Reply #15: I think it's sort of a "stay in your place, don't try to rise above your station" sort of thing.

[Tatiana]

I guess that's why all the women of color I know are so strongly supportive of Michelle Obama.

Look at the hate mail Oprah got when she endorsed Obama. It was ridiculous. Ask yourself if she would have been receiving hate mail if she had announced her support for Hillary Clinton or... someone like John Edwards.

No one would have batted an eye.

I deal with it in my workplace on a daily basis. And honestly, the most venom I get is from white women. White men are, in my experience, pretty respectful.

I figure maybe it's some sort of ancestral instinctive remembrance of the time when we used to nurse their babies, wash their laundry and clean their houses.

But whatever. I'm still going to do me.