When Being Black Enough Isn't Enough. . .

Damn racists. They're EVERYWHERE! Even in wax museums!

More interesting, far more interesting than the sappy, drooling article about Michelle and the study of her "blackness" are the comments below the report which range from sane to highly conspiratorial.

An argument over shade:

Why, to read most of the comments here, you’d think that Michelle Obama is dark-skinned--which would be perfectly fine, I hasten to add. The truth is that she is medium brown.

A conspiracy:

Thirdly it is not exactly unknown for photographic images of black people to be manipulated, to make us appear lighter skinned than we are. This is particularly common for photographic representations of black women and even more so for black women in the public eye.

The insanely illogical:

For the same reason some black men value white women over black women, many of us value, glorify and respect women with a lighter shade of skin. The nearer to white, the closer to god.

And finally, the utterly ignorant:

I care how she is displayed b/c if these artists, designers, etc keep lightening her up, 50 years from now our children will have a misconceived notion how the first black FLOTUS really looked. Just like people today think Cleopatra looks like Elizabeth Taylor.

Well, if in 50 years, the only option for a history lesson is Madame Tussaud's then something will have gone seriously wrong with the educational system. However, after reading some of this commentary, I think it has already failed miserably.