White People Are In Their Feelings About Michelle Obama Attending Black Girls Rock

March 30, 2015 ‐ By
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We were pretty stoked to learn that Michelle Obama attended BET’s Black Girls Rock event last weekend. However, we also realized that it would only be a matter of time before the backlash ensued. Last year, #whitegirlsrock was trending on Twitter during the broadcast of the event, so you can imagine how salty folks were this year when the First Lady of the United States was in the building.

Most of the complaints were left on Mrs. O’s Instagram page after her Personal Aide Kristin Jones announced that she would be taking over the account from the event Saturday.

“I am all for the empowerment of disadvantaged groups, I just don’t see how alienating an oppressed group i.e. women by focusing on a subset of that group, helps anyone,” wrote one commenter.

“If a white person posted this and it said white girls rock…the sh-t would hit the fan,” wrote another.

“Black Girls Rock is leaving out all other girls of color. Brown is a color, yellow is a color, red is a color and yes, white is still a color. One day racism will end because we no longer NOTICE the color of our fellow human beings. ALL girls rock,” someone else chimed in.

Of course, there were also plenty of Instagram users who were vocal about their support of Lady O’s participation in the movement.

“To all my fellow white women: Why is uplifting our sisters of color a bad thing for us, exactly? Go read the news, see a movie, or watch TV, and look at the stereotypes of African Americans still face, especially young women. This group of ladies need to know that that image is not their reality #BlackGirlsRock,” a commenter expressed.

So far, Mrs. Obama’s administration team has not commented on the backlash.

Are you surprised by any of this?

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  • Saul Good

    As a Caucasian “Neanderthal” (as Neva so eloquently put it, even though she’s obviously very uneducated, as ALL humans have Neanderthal in their DNA–not just Caucasians), I have no problem with FLOTUS going to and promoting this event. Black girls DO rock. They’re wonderful. I think it’s a wonderful message for the girls. It’s positive discrimination, and in this miserable world, is not terrible. At least, these girls can get something good out of it. Still, it IS exclusionary, because if a white girl organized an event called “White Girlls Rock,” even if you believe the media kisses their butts all the time, it is exclusionary and would leave many non-White women feeling offended. It’s no different when many non-Black women see “Black Girls Rock.” Of course, nobody likes to feel excluded, but that’s life. We can’t all be Hispanic-Black-Waspy-Jewish-Christian-Asian-Muslim-Native Americans:)
    What I have a problem with is that her husband seems to always be on the side of the thugs and law-breakers… speaking out on their behalf and giving them more than the benefit of the doubt,, while staying silent when these law-breakers murder our police officers. Then, he’s quiet as a church mouse. This makes me and some others believe that he doesn’t represent ALL Americans as the President of the United States should.

  • mmmdot

    And you BETTER copy this and sear into your little white birdbrain forever: You are not better than ANYONE because you are white, nor are you actually a good or a decent person JUST BECAUSE you are white. Stop trolling and harassing black people, because when you racist white SOCIOPATHS revert to “you’re so hateful” when black people get fed up with your racism and RIGHTFULLY put you in your fxcking place, you LITERALLY make me SICK. NO ONE feels sorry for you. Stop WHITE WHINING about it when your pride and fee fee’s get hurt, because I have NO RESPECT for you and you deserve what you get for coming here to antagonize, demean, harass, bully black people. “Reverse racism” doesn’t exist so go read a REAL book and shut your wet-dog smelling, sister fxcking, inbred, redneck, albino monkey, poo flinging azz the hell up. Kay?

  • mmmdot

    Oh look, here comes the typical white sociopathic racist gleefully derailing and
    making white supremacy and systematic racial oppression all about how THEY are
    the victims–again. ::Eyeroll::.Look azzhole, “reverse racism” doesn’t exist. Grow the fxck up and read a book. If you have a problem with reading the TRUTH about racism, don’t slither onto black website and WHITE WHINE about becoming acquainted with the truth. Go elsewhere and stay in your ignorant white bubble. Or better yet, maybe you can talk when you have to deal shopping while black, the school to prison pipeline, racist hiring practices, racist wage disparities, housing discrimination, redlining, predatory lending, food deserts, the War on Drugs [aka the War on Black people], stop and frisk, over-policing, racist healthcare practices that lead to low birth weights and high infant mortality rates…shall I go on? No one gives a FLYING FXCK about your hurt feelings when black people out here are dealing with ACTUAL real racial oppression every day of their freaking lives. Get the fxck out of here Ms. “White Tears.” ::Eyeroll::

    • TheV

      You’re pretty much an angry, ugly, c^nt.

      • mmmdot

        Lmao! Um, stop confusing the rest us with you and your crusty, raggedy, S.T.D. ridden streetwalking ho of a mother, ROACH. Take it back to the GUTTER you crawled out of before I spray some Raid, you inbred barnyard animal fxcking sociopath.

  • Nina

    Well ain’t a lot of “equal” thinking out there. Until we are treated like equals, which we are still not, it’s going to be us and them/you. This is the thinking of at least 50% of Caucasians on it in case you didn’t get that. White people are the reason Michelle Obama needs a place where she is appreciated and not banned from giving speeches or called ape or monkey. She also doesn’t have to hear the way her husband is trashed on a daily basis. She has a safety zone among black people. Where do you think we are going to be honored, so many accomplishments by black girls and women would never be mentioned if it wasn’t for shows like, “Black Girls Rock”. We sure can’t wait for White people to do it, therefore as long as these circumstances exist it’s going to be us and ya’ll. Check your history…Caucasians are the people who made this shows a necessity so thank you white people.

  • Nina

    White people and white women especially have and always will have validation of who they are. They are the mainstream face of beauty where we don’t get the same privilege, yet they don’t won’t us to be recognized by our peers. The problem is they have a sense of entitlement and can’t comprehend this because then they feel excluded and this certainly can not be since they have privy or access to everything. They have the world at their feet and can’t stand the small corner by comparison that we need to elevate ourselves. Now there is the sense that they need to be appeased because of their complaining over this issue when they need to realize just how spoiled and racist they really are. This commentator that claimed that the ish would hit the fan if there were a white girls rock, where has she been? It has a been common for white girls to rock. Black people can’t have anything for white people feeling like they should have their hands in it.

  • rgrowley

    Hey, here’s an equal thought. How about George Bush announcing “White Girls Rock”
    Okay? Let’s be fair. Americans are not stupid, we are well read and know the difference.

  • rgrowley

    I read from the postings here words, “people”, and “they”, and guess what? all these terms are meant to divide. Tell me I’m wrong in your truth that when said by your writings “people” and “they” is that racism?

  • rgrowley

    Marginalization of a culture is a form of racism. Yes, Mrs. Obama marginalized and she did so in public. She behaved racist minded. Obama also said racist remarks in her American Indian speech saying, “Indian country”. Heck define Indian country Obama Madame. Also please define Black Country, Mexican Country, Asian Country….etc. Mrs. Obama even has her husband marginalizing his roots as an Irish. Obama may be the best Irish-American President we’ve ever had up to now except for his wife poisoning the well water.

  • Ebony

    Stop including your so called struggled in our struggle because it will never ever compare. You’re not black and you will never have not even an ounce of understanding of the black woman’s struggle.

  • Ebony

    What has empowering black girls and black women taken away from them? What are they afraid of?

  • White w Nigerian Fiancee

    I don’t know when those “days” were, or where, but to my knowledge, that hasn’t happened yet. People still “see colour” whether they treat people differently or not. Most people have at least some misconceptions or racial stereotypes in mind when they think about a particular race. It’s ingrained in our culture, and it’s disgusting.

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  • Dawn

    I think it was out of line for her to be there, yes all women rock but why is she only there to support the black ones. Her being the First Lady she should be supporting all women but it does not look that way. Being a white women, I know that if a white person would say that “We Rock” it would be considered racist.

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  • Rappa’

    black women, please don’t fall for their 1960’s feminist, togetherness bullshit, again.

  • TheREALSmh

    Ugh, bye!

  • disqus_bzEDTePZed

    No i am not surprised at the back lash especially as it is all RACIST WHITE PEOPLE who are lashing out. Black Girls need a Role Model of their own and if Michell Obama attend that GOOD ON HER she has two BLACK CHILDREN. To bad “MICHELLE OBAMA ROCK”

  • Shinji’s Soul Reaver

    I’m white and I support Black Girls Rock. White Amerikkkans as a whole are embarrassing AF.

  • Aussie Sutra

    The whole idea of having a racist TV channel like BET is appalling in the first place. Typical of the ridiculous Obamas to support it.

