Missing Mammy: Attacking Michelle Obama

Dr Stacey Patton

06/17/2026

Lemme ask you somethin’ . . . what kind of white man looks at Michelle Obama, or any other Black woman beyond his reach, and needs her to be a man? I’m asking because once again a racist white man tried to remove the former First Lady from womanhood.

It happened this past Sunday night at Donald Trump’s 80th birthday party when UFC fighter Josh Hokit defeated Derrick Lewis on the White House South Lawn. He stepped to the microphone and said: “Michelle Obama is a man. Am I right, America?”

According to news reports, the reaction from the crowd was a mix of cheers, boos, and stunned silence, and nobody bothered to check him in the moment. Now, I want Y’all to really think about this for a sec . . .

I’m not surprised that he said it. These racist goblins have been attacking Obama’s femininity for years because she is beautiful, tall, elegant, brilliant, wealthy, composed, adored, and unbothered. She is married to a man who visibly loves and respects her and she won’t perform fragility for the white gaze. But what was strange to me was when Hokit said those words.

Like dude, you just won a fight in front of the POTUS, with likely millions of people watching at home. Wasn’t you out of breath? Wasn’t your adrenaline pumping hard inside your body? Weren’t you flushed with triumph in that moment? This was supposed to be the fight of your career!

But instead of showing gratitude or giving us the usual post-fight nonsense about dominance and male destiny, you were thinking about humiliating a Black woman’s body that was nowhere near you.