A cartoonist has been accused of racism after he portrayed
Michelle Obama as masculine and butch next to a pageant-ready Melania Trump in
a controversial drawing.
The cartoon - which has been branded
'racist and misogynistic' - shows a muscular Mrs Obama wearing a green dress
with a bulge in the groin area.
Stood next to her is a feminine, smiling
Melania Trump in a pink dress and holding a Trump sign.
The artist Ben Garrison tweeted the
picture on Friday with the caption: '#InTrumpsAmerica The #FirstLady will be
Great Again! #Trump2016.'
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| The artist Ben Garrison tweeted the image of Michelle Obama (left) and Melania Trump (right) on Friday |
Twitter reacted with fury to the drawing, with dozens of people
defending the First Lady.
Femi H tweeted: 'Honestly this is racist
as hell and reverts back to stereotypes that black women are angry and
masculine.'
Imani Gandy wrote: 'Oddly, they feel the
need to denigrate Michelle to prop up Melania, when that's so not the point.
But they're too stupid to [understand] that.'
One user tweeted: 'Why
you body shaming? Michelle is beautiful and great. And not only that, but a
good person. Smh.'
Marcus Wesson added: 'A
Princeton and Harvard Law School educated lawyer vs. a Slovenia high-school
dropout turned model/goldigger. #yeahright'
Another wrote: 'You
know, I'm *just* now noticing the bulge. So it's not only misogynoiristic
AF....it's trans-misogynoiristic AF'.
Garrison later boasted
of the new Twitter followers the cartoon had brought him and called his haters
'cry babies'.
'Satire could strip
naked, paint itself purple and yell "Satire-satire!" and they still
wouldn't see it,' he tweeted.
Garrison is known
for his controversial political cartoons and - looking at his work - appears to
be a supporter of Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump.
He has previously
praised Trump for 'shaking up the neocon-controlled Republican Party', but toldBreitbart that he is more of a libertarian than a fan
of the GOP.
Speaking of Trump, the
cartoonist said: 'He doesn’t require a teleprompter to speak his mind and he
doesn’t give two shakes about political correctness. That’s refreshing. He’s
also fun to draw.'
Culled from Dailymail
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