  • cc

    Don’t they have a Latina girls rock also?

  • mmmdot

    Go cook yourself to a CRISP on top of your burning cross you OBSESSED white piece of racist shxt. “Reverse racism” doesn’t fxcking exist, you inbred sociopathic white maggot. Learn the difference between racism and prejudice and read a fxcking book. Shut your wet-dog smelling, sister fxcking, inbred, redneck, albino monkey, poo flinging azz the hell up and stop bothering Black people because YOU don’t know what racism is. Kay, dummy? ::Eyeroll::

    • guest

      No there is no such thing as “Reverse racism” because racism is not just white people against black people. Racism is any race against another. Maybe instead of you telling others to open a book maybe you should do the same.

  • cc

    You don’t get it.Your comment is sophomoric and lacks critical thinking.There is so much going on in the world and I don’t understand why you would be so up in arms.I also don’t like your usage of you people.

  • mmmdot

    “But what about white people/white women! Waaah!” If you have a problem with reading the TRUTH about racism, don’t slither onto black website and WHITE WINE about becoming acquainted with the truth. Go elsewhere and stay in your ignorant white bubble. Or better yet, maybe you can talk when you have to deal shopping while black, the school to prison pipeline, racist hiring practices, racist wage disparities, housing discrimination, redlining, predatory lending, food deserts, the War on Drugs [aka the War on Black people], stop and frisk, over-policing, racist healthcare practices that lead to low birth rates and high infant mortality rates…shall I go on? You people are sociopathic and self-centered beyond belief and it’s despicable If you’re whining about “feeling bullied” when people are sitting up here talking about SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION and HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, you need to grow up.No one gives a FLYING FXCK about your hurt feelings when black people out here are dealing with ACTUAL real racial oppression every day of their freaking lives.Get the fxck out of here Ms. “White Tears.” ::Eyeroll::

    • TheREALSmh

      Omg! I live for this comment! Keep speaking that truth, Sis! My stomach turns thinking about how whiny and needy these women are! Smh

    • Jacob Tautiaga

      Wow, you have issues. Her comment was actually calm, it was YOU’RE comment that was winy. How ironic. I don’t even think you read her comment. You just saw “white female” and went ballistic LMAO.

  • cc

    Thank you so much for moderating or deleting ignorant comments.Some people can’t even have intelligent conversations.It shows the depth of ignorance and mental delays in some people.

  • cc

    It could be because you’re older or not what your white peers view as appealing.Maybe that’s why you don’t feel supported.But have you been constantly told directly or indirectly you’re ugly or unappealing because you’re black.

  • teppuM

    People need to stop with the “all people” substitution thing when disadvantaged groups try to build themselves up. It is REALLY annoying. The color blind world (“one day we wont see color!”) does not and will not ever exist. The end of racism comes with acknowledgement and ACCEPTANCE of the differences between people, not pretending you don’t see them.

    • White female

      Yeah, but people want to feel special before seeing all the similarities. People want to rule in s hitty magazines and be cute, star in lame movies and have competitions over that unartistic c rap.

      har har

      pull the other one, people

      • White female

        I mean, so forwardthinking, isn’t it.

      • teppuM

        I’m sorry, I really have no idea what you are even attempting to say. Pfft.

  • Aj

    We don’t care what white women think! Black people are rising up, in tv shows, movies, and other areas that have been ugly to people of color, now that blacks seem to be doing their own thing, it is all of sudden a problem that whites are not involved the same thing they did and still do, can dish it out but can’t take it, well too BAD!!! BLACK GIRLS DO ROCK AND ALWAYS WILL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Angela Jordan

    LOL. Chinese Festivals, St. Patrick’s Day, Columbus Day, Latino Awards and TV Channels… everyone’s like yeah! Culture! But when Black people organize, it’s met with sooooooo much backlash, because it “excludes” others. It’s celebrates the afro experience. There’s as much racism in that as there is in the “Billboard Latino Awards”. Any attempt to counteract the widely accepted and perpetuated myth of “Black Inferiority” is met with such opposition. To be Black should be met with shame and bowed heads…. oh, no. This lie must stop here and now. Black Rocks, Black Girls Rock.

  • Tia Smiley

    I’m not surprised, they want us to hate ourselves.. So I say eff them and their feelings BLACK GIRLS ROCK end of discussion 🙂

  • MitchPhillips2

    Too bad the Occupier of the White House’s wife couldn’t have just said “Girls Rock” but just too easy to be sexist and racist. If some white woman had gotten up in front of a crowd like this and said “white girls rock” there would have been holy hell to pay from the race hustlers. The same if a Chinese woman or Latina had said it … but that’s the world we live in with the PC police and race hustlers on the prowl.

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  • Trabia Major Towns

    they hate when we get a little love, im sick of white people, i mean really sick of them.

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  • YazzyBelle

    If I was Michelle I would’ve been like I can y’all better then I can tell it..and posted a series of photo ops at the event. They would have a reason to be mad alright.

  • Janet P

    Look at the newsstand and the bookstores…white white white women on the covers all day long!!! White america does not celebrate our beauty hence we must!!!

    • White female

      AND most of those magazines are super boring

      So you want to be featured in boring magazines ?

      I don’t !

  • AbigailTea

    White Women know that they are the standard of beauty around the world in every single country. They try to play slick and confused acting like they don’t know what the hell is going on. So when we have our moments like “blackgirlsrock” they want to step in because they cannot fathom their conceited stuck up @sses not hogging the spotlight.
    They are so fcking annoying I swear I try not to even have white female friends.They are SHADY as hell, snooty, and think every black man wants them or that the world evolves around them. *sigh*

    • White female

      White alone is not the standard. The standard is, imo, a very limited template and only a few fit that standard, which is not a large portion of white girls, nevermind women.

      The standard seems to be limited for all “races”.

      • White female

        additionally:

        And if a boring f art of a magazine editor doesn’t deem me the standard, I am glad. I wouldn’t want to represent the boring image they propagate.

        thank you

    • cc

      So true.They get mad when a black man doesn’t want them.They don’t understand it.

  • Guest

    Why must White people crash parties they were not invited to?! Anything that is not in line with the White agenda is deemed a problem.

  • Sam Malone

    OK….I take that back! I made a mistake when I refreshed! Will blame my age. 🙂 Sorry for the repeat!

  • Sam Malone

    Interesting. As a minority on this site – an older white man, my post was originally up and subsequently removed. I’ll try posting again. I am a regular on Madame Noire’s site. I like the stories and features. All I wrote before was that I was glad to see Michelle Obama support Black Girls Rock. Girls of all ages, color and ethnicity need support and encouragement to attain their goals and aspirations. I saw it in my own daughter, who is Korean, who struggled through various confidence issues as she grew up. She is now a successful nurse at a local hospital and is a wonderful young woman. So, whether it is from the First Lady or any other ladies out there…support the girls…in whatever forum! I hope this post gets to stay! 🙂

  • Sam Malone

    OK. I am a minority here – older white man who enjoys the Madame Noire site and stories. I voted for Obama twice and I’m glad that Michelle supported Black Girls Rock. Girls of all ages, color, and ethnicity need support and encouragement to pursue their goals and aspirations. I saw it in my daughter, who is Korean, as she struggled through various confidence issues as she was growing up. She is now a successful nurse at a local hospital and is a wonderful young woman. So…whether from the First Lady or any other ladies out there…support the girls…in whatever forum!

    • HMMMMIJS

      Kind words! Be blessed Sam.

  • ta2t2o

    Amazing that the same “victimized” group always has an issue with this type of thing. In the US it appears that you can’t uplift one group without another group somehow feeling slighted because of the other group. Nobody said White Girls Don’t Rock. If you want to say white girls rock – say it. I get the impression they think that Black Girls Don’t Rock – by their protestations. It’s the same thing with these religious freedom bill. Giving gay people rights – doesn’t in anyway take away your rights. If you’re saying that you should have the right to refuse service to gay people – what you’re saying is that you should have the right to discriminate. You’re just trying to use your religion as a front for your bigotry. We’re on to you. However – it always seems like it’s the same White Conservative group – who have ALWAYS had privilege who are feeling ‘victimized”. Clearly their privilege is no longer special when they’re not the only ones getting those privileges (we call them “rights”) anymore. They just don’t like to share.

  • Corrine McBurney

    I must have a made a very valid point if everyone was so threatened they flagged it and it had no inappropriateness in it. Actually makes me feel good.

