there s something about the realities of same-sex love and making a family in ways that are non-traditional and i wonder if it s used as a weapon against the non-traditional family. i think there s a particular strategy the obama family themselves are deploying. they are staving off an old school narrative of black pathology. the kind of deadbeat dad, obama articulated a position against. also embodies i feel like they are the living version of the cosby fiction or the kind of bad, black mother that michelle is staving off the stereo types. in terms of other issues gender and sexuality intersection, we could open the conversation beyond the obama family structure. it is the father and the mother. i think there s equality in the