MSNBC: Media Criticism of Obama ‘Selfie’ Is Full of ‘Racist and Sexist Stereotypes’

‘It’s a confluence of racist and sexist stereotypes, as if Michelle is this angry black woman, as if President Obama is this over-sexed black man ...’

MSNBC’ers: Media’s Coverage of Obama’s Selfie Mix of ‘Racist and Sexist Stereotypes’ About Blacks (Mediaite)

The media’s coverage of President Barack Obama’s “selfie” photograph with two European leaders during the memorial service for Nelson Mandela was both racist and sexist, according to MSNBC’s regular guests appearing on the network’s dayside news block with anchor Thomas Roberts.

MSNBC.com reporter Irin Carmon blasted the selective focus on some photographs of the “selfie” moment for elevating a “confluence of racist and sexist stereotypes.” She said that the focus on first lady Michelle Obama scowling presented her as an “angry black woman” while the suggestion that the president was flirting with the female Danish prime minister presented him as the “oversexed black man.”

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