  • kritikosman

    OK, All girls rock–some of the time……. 🙂

  • crow

    I will never understand why the people who benefit the most from this USA, also feeling like they still need more, can the same people help pull each other up sometime without it being an issues, we always hear how the blacks need to live better, get more education etc, so when we react to help each other and shine the light on who is doing good here comes the whites feeling like something wrong, for 6 yrs she has been hated and called names and now you have an issues with her supporting the black with the most issues..

  • GoldenGirl;)

    Why NOT, she was once a black girl! The First Lady of The United States attended Black Girls Rock! WHY NOT!!!:D

  • Corrine McBurney

    So I guess because my girls are mixed they only half rock? And their mom who is white and asian just doesn’t. That is the message my kids have received. They asked me this! And by the way, regardless of how you feel about white women (these comments are full of angry racist people), you are suggesting entitlement while seeking equality. It was in poor taste for the First Lady to promote separation. I can’t wait for the day when people don’t see color in America. How can you say you want to be looked upon as a person but then define yourself by your color?

    • Dee

      You, just like most of the white women pretty much failed to see the point. See, no black woman or girl or guy complained about this at all. See , I don’t see any of you running when jokes or stereo types are made but the moment when something like my black is beautiful or black girls rock come, all of a sudden it becomes racist. Really? so when did black empowerment become racist? Was it before or after white women started complaining about it?

      • Corrine McBurney

        The standard in AMERICAN society may be to be light with straight hair. The standard is to also be anorexic thin. The standard is fake and everyone knows that. There doesn’t need to be a White Women Rock, there needs to be a Girls Rock is my point. Also I never stated that black empowerment was racist, I said the majority of the comments here on this specific page are racist. I am white and ASIAN, yet you chose to define me by my color and choose the side that would be more convenient for your attack.. You also assumed, because of the color of my skin that I would not stand up when jokes or stereotyopes were said. WRONG ASSUMPTION. I for one, have black children. MY DAUGHTERS are BLACK, Asian and White, yet the majority of their ethniticity is 50 % black and the other half is white and asian. I stand up for everyone. Whats right is right and whats wrong is wrong. Don’t group me in your hatred for the White Woman. Also I will say this, My daughters, who are BLACK did have something to say. They said do I only half Rock Mommy? How come you have to be black to rock mommy? I didnt say anyone was racist. What I said was this “If you don’t want to be defined by color, why would you contradict yourself and turn around and define yourself by color?” I don’t sit back and allow anyone to be racist towards myself, my boyfriend or our children. Unbeknownst to you, I grew in Baltimore, MD, in the inner city. Sometimes in my group, I was the only “white” person. I have seen racism from all sides and I promote INTEGRATION and EQUALITY. I don’t focus on one specific race or separate myself from other races. There is nothing wrong with empowerment or the Black Girls Rock group at all except the contradiction of “Don’t define me by race, but you just did” All women of all colors are beautiful! Period and BLACK GIRLS ROCK too!

        • Dee

          You missed it again. Keep sliding. You sound exactly like the rest of the White women who are complaining about this. Black girls rock coming from a woman who used to be a black girl and is now a Black woman with 2 black girls is exactly what it is meant to be. We don’t need White validation to say this. That is what you’re looking for. The organization wasn’t created to tear anybody down. There isn’t a “you’re not included” sign. Me being black is a part of who I am. It is my culture, my skin, my beauty, and apart of my ancestry. The problem is again is not race. There is nothing wrong with people being prideful about being Indian, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Chinese, Korean, or whatever. There a number of cultural pride fest and organization that aren’t just Black. White People, depending on their part of Europe celebrate this all of the time. I want you to go and tell the Irish don’t have pageants or parades. Tell Italians to not celebrate anything, along with it, let Greeks and Jews know they can’t do anything based on their culture. Black doesn’t mean African American. There are black women in every culture, who are looked down upon and told they are less than by the masses because they are not the “White standard” of beauty. If you want your child to accept who they are fine and they are apart of black girls rock as well. If you haven’t looked into the organization to see what it stands for, you have no comment. Most of the comments on here are not racist because it wasn’t us who made the complaint. There was nothing to complain about. Yet, you still support the grammys and Oscars. You want to really hate on something how about the Woman who just won for miss Universe Japan? She is half Japanese and black but yet was told by her own ppl, she doesn’t represent Japan because she is only half Japanese. Saying Black girls rocks DOES NOT reject all girls. Only angry white ppl have come up with that statement to some how make themselves feel better. You’re just digging the hole with them.

  • frances

    This woman has beauty, intelligence, class, and grace especially under pressure. She has been subjected to some of the ugliest, most racist remarks, and this was just another excuse for her haters to pile on her. I love the way that she took part in uplifting girls that this society consistently devalues, and it’s obvious that she can do nothing right in their eyes anyway. She should just keep on doing her and forget about the intellectual midgets who have to nitpick everything the First Family does.

  • LeVerta Tehillah-Yael Davis

    ANYTIME someone of importance stand for the people that are not white skinned or from an european background, it is going to be criticized; white supremacy america does not want people of other ethnic groups to be recognized, encouraged, recognized or empowered. Sad but it is true.

  • oscardgrouch

    They can kick rocks…

  • Veracifier

    I would just like to apologize for my fellow white people,and I plan on hitting the tanning booth with gusto.

    • White female

      You don’t need to apologise for me. I don’t even know you.
      And if your Italian etc, you also don’t need a tanning booth. Well, neither do further up north people as tanning happens naturally for many.

      • White female

        *you’re

  • DaTruf

    White women LOVE to play the victim. It’s like their favorite passtime. I think it’s left over from when white men ran to their sides to give them “comfort” during slavery when some “dark neanderthal” hurt their sensitive, delicate feelings in some way. Despite the fact that white women are ALL you see on television and are ALL you see when it comes to beauty standards of today in the media, black women having a few minutes in the limelight just utterly chaps their ashes. I mean, why should black women be recognized for anything other than being single mothers, welfare queens, and hoodrats despite the fact that a black woman is the first lady of this country, right?! Why should black women be seen as beautiful despite centuries of their men raping us? These folks need to go take some seats and fill out hurt feelings reports to give to somebody who gives a damn, because I am utterly and totally #UNBOTHERED by their jealousy and greed for attention. Everyday is a damb white girls rock event in America. Just turn on the tv at any given moment. Heaven forbid black girls get an hour or two to celebrate their beauty, intelligence, and grace.

  • On screen I’m Nifa Dean

    Ooooh chile’! White people are aways in their feelings. They stay on that ‘whataboutme’ train, bleating about inclusiveness. Shite, just be quiet for once. As far as race is concerned, YOU ARE TAKEN CARE OF! They don’t even pretend to want to understand why all these initiatives exist for black women or WOC. Or POC for that matter. They say things like “what about asians, arabs, latinos’, and the rest like they really give a hoot about those groups. All they’re interested in is their whataboutery and I’m tired of it. We need to keep on doing these things, so that they know that 1. we are here doing our thing, and always will be and 2. Black girls do rock dammit!

  • afroqueenchic

    Well now u see how it feels to be left out. Get over yourself. Michelle Obama has 2 black daughters. She can relate to this event. Good for her.

  • RELAX YO

    I am white and have no problem with this. I do think all the racist comments against white women are a little ironic though.

  • Terrible

    This great event happenes to support black girls and time is wasted focusing on a handful of inevidable negative comments from the INTERNET. I expect better from a site thats geared toward black women. When the First Lady shows up for something like this you support her…you don’t shed more light on the ignorant trolls of the Internet. Shame.

  • Wow

    Isn’t this site sitE supposed to be ge

  • jill j.

    I see politicians every St. Patrick’s Day participate in parades. There are all sorts of ethnic festivals celebrated around this country that political people gladly/freely participate in without censure. As a descendant of multiple generations of slaves in the U.S.A., I don’t have the privilege of an ethnicity (no disrespect to my sisters from the diaspora who do).– that was robbed from me. So the “Black” that I am left with, not meant as anything to be proud of by those who labelled me thus, is what I chose to wear with honor. How dare ignorant, uneducated opportunists twist what they/ their ancestors created (Black) and try to use the only unifying label many of us have as a weapon against us. As long as other ethnic groups can proudly honor their heritage in what ever way they chose, we can take what little we have and join together in celebration.

    • SistaHQ20/20

      And let the people say, amen!

      • Honest T.

        Is any group put under the microscope like black women? All white groups just go by ethnic names and people don’t think twice about it.

    • Honest T.

      Miss Irish Eyes, D.A.R. , etc. definitely see all sorts of ethnic groups gathering. To those complaining about Black History month, I see they haven’t bothered to pick up a book and learn anything about what “black” means , where black came from (as it’s used now) and why some of us have had our ethnicities stolen.

