So to be fair, I’ve heard Michelle Obama jokingly refer to her husband as her ‘baby daddy’ before. But does that put Michelle Malkin’s chyron thing in bounds?
And can we talk about ‘baby mama/daddy/fahvuh’ for a second? I’d heard those terms growing up and didn’t really find them offensive until I got older. When I did take umbrage, it was out of some kind of class-based racial embarrassment, which is never a good look.
Is it possible that the original intent of the phrase was simply descriptive — the woman with whom I had a child and to whom i’m not married — and wasn’t necessarily weighted down with all sorts of negative connotations until it was propagated out into the larger culture? I wouldn’t rule that out completely. When Michelle Obama used it to describe Barack Obama, it was good-natured and playful. Obviously, Malkin & Co. are trafficking in the same tired-ass, coded deviant-black-pathology bullshit, but let’s forget her and them for a second.
When black folks use it amongst each other, do you have a problem with it?
(H/T Brokey.)
