Joan Rivers’ ‘Blackie O’ Comment Is An Insult to All Black Women and Mothers

Kimberly Seals Allers

I was really saddened and quite frankly, upset, to hear Joan Rivers share recently on national radio that her pet name for the First Lady is "Blackie O." Now, I often find Ms. Rivers hilarious as she pans celebrities on the red carpet and when trying to move her face despite way too many plastic surgeries. But this one, just wasn’t funny.