  • Hi. I appreciate my president’s wife sharing positive, uplifting thoughts. However I would appreciate her more if Mrs. Obama addressed the REAL concerns many Americans girls have to deal with.

    That problem many children/teens/girls encounter is listening to women like Vivica Fox, Taraji Henson and Wendy Williams glorifying men and teens who write Rap and Hip Hop performance lyrics essentially characterizing their moms, sisters, grandmas and daughter as witches and bhores.

    Don’t believe me, watch a recent YT vid where American celebrities Williams and Henson proclaim their love for a man named PitBull who writes lyrics like this, Search; PitBull lyrics “305 Anthem”.

    Mrs. Obama you are telling girls to make intelligent choices while these same girls are being told by world famed superstars to admire emotionally damaged men who write lyrics disrespecting peaceful people in American communities.

    Mrs. Obama, PLEASE get tough and address the REAL issues affecting many people in ALL American communities!

    Thank you.

    #protect-kids-from-irresponsible-caregivers

  • Tia Nia

    When Jews have their balls and coming of age celebrations, no one has a problem with it . In every culture people take out time to honor their youth and people in their society that are worth emulation. The more Black people honor the accomplishments of note worthy people , the more others will try to emulate their accomplishments. No one with half a brain should be opposed to portraying Black accomplishments. God knows the negative images are going viral everyday. HATS OFF TO OUR 1st LADY who is encouraging Black young women to be the best they can be. 1st Lady Obama ROCKS !

  • JCBaby

    Wow… I believe WHITEGIRLSROCK came on a few weeks ago… it was called “The Oscars”

    • White female

      And who watches that c rap ?

  • CJ

    It is really sad that with so much that needs to be discussed in this world, this is what people want to focus on. This is a black woman uplifting black youth. She didn’t disrespect any other race. This was an event for “BLACK GIRLS ROCK”. If you wanted her to empower all girls have a program for that purpose and invite her.

  • I Don’t Care

    What happened to all the Interracial Love? We have for one another?

  • larryjames398

    Why white girls can’t rock ? Well,it’s hard to rock with a flat rear.

  • TheIGofSA

    she is just a bigot

  • hil

    White people are really not that smart. If you google “pretty women” or “pretty little girls” it’s easy to see what the purpose of Black Girls Rock is all about. The stupidity of those complaining about it is just devastating!

    • White female w part Caribbean

      Because all white women see “pretty women” or “pretty little girls” as something to look up to.

      A bit of intelligence on your part (you personally) wouldn’t go amiss.

  • Toria Dorsey

    I say The First Lady goes wherever she chooses. Black Girl Rocks is a way of putting black women in a positive light for a change. I’m sick of the drama shows. Anyway, the show caters to black women, but no one said that women of others races couldn’t attend. Damn!

  • M.I.T. Peterson

    I guess nobody saw this part of the statement from the First Lady’s assistant “an event to help empower and mentor young women of color.” Get a life.

  • lilrockdiva

    Frankly I don’t care what they are feeling.

  • MitchPhillips2

    Too bad the Narcissist In Chief’s wife couldn’t have simply said “Girls Rock” ….. but that would be below her … it’s always about race.

  • Estella Cohen

    Who gives a …. what they say. Get your own party and “don’t rain on my parade” Black Girls Rock!!!!

  • Fuck’em… or better yet … Give Absolutely No Fucks!

  • Guest7

    In the day in age when white men are slandering our your black girls(Mo’ne Davis, Quvenzhane Willis, etc) we need programs like this to show our young black girls that we are beautiful in spite of what other races or even some of our own self hating people think. And for the FLOTUS to participate lets us know that we too can achieve greatness. Just keep pushing past the haters. I’m glad Mrs Obama was apart of this. The FLOTUS rocks!! And white people have several seats and stay mad cause we always gonna rock.

  • Jazmine Melendez

    To be honest, I’m surprised they haven’t raised a stink before. I don’t believe this is her first time attending. But we’re getting close to election time, so they’re gonna throw everything INCLUDING THE KITCHEN SINK at them.

    • mmmdot

      Oh, they have. Sorry, but this is how most white people are – they ruin EVERYTHING for EVERYBODY that’s not them and then they project their sociopathic,, self-centered behavior onto other people. There is NO EXCUSE for adults who call themselves “educated” and “civilized” people to be behaving this way, but yet they do it EVERY single day. It’s just…disgusting.

  • GOD IS LOVE

    You can tell by some of these comments and name calling that they are lacking intelligence and an education. It doesn’t take name calling and putting others down to get your point across. I realize that saying your flawless makes you feel better, but you are lying to yourself. Nobody in the world is perfect or flawless. We all have flaws no matter what color we are. When you talk about others you are criticizing what GOD made because he made all of us and GOD doesn’t make mistakes. So if you have to resort to name calling and putting others down just know that you will be judged one day as we all will. GOD wants us to love each other not hate. So if you want to call others names and talk about them you must think your way is better than GOD’S way and that is sad.

  • mmmdot

    “I am all for the empowerment of disadvantaged groups, I just don’t see how alienating an oppressed group i.e. women by focusing on a subset of that group, helps anyone,” << Dafuq? First of all there are more BLACK WOMEN and other women of color in this world than white women, but the ONLY "subset of women" we focus on are those conniving,
    homogenized, factory farm, crusty bleach bottle blond Becky white women and "feminists" who don't give a fxck about anybody but themselves.

    White people are SUCH entitled sociopaths it's disgusting. Most will INSTINCTIVELY do ANYTHING to maintain white supremacy and white domination no matter if they're liberal, conservadumb, radical, atheist, LGBT, Jewish, feminist, etc. Racism isn't a liberal or conservadumb political issue – it's a WHITE PEOPLE ISSUE. The problem is WHITENESS as a social location of power. I wish they'd read a fxcking book so they'd stop sounding so damn stupid when they talk about race. ALL they "know" about race is white supremacist ideology AND the phony azz "colorblindness" they use to pretend that they're not racist anymore and I'm OVER it. Michelle Obama is an African American woman with two growing African American daughters – affirming their BASIC HUMAN DIGNITY comes first. Period.

    • ElizabethGStone

      Calling white people entitled sociopaths is racist itself so you’re no better.

    • RELAX YO

      You sound so racist.

      • mmmdot

        Guess what, tard? “Reverse racism” doesn’t fxcking exist. Learn the difference between racism and prejudice, you white trash racist. Don’t log back on until you read a REAL anthropologically and sociologically sound history book and actually UNDERSTAND all the words inside it. Stop bothering Black people just because your stupid white azz doesn’t know what racism is. Mmmkay?

        • guest

          Racism is not just White people towards Black people. Please look up the definition of the word.

    • double standard lmao

      Some of that sounded quite sociopathic

      Funny, one doesn’t like it in others but fine for oneself.

  • tina cadasee

    And they can stay in their feelings. It is plenty of white women that understand why we need this. cant please everybody.

  • Guest

    It’s so funny to me, they have no problem hurling all sorts of racial epithets at this woman, and she doesn’t say A WORD, but the minute she uses her voice to uplift black women instead, it’s a problem. The fact that there are STILL people unashamed of bashing the First Lady of the US because of her blackness, should tell you why such an organigazation like black girls rock is needed.

    • Estella Cohen

      That’s why it was so important for her to be there. Her position as FLOTUS has made her vulnerable to attack. Glad she took this opportunity to take her power back!!!

  • MimiB

    In the words of Corrupt the Poet… “Eat a d**k” white folk…. The free world is owned & operated by you…& 85% of the media shows ya’ll as rockin 24/7
    This is how I show my daughter she matters & is represented.
    BTW…. Maybe you should sport a “white girls rock” tee…then you wouldn’t be so worried about us

  • sekhmet

    I guess White people are the only group allowed to take care of their base. The bottom line is this, they are intimidated by us, period. They’ve spent such a long time on their campaign to diminish our beauty and strip away our strength, that when it is put on display and celebrated they don’t know what to do, so they panic and label our attempt to shine and our rejection of their beauty standards as reverse racism. Why do you think Black women have such a hard time with the decision to embrace our natural hair in the workplace or any place for that matter? Newsflash white
    folks the con game is not working anymore, so keep bitching and moaning and exposing your racist proclivity every time you feel threatened, all you are doing is proving our point.

