered the chamber in African clothes, in violation of rules dating back to the colonial era.</span>
The three received a severe dressing down from Speaker Francis ole Kaparo and were thrown out of parliament last Friday.

But on Tuesday they were back - without the suits and ties demanded by the rules.

This time they were allowed to stay, and a committee will debate the controversial regulations later in the week.

Roads and Public Works Minister Raila Odinga was cheered when he entered parliament in a brightly-coloured Agbada, a flowing Nigerian robe.

&quot;I was happy to see Raila seated in parliament dressed like a Nigerian minister,&quot; said MP Koigi wa Wamwere.

Impatient

Mr Wamwere who is often seen sporting long flowing gowns has this year twice been asked to leave the House.


&quot;Parliament should support African regalia,&quot; he added.



Mr Wamwere fears that Kenya is not culturally independent

Mr Kaparo said that so far as he was concerned, Mr Odinga was wearing Nigerian attire.

He became impatient when Gor Sunguh, another unsuited dissident, bowed a number of times to cheering MPs, showing off his khaki casual trousers and a button-down shirt.

&quot;This argument that the only dress that can be decent is European dress is to me awfully colonial. And I am not sure that even Europeans would today dare advance such an argument,&quot; Mr Wamwere said.

&quot;So you will be surprised that the champions of our new colonial culture, new colonial ideology new colonial argument today are not Europeans anymore. It is the Africans,&quot; he said.

Male emancipation

He criticised the speaker for applying the double standards when it comes to the female MPs.


Mr Gor Sunguh's shirt did not impress Kenya's Speaker

&quot;I see ladies allowed to wear quite freely. They come in trousers, nobody complains - they come in African dresses - they have full freedom to do so.

Mr Wamwere demanded for the male MPs to enjoy the same freedom which the ladies have.

However, Mr Kaparo, said that Mr Wamwere's outfit was not really African.

OJ Hakim, a designer with African Inspirations in Nairobi told the BBC Network Africa programme that African attire could be very expansive and could come in different shapes and forms.

&quot;I think that the African culture is very diverse and there are so many things within the culture that inspire African design.

African pride

The BBC's Nyambura Wambugu in Nairobi says that it is not only the men who are complaining and that women are questioning the dress rule which has never been changed since the colonial era to adjust with modern times.

Cecily Mbarire, a nominated member of the parliament says MPs should be given an opportunity to debate the dress code.



Designers want the parliament to be proud of African culture

&quot;What is acceptable to whom, that is the question.

&quot;I think the dress code in this parliament needs to be discussed and we need to give our view because Koigi wa Wamwere has been consistent with the African attire I do not know see the reason why he can't be allowed to be in the parliament,&quot; Ms Mbarire said.

Mr Wamwere told the BBC that although the country has become politically free, he is worried that culturally Kenya is far from being independent and it is still tied to the European culture.

Our reporter says that the move by members of parliament has prompted the speaker to refer the matter to the house committee that will discuss the issue in depth and whose recommendations the house will adopt.


A group of Kenyan designers has backed the rebelling MPs and called for the government to &quot;embrace, encourage and support ways of dressing among its senior members that honour Africa's unique culture and proud history&quot;.

[jah_yout]

Re: Should Michelle Cover up

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Humano</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> meeda like fi hear one good reason why she would need to be wearing dat outfit </div></div>

Because it's a beautiful outfit. Mix up things: the strapless gown sometimes, the <span style="font-style: italic">african</span> look sometimes. </div></div>

actually if they read the original post with the pic of this dress i clearly said ONE time wearing it wouldn't kill her...i also said i know it's not gonna happen....
it was actually comic relief...
personally i love the outfit and my aunt wears them all the time...but modern black women i guess consider it primitive...
incidentally i sometimes see 'west-indian' women of east-indian descent wear their traditional styles on some special occasions...but we have been taught to hate all things of our ancestors