    • ElizabethGStone

      Excuse me? We have to live in fear of you because you are constantly violent toward us. Yet these crimes are ignored by the mainstream media in favor of vice versa. And if these crimes ARE mentioned, the news censors your race and calls them “random crimes” instead of “hate crimes” due to liberal political correctness. Look up “media blackout” and “knockout game” for proof. You make up 13% of the US population, but commit half of all violent crimes. You are hired over us because of “affirmative action”, despite being less qualified. You have your own history month, entertainment network, sororities, etc. You can get away with calling us “crackers” and the like. Our tax money is spent on you and your children so you can “turn your life around”. We have to walk on eggshells around you out of fear of offending you because we’re aware of how you are when you’re mad.

      • N’Dambi Zaire

        Thank you for proving our point on the cluelessness, ignorance and downright stupidity of many White women. You ma’am are a severe discredit to your race.

        • ElizabethGStone

          Are you saying that facts are clueless, ignorant, and stupid? Too bad the liberal media brainwashes this country into thinking that. I pity you.

        • Jaime

          That b1tch is stupid! She has no idea how idiotic her comment is!! Does she not realize that pretty much every month belongs to them and they’re constantly bring down black people because they feel they’re “superior?”

          • Liz

            Calling me a b1tch. How classy. If there was a White History Month, we wouldn’t be superior, we’d be equal. But you don’t seem to want that, do you? Also, how do we bring you down? You bring us down by playing the race card and trying to make us feel guilty for something we didn’t even do. Enough with the pity-party.

          • Jaime

            Liz, you’re nothing but a racist idiot who does nothing but go on African American sites and bash black people and generalize them. Who’s throwing the race card? No one is here throwing a pity party but you sure are throwing a b1tch fit. I don’t know why this article is upsetting you. I guess you expected to see a negative article about black people since you Love generalizing black people as criminals as you’ve done on other new sites. Sorry to burst your bubble, Not every black person is a criminal. Many are educated and are going as far as wanting to uplift other young black girls who have a disadvantage. I guess that’s such a bad idea since whites weren’t included. If you can’t see that then you need to come out of that hole you been burrowing in. Oh please! People that think like YOU do not view us as equals. you’d never understand. The reason there had to be affirmative action, black entertainment channels, scholarships for minorities, etc is because bigots like you want blacks to stay oppressed and not have the same opportunities as you. Have you ever been turned down for jobs because of your skin color or told you’re not good enough for a job even though you were qualified?!? Of course, you would never understand!

            • Dee

              Liz, sweetheart. White ppl do more damage all by themselves to
              themselves without black help. There are more white ppl on welfare and
              WIC. WIC, a program that was developed by the black panther party to
              help low income children and women but white ppl are using it up in
              every state. See the problem with racism is that racial empowerment
              becomes a problem to others when they feel threaten. That is why
              segregation and miscegenation laws were put on the books. To protect
              white ppl. You will never find a misceganation law in the U.S. stating
              that Black people couldn’t marry an Asian person but will you find a law
              saying Black people couldn’t marry someone that was Caucasian or even
              Mexican. ( Mexican or Hispanic ppl in some states were considered white,
              on paper) See black ppl walk on eggshells around you. The government
              was made to protect you, just like the laws on the books. You only live
              in fear because black people no longer need your validation on their
              lives. You all can’t maintain the control any longer, so now it becomes
              “scary”.

              • HMMMMIJS

                They live in fear of us cause they can’t crack that whip anymore.

                • grow up

                  Many are not interested to.

                • FastFreddy

                  Keep dreaming rastus,

        • Genica Allen

          Sorry, Elizabeth but you are so wrong. White on White crimes is so huge, you are more likely to be harmed by your white neighbor than a black person. The FBI statistics show white outnumber almost every other race in crime. But you don’t want to know the truth, You will not do the research to find out the truth that you people tell you.

          • Liz

            That’s because there are more whites than any other race. And black-on-black crime is bad, if not worse. Too bad the president and the mainstream news don’t care unless it’s white-on-black/minority. And I never said that white-on-white crime wasn’t huge, did I?

            • Genica Allen

              Come on now Liz, yes there are more white people than blacks, but to say you are scared of us is not fair. As far as Affirmative Action is concerned, studies have proven that a white man with a felony conviction, can get a job faster than a skilled black man without a criminal record. And this is the present. At least Affirmative Action try levels the playing field.

          • Jeanette Noble

            Not true. Look at homicede rates. Blacks commit a much larger proportion of homicides based on their population.

          • Estella Cohen

            Your right Gallen. And don’t forget those serial killers who mostly kill other white people.(and do a lot more disgusting things than just kill you)

        • AdebisisHat

          Sadly, I can’t reply directly to Liz’s unfathomably stupid comment. Clearly, Liz doesn’t believe in reading or education, because if she did, she would know that study after study has conclusively proven that the group that has benefited the most from affirmative action is…wait for it…white women!

          The information is out there and I would urge you to seek it out so you don’t go around embarrassing yourself with your abject ignorance. Oh, but wait, that wouldn’t fit into your narrative of white oppression and then what straws would be left for you to grasp at in order to validate your pathetic self-pity? Please go cry us a river, lol.

    • White female

      I don’t even see other white people as “my base”, I never have, didn’t grow up that way, never was in my world. I’m also not intimidated by “you” (I may be intimidated by an individual but not because of their ethnic group), I think it’s over the top to think that.

      And “their” beauty standards .. the beauty standards are not my beauty standards but it is interesting that people would think all white women have the same beauty standards …

      What a load excuse me

  • fromanotherplanet

    Can we stop making posts and giving limelight to an irrelevant group of ignorant white people on social media? There are always going to be stupid people so let’s stop baiting black people into anger and giving attention to these trolls. These people don’t matter and their numbers are INSIGNIFICANT. Why then should I be sweating my weave over nonentities. Y’all won’t get my blood pressure up with these bait posts. Nope! Bye!

  • Ash

    Why do white women care what black women are doing? I didn’t hear any white women asking why was there a million man march geared towards all men instead of black men. They always get on the defensive when it involves black women. When the first lady was being called an ape and saying she looked like a transgender I didn’t see an influx of white women coming to her aid to remind her that all women are beautiful. Let us have our moments.

    • TstormVA

      White women never do. So many examples…Mo’Ne, the Williams sisters and FLOTUS. They never come to our defense when we are devalued or degraded.

      Hello White people…we are not asking for your permission!

  • moniqhar

    I Luv the First Lady. I really respect her, so much so Im ashame I slightly lust her husband. I just want to get a good hug and smell his neck to see what kind of cologne he wears that’s all.. Lmao.. The FLOTUS is a shining example of a black girl who rocks and I see nothing wrong with her taking part in the event. Not only is she an example for the world she has two girls who need to know they rock..

  • Baduizm

    The FLOTUS is a black woman married to a biracial man who identifies as black and they are the parents of two black daughters. So why is it so egregious that Michelle chose to participate at Black Girls Rock? Did anyone complain when Laura Bush attended (white) cotillions in support of her daughters?

    • DA-BIG-D

      Yes. OB0MMA is 1/2 white, but do they see him as one of them? No.

  • Sadric

    People get offended over anything. So crazy.

  • kickash

    michelle obama aside, she also has two daughters who are young black women so……they need to get over it. white people say we whine and complain too much but we complain about real issues, they just complain when they feel like they’re being left out of something

    • DA-BIG-D

      Really. Like they Really want to be included in what we do: our communities, our neighborhoods, our schools, our churches, etc. They are coming up with all of this “Blacks are r4c!st” isht to be snide. They know dammed well we don’t have anything that they really want or need.

    • lol

      Yeah, everything is so black and white. lol

  • Yalonda Harris

    This type of response does not surprise me at all. All girls rock, sure. Our girls are rarely told this. Unfortunately we live in a nation where they want black people to stay oppressed and depressed by the images that are portrayed of us. The First Lady has two beautiful black girls of her own who has been attacked by their appearance in the media. I am sure that they feel some type of way knowing that there is someone out here lifting the veil from our girls eyes letting them know that they are more than their behinds, hips, fake hair and thighs. They are beautiful, they are brains, they are doctors, lawyers and might I add future Madam Presidents. If we as a culture do not speak positive in our kids, I can promise you it won’t happen.

    • james edward cooper 3rd

      They all rock, and what you think may be black, may just be just as white as the rest. Everything , is everything here. Michelle Obama did nothing wrong, think about it as this! Most suburbanites, don’t expect for too many black people, to be able to understand rock-n-roll, and when they finally meet one the are happy to tear down racial strongholds in that area of life, and successfully! So give her a big thumbs up! White if it was said that white girls rhythm with blues too! Would I be racist, or just unexpected?

      • james edward cooper 3rd

        What, rather than saying white in the beginning of my statement.

      • White female

        I don’t think everyone rocks and that has nothing to do with colour.

  • Dee

    So if no celebrities would have ever attended this event, all white women would have nothing to say? “I am not racist but white girls rock too”. Really? How could black girls not know white girls rock? Do they have to show studies on how little black girls would prefer white dolls with light skin and long silky hair? Do we have to go to black men who complain that black women are loud and too demanding? Do we have to go back to slavery and talk about how black were used as experiments to figure out female gynecology of for the modern era? Do white ppl have a problem with the word “Black” because this event is was made for WOC? Are they upset that FLOTHUS went to an event that is inspiring you women of color all over the world?

    I guess so because there aren’t enough imagines of white women with privilege on earth.

  • Andrea

    I can understand both sides of this. The simple answer to all of the people who have a problem with the blackgirls rock awards is that they should just make an award show for entitled womenrock.

    • DA-BIG-D

      I am quite sure they have plenty of award shows for women in general, that usually gloss over potential black female nominees. White bi+ches think they supposed to be the center of the universe and isht. FVCK ’em.

      • ElizabethGStone

        Wow, racist are we? Ever hear of affirmative action?

      • Corrine McBurney

        Can you name a few?

        • traboe

          The Oscars, The Emmy’s, the SAG awards, most magazine covers, most leading female roles in televison and film, most commercials advertising beauty products….

    • Eri Cad

      I agree so they can spend two hours giving Lena Dunham award after award after award cause we all know thats what a womenrock award show would be all about.

      • HMMMMIJS

        And Taylor Swift.

      • White female

        Because all white females are into Lena Dunham and Taylor Swift

        HA HA HA

        Come on now *rolling eyes*

        • Eri Cad

          Thats the funniest part many women can’t stand either one of them but the media stays gassing these two up. Lena Dunham molested her own sister and folks still think she’s brilliant

    • jean

      lol!

  • luvly27

    This is the Bottom line BLACK GIRLS DO ROCK, and they need to know it! White people will never understand as they have and could not walk a day in our shoes, White women are not bashed and talked “down” about as Black women and, some times by our own men. It is not about leaving all other races of women out , it is about Celebrating a race of wome THAT SOCIETY CONTINUALLY SAYS IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH! SO TO ALL THOSE WHITE PEOPLE IN THEIR FEELINGS. GET OVER IT! GREAT JOB MRS. OBAMA!! #BLACKGIRLSROCK
    P.S. And to those white people stating that if there where a White Girls Rock….FOR WHAT?
    have your women been told they are unattractive and had every negative statistc stuck to them? NO! SO KEEP IT MOVE’N!
    THAT IS ALL.

    • White female

      White women are bashed, especially now (and this is not a competition, just an observation).

      “have your women been told they are unattractive and had every negative statistc stuck to them? NO! SO KEEP IT MOVE’N!”

      PLENTY of white women are called unattractive, over the hill, are torn to shreds. I don’t know what negative statistics you are talking about but if it’s true, then of course that is infuriating when you’re on the receiving end and that’s where I’d see an imbalance but to think white women aren’t torn apart is a a bit silly. White women being celebrated is not fully true either, only certain types are celebrated, and those types bore me to f -ucking tears, personally .. so I don’t know what this “white women are celebrated” ish is

      I also wouldn’t want to be celebrated by the types that create those templates in boring magazines and crap films

  • April Orcallmetweety Baynes

    Well ain’t that just TOO DAMN BAD!!!!! Isn’t FLOATUS a former Black girl? You remind us weekly, white people about our black POTUS and FLOATUS. So when we wear the badge of honor proudly you have a problem? Crackers, you can’t have it both ways. You down us and we’re black, but when we accept that title, you lose your minds. Guess what, we can really piss you off by coming together as a people and giving you all our posteriors to kiss. #BLACKGIRLSROCK

  • HMMMMIJS

    We ROCK..
    Our skin.. flawless
    The shape of our bodies..flawless
    Our lips.. Flawless
    Our many hair textures.. Flawless..
    Who can look like an African Goddess one day, then give them Naomi Campbell another day? US!

    Black people are beautiful too..Michelle Obama cheek bones…Flawless..lol

  • E.F. Coleman

    But the critics aren’t racist, that’s why anything they can say hateful to our First Family they will. Jealousy, hateful, and very RACIST.

  • Napunzel

    We all knew this foolishness was coming! Aren’t black girls Americans too? How often are we celebrated? People are completely missing the point about the purpose and intent of this show.

    • TstormVA

      Because it’s always about them even when we celebrate us. White supremacy is a motherf*^&er

    • ElizabethGStone

      You guys have your own history month. We don’t.

      • Be Forreal

        It’s called every other Frikkin month of the year. We get the shortest month to celebrate our contributions to this country that are often overlooked to perpetuate the idea the white folks created America, even though every single thing was made on the backs of Blacks. So yes, Black folks do get 28 days to focus on why we are great as well. You get the other 337. Still not enough? Please excuse me if I don’t set aside my people’s oppression to focus on the “glaring disadvantages” and struggles of American white girls in 2015…

        • Venessa

          The history taught in school is basic European white history but when do black kids learn about there history. That one short month is crammed with trying to jam every piece of modern black history in a single month. We never learn about the Kings and Queens of great African countries. I can tell you all about French kings their mistress and bastards how they lived and died, but I can’t name name one non-egyptian royal african.

    • Estella Cohen

      White people only watch it to continually criticize and say we do nothing positive at the same time. Black Girls Rock cause seems everyone wants to copy us,but nobody wants to be us!!!

      • Napunzel

        Truth!

      • Ebony

        Preach!

    • Veracifier

      Oh, Liz. Really? What do you think the other 11 months are? LOL, I’m white and I can smell the BS from here.

    • Veracifier

      The racists are not missing the point. They are using the anonymity of the Internet to safely express their seething anger and hatred.

    • White female

      White women are celebrated by who ? I think the magazines are s hitty, showing only a very limited portion of white females, Hollywood generally s ucks don key’s d ick etc, why would one want to be celebrated by that ?

      Things are not that simple.

  • Neva

    Ignore them, they have envied and coveted melanin for centuries. Some of the pictures from black girls rock were stunning. Black women were looking like eye candy. So feminine and beautifully dressed, with great hair and makeup. We as black women need to challenge ourselves more to be ladies and queens and lead other women. We need to embrace the power of the feminine. All day long you see black women with unkempt hair, rocking Jordans 24/7, smoking, drinking, cursing, not exercising, eating junk food, and they look HORRIBLE. Just run down. Let’s treat our bodies like the temple it is, and let’s stop allowing men to use it as a playground, exercise, and feed it life giving food. Lets dress feminine, get educated, read books, love and respect the men around us and inspire them to be gentlemen. Let’s be better. No more baby mommas, let’s be wives and mothers. Let’s be black excellence, because BLACK GIRLS ROCK!

    • PJC

      Your comment gave me life today. Thank you. That is all. 🙂

    • DA-BIG-D

      Them white women just haters. BLACK DON’T CRACK AND THE BLACK WOMAN DOES NOT CRUMBLE. They mad cuz black woman don’t dry up like raisins after the age of 30, don’t need to go to the plastic surgeon to have a booty or full lips, can look good with long straightened hair, a fro, or bald headed, and have men that are blessed in the bedroom! YOU ARE WHAT THEY WANT TO BE!

      • Neva

        Honestly besides everything you’ve just mentioned here black women are still lacking. We have full lips, but a much higher HIV rate. We have mandingo warriors, but they abandon us and our children. We have skin that keeps its elasticity but, we are single mothers struggling, with little to no net worth. We are blessed naturally, but we need to work on our economic, and social level.

        • DA-BIG-D

          AND STILL I RISE!

  • kierah

    Until white people acknowledge white privilege, as far as I’m concerned, they can stay mad.

    • DA-BIG-D

      Yup. They can stay mad and STFU.

  • N.C.

    You’re damned it you do and damned if you don’t. Why should it be such an issue? Young black women need inspiration just as much if not more. All women should work together!!!! Help each other and want each of us to do better.

  • Guestest

    The main people who say “if white people had a White Girls Rock, people would have a fit” are the main ones who call black women ugly. White women are every damn where and people still look at white women as superior to us black women. If you look on the internet there are so many people who take up for white women (including SOME black men) while basically bullying black women. I hate that young black girls have to read all the slander towards black women. That could make them hate being a black girl and feel some type of way about becoming a black woman. We black women need this for ourselves and especially our young black girls. Get the hell over it white people!!!!!!! Is Michelle Obama not a black girl?

    • DA-BIG-D

      WE HAVE HAD A “WHITE GIRLS ROCK” EVER SINCE THE FIRST DAY THIS COUNTRY WAS FORMED!

      • ElizabethGStone

        Oh, really? Show me.

    • mmmdot

      Thanks to the white supremacy of the past 500 years and the “cult of domesticity” black women are constructed as a subspecies of human and not even considered WOMEN. We are considered the antithesis of “woman”, literally the “anti-woman.” Because of the racial hierarchy, black people are literally considered the “OPPOSITE race”, literally in OPPOSITION to white people. White supremacy dictates that Black people “naturally” have a “negative” trait for EACH “positive” trait possessed by whites. The Black race is considered the “perpetual enemy” of the white race, against whom ALL WHITES must unite. In white hate groups, the worst thing a WHITE MAN can be called is a “n****r lover.” Among everyday whites the idea of “enemy races” is seen in complaints that “unqualified” Black people are “taking white people’s jobs” or Latinos “invading” U.S. borders.

      Since the institution of sl^very depended on Black women to supply future sl^ves, white sl^ve masters used every method imaginable, especially rape, to force enslaved African women to reproduce. To justify the systematic rape of African women, they constructed the notions of white womanhood and Black womanhood. White women: “basically good”, pure, noble, to be honored vs Black women: lecherous, sensual, and animalistic. It even applies to LITTLE GIRLS: white girls were deemed ABNORMAL if they were s@xually active whereas African American girls were seen as INNATELY immoral.

      When black women are considered to be the literal OPPOSITES of the
      paragons of womanhood and femininity what do you think happens to them? There is no way they could ever behave that would EVEN make them WORTHY of ANY kind of protection or sympathy. There is no way to be “respectable” enough to be respected or protected. They have no selves that are even considered socially worthy to “protect.” This fuckery has been going on for 400 years and it hasn’t stopped yet.

      • LifeLibertyPursuitOfHappiness

        Your comment regarding black women being raped, beaten and murdered more than other ethnic groups in America has nothing to do with racism. Black men commit a disproportionate amount of crimes compared to other racial groups and their victims are predominantly black as well. Black men are responsible for the vast majority of rape of black women as well as violent crime. It may have been whites 50 or 100 years ago but in modern society it is black men that are largely responsible for these atrocities. So unless black men are racist against black women then your comments should be primarily directed towards the males of the black community:

      • AdebisisHat

        PREACH!

      • White female

        Not every white person sees it that way. Not everyone is super competitive when it comes to race either. I see this coming up now and growing up in a multicultural city we had a much more lighthearted way with eachother. I hate it that that is being destroyed, people should have more respect for eachother, especially when the person is nice.

        • A Black Girl Who Rocks

          If you truly feel that people should respect each other than you should be in support of Black Girls Rock. Take some time to look into the organization. If you love all people than why can’t you celebrate Black girls? There is nothing wrong with telling someone that they should embrace the beauty they have on both the outside and inside.
          Imagine how powerful it would be for White, Latino, and Asian women to also tell these young Black girls that their skin and hair are beautiful and that they are capable of being and doing anything.

      • LakkaMellannmaksUsmart

        Never heard such bullshit in my life , & it kicked into high gear Jan. ’09 & hasn’t slowed yet,
        Ah mo’ put dis heeya in ebonics so’s yo kin unnastan’ …..
        Yo brillo hedded , blue gum, bannana lip mo fugas hates it heeya so much why don’ aww yo Mo’ fugas jus’ LEEV……swim back to yo’ muthaland wit’ a hispanic unner eech arm …..yo

  • Victoria Morgan

    I agree with you T. T.!! Our young ladies to be uplifted and empowered and know that they too are IMPORTANT and matter!

  • Jayda Brown

    OMG, some of these white women need to get over this foolishness. I applaud Michelle Obama for showing up to the event, and yes Black girls do Rock. 🙂

    • DA-BIG-D

      So tired of them lily white bi+Ches! Always complaining about isht, when they have it the best out of anybody!

      • ElizabethGStone

        You’re racist for saying “lily white bi+Ches”. Good job.

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  • 1Val

    First Lady Michelle Obama is stunning!!!

    • heyheyno

      Yes I love that dress.

  • Mrs.Mason

    i swear we black girls can’t have nothing!!! lol my goodness….im glad she supported the event…we need more black women like that to assist our black girls that are growing up in the world full of kim k’s and amber roses! #BlackGirlsRockkkkkkk

    • ElizabethGStone

      Um, yes, you can. Ever hear of affirmative action?

      • Guest

        White women have that sweetheart. Next?

    • White female

      Amber Rose definately has some admixture. She is not 100% white, I’m sure.

    • Estella Cohen

      We got to take and keep this one for ourselves!!!! CLAIMING IT!!!! BLACK GIRLS ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • T. T.

    Well I’m in my feelings too because I feel we do rock & we now have a black woman who occupies The White House as The First Lady so I myself as a black woman couldn’t be more proud. If it offends anyone my apologies but it should make you even more offended that we need such a celebration since we tend to be the most unappreciated women of the world. #BLACKGIRLSROCK

    • Neva

      Yes mam! They have some nerve. They call her an ape and other offensive names, so when she celebrates her melanin they get intimidated and it’s a problem. White supremacy shakes in fear, when black people sees themselves as beautiful and validate themselves. They can’t stand it. Michelle keep doing you and ignore these Caucasians. Don’t nobody care what a neanderthal got to say!

      • Ebony

        They can’t stand it when we don’t need their validation.

      • guest

        Say that, Sistah!!

      • Jeanette Noble

        Black people aren’t validating themselves by going to some black girls rock nonsense. Black girls rock is for girls who are trying to get validation! Seeking validation that you rock isn’t empowerment. It’s like fishing for compliments.

    • Yvette Antoinette Martinez

      #allgirlsrock

      • heyheyno

        Yes #allgirlsrock and #alllivesmatter but neither of these are what we are focusing on. The awards show is to uplift black women. White women were already uplifted on the oscars when the actress made the statement that gay people and people of color need to fight for equal pay for white women.

      • Shinji’s Soul Reaver

        You sure don’t.

        • Reverse Racist

          LMAO

        • Wolf

          You shouldn’t be talking. weeaboo.

    • TheIGofSA

      Because you are no better than any other bigot

    • positivebeatsnegative

      WORD!!! I had a convo with a co-worker (who happens to be Caucasian) about a chain I have “Black Girls Rock” (no I did not wear it to work, he saw it in a picture) Anyway.

      He says: “What if if white women had a chain that said “White Girls Rock”

      I said “More power to them BUT do they really need it as they are told they rock every single day in every way you can imagine from magazine, TV, stage they are shown they are the best; what is told to us is that we are not worthy enough even for our own men; therefore we have to tell ourselves, our nieces, sisters, cousins and daughters.”

      He goes: “Your right”

      Yes I said all of that because I tell the darn truth to them and it just so happens this person is always open to hear it, we have good discussions without any hostility.

      • White female

        ” in every way you can imagine from magazine, TV, stage they are shown they are the best ”

        And the junk that shows they are the best is the yardstick for all white women ?

        *rolling eyes*

      • cc

        That’s what whites don’t understand.Same thing they say about black history month.Everyday is white history month in Amerikkka.

        • Jeanette Noble

          That’s absurd. When do you ever hear of white historical figures? Hardly ever. There is no reel of white history being shoved in your faces all the time. Demanding a black history month is like demanding a handicapped parking spot for being morbidly obese from overeating. It’s an accommodation for idiots. People who seek out history learn history. This goes for white or black history. History is all around us constantly.

          • cc

            I don’t think you get it and that’s fine.White people rule and run everything in Amerikkka hence why there are things such as black history month.There are also other things such as asian Pacific Islander month and other things where people get to celebrate themselves.I don’t see the big issue.White history month is everyday just turn on your tv and look at magazines.Even in schools all you learn about is white history.In Arizona when they tried to have a minority class which celebrated their heritage all hell broke loose.It was a huge thing.One of the people said if they want to learn about Mexican heritage then they should go back to Mexico.I guess that’s probably something you would say also.What’s the big deal when everything in Amerikka is geared toward whites;what’s wrong with giving us just a little piece.

        • Ebony

          They don’t understand because they’re not tools they’re ugly with ugly features, they don’t understand because no matter what they’re always out on a pedestal. They simply don’t understand what it’s like to be a black woman.

          • rgrowley

            Define “they’re” because this sounds like you’re spewing all inclusive language here. All inclusive language directed at a single culture is a form of racism.

            • Ebony

              They’re is referring to the ones complaining about black girls rock. OMG!

            • Ebony

              And I don’t have to say it because you know what I’m talking about.

          • cc

            Exactly.They just don’t get it.

        • rgrowley

          As you said, “That’s what Whites don’t….blah blah blah.” Again this all inclusive language directed at a single culture and it only tears upon society in racist intent. American Black culture tends to do this and Worldly Blacks not American tend to smirk and laugh about how American Blacks behave racist minded. Okay, what do you say if George Bush said White Girls Rock?

      • Jacob Tautiaga

        So black girls have a lower self esteem?

      • rgrowley

        @ positivebeatsneg(and a bunch of letters thrown together), All inclusive language I read from you is Wrong. Said by you is, “…do they…stage show they are….what is told is we….not worthy.” All inclusive language is highly illogical, and also to direct that language at a certain culture is racist minded.

        You say,”…more power to them, but do they really need it as they…” That is back-sided support for others. As in saying, “yeah I support you, BUT….blah,blah, blah.” That’s pure negative communication and your friend seems too ignorant to catch that.

        Yeah, me too, just as your last wrote in that I tell the truth, racism is racism coming from any culture. Oh yes, Black tend to also be racist.

        • positivebeatsnegative

          Sigh…i don’t have much energy to dissect nor properly absorb what you typed to me: therefore this will be my only response UNLESS you are a black woman… you cannot genuinely UNDERSTAND OR RELATE TO what I said to him and if you are and do not agree with my dialogue of words, why that is your choice; SO you continue to believe me and my friend are racist (AND UNAWARE) and I will continue not to give a damn!! Good day, night, weekend and the rest of your life to your sir/madam…

    • Mzjewels

      Right? That ”yellow is a color, brown is a color” comment had me dying. Yes, all women are important and deserve recognition but why is every single time black people specifically try to uplift themselves, we’re being racist? Black people can’t oppress white people as oppression has to both put the oppressors at an advantage and be in place already in ways they stand to benefit from. I am so damn proud of Michelle Obama. I wish people would stop trying to make her and the president out to be things they aren’t. She’s a great example of what black women can do but people are too busy trying to knock her down because she doesn’t fit into a box or speak to a white standard of beauty.

      • Estella Cohen

        You’re right!!!! They are clueless.

    • ValdaDeDieu

      Do you want to know the last #WhiteGirlsRock show? The 2015 Academy Awards. I guess the dirty little secret of the white establishment is that THEY KNOW they’re not superior — but they’re better at whining and feeling sorry for themselves…

      • Jeanette Noble

        You don’t hear white people crying everything bad that happens to them is because of their skin color. Black people, especially on this joke of a site, are constantly putting whites down in order to feel better about themselves. Believe it or not, white people don’t live their lives worrying about how to maintain white supremacy in order to keep the blacks down. The majority of white people don’t think about race in their day to day lives.

        • ValdaDeDieu

          No, because they’re too busy doing it (it, being bad) to other people! Native Americans mean anything to you, Schlomo? What about the Inuit people? Central Americans? Africans? You’ve brought pestilence, hardship, slavery, wars, rape, decimation and poverty on cultures that were far advanced and therefore, gentler and kinder than yours, all in the name of GREED. So read a history book, and don’t reply idiocy to people more informed than you!

          • Jeanette Noble

            Your comment is all over the place and has nothing to do with the point I made, certainly not invalidating in any way. I have a J.D. and a Master’s in History. Are you sure you wanna go down that road, sweetie?

            • ValdaDeDieu

              I don’t care what you have; you’re just another ignorant, low-bar mouth-breather racist on the internet to me. Don’t “sweetie” me, nimrod. You do not appear to be intelligent, nor well-versed in
              LOGIC, so let me school you.

              What did Europe have??? Did they grow spices? Did they have fine linen, silks? Where did they need to go for that? Why did the monarchs send their ships off to find gold? Why did they have to keep “conquering” indigenous peoples, their lands and
              territories?

              Easy for white people “not to complain” when they’re the ones
              doing the oppressing! No one wanted or needed Europeans
              as slaves; when it came too looks, strength and skill,
              you were considered the bottom of the lot.

              It was only after your diets improved(on the backs of
              slaves and other people you “conquered”) that your women became valued. READ, DAMN IT, and stop bothering me. Your damned ignorance after boasting about a JD is an embarrassment to you.

              • Jeanette Noble

                Wait, are you agreeing that white people aren’t complaining or are you sticking with your original comment that white people are the ones whining and feeling sorry for themselves? I’m Irish and not a single one of my lineal ancestors had anything to do with slavery. Holding baseless grudges against complete strangers does nothing but prove your own hypocrisy. I’m not the one whining about your blackness, cupcake.

                • ValdaDeDieu

                  You are here to perpetuate a lie which has benefited racists like yourself for centuries. We are here to celebrate and affirm a truth which sets humanity free. Look around you. Look at the results of your lies… How are they working out?

                  Black Girls Rock. Black Women Rock. We’ve rocked the cradle. We’ve rocked the kitchen. We rock the bedroom. We now rock boardrooms. We have, do and continue to ROCK Queendoms. There were Queendoms before Kingdoms. We rock the world. We’ve sacrificed and prayed and shed tears and now, this is OUR time.

                  Either lead, follow or get out of the way. BEGONE.

                  And, PS… Cupcake, no one here is whining about “our blackness”… You on the other hand, are here suggesting that we should NOT celebrate it. Remember? How confused can you get, Lil’bit? #GetSomethingAnythingPlease

                  • Jeanette Noble

                    Nowhere did I suggest black women shouldn’t celebrate success. That’s absurd. Black people continue to do amazing things. Who said they didn’t? You so badly want to put words in my mouth, don’t you? I said black people’s segregate themselves based on their race, but would never allow whites to do the same because then it’s clearly racism or discrimination. Your race doesn’t define you, but that’s your whole identity! You use your race as both a sword and a shield.

      • Jacob Tautiaga

        How is the Oscars meant to be #WhiteGirlsRock?

    • Courtney

      By saying #blackgirlsrock, no is saying no other girls rock. No is saying ONLY black girls rock. Why can’t black girls be celebrated all by their selves? I think it is awesome that Michelle Obama was there because she is a black woman is she does indeed rock, as do her daughters. Rock on, ladies!

      • Jeanette Noble

        Because white girls CAN’T say white girls rock or they’ll be slammed for being racist. Black people are such hypocrites.

        • sabelmouse

          seriously!!!

        • White female

          I don’t need a campaign saying I rock !

          • Jeanette Noble

            Neither do I. Black people continuously use their race to segregate themselves, but there’s no way using the white race to distinguish anything would ever be equally acceptable. White groups celebrating their “whiteness” would be under attack for being racially motivated and discriminatory. It’s pure hypocrisy. Michelle Obama wants to lift black girls up, but in so doing, she’s reinforcing the wedge between whites and blacks instead of bringing them together. It’s just another example of how blacks want it both ways.

            • teppuM

              European groups celebrate their heritage all the time. We have a Norwegian society here in Omaha, we have a Bohemian Cafe (that is really famous) that serves traditional Czech foods, there’s a Czech and Slovak history museum – people celebrate all the time.

              And nobody runs into the Norwegian historical society shouting “all people rock!!” like you guys do every time there’s something for a minority group.

              Pfft. Get over yourself Jeanette Noble.

              • Jeanette Noble

                You missed the point. This isn’t about heritage. What a foolish argument you’ve made. This is about race, being black and white. There’s a huge double standard. There could never be a white girls rock event because blacks would cry discrimination and vilify someone as being racist. It happens all the time. Are you that obtuse?

                • teppuM

                  Wow. I’m not even going to dignify that ridiculousness with a response other than HA! You have yourself a wonderful, selective-memory, hypocritical day. hahahahaaaa 🙂

      • Estella Cohen

        That’s right. So sad, wherever FLOTUS goes the hate filed little critters seem to follow. LOL I bet many HAD NOT know about Black Girls Rock until this year when she appeared on the program for the first time.

    • rgrowley

      If talking about feelings, then we cannot debate your feelings because they are important. When talking about the News Media reporting, then feelings do not apply. If a debate is wished then one must leave their feelings out of the conversation. Fact of logic upon 3rd-person news articles. Michelle marginalized other cultures therefore she behaved in racist manner. Fact, even if you think it’s okay for George Bush to say, “White Girls Rock” I would also disagree with Bush.

      • cc

        Bush never had to say #whitegirlsrock because it’s implied.White women are viewed as the best and black women are viewed as the worst.Out little black girls need extra empowerment and encouragement simply because of their skin color and features.That’s a sad reality that most white women and girls don’t need.

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