I shall from now on refer to Michellee Obama as Claire Huxtable.
Posted on 02/21/2008 6:44:49 AM PST by Beloved Levinite
Michelle Obama’s thesis embargoed until after the election? posted at 3:56 pm on February 19, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Eh, I hate these stories. For one thing, they invite you to treat someone’s college thesis as though it’s a Rosetta Stone (or Rosebud) to their entire mentality. More than that, for it to be relevant you have to believe they haven’t evolved/matured politically at all since college. We went through a round of this with Hillary a year ago to no effect, but at least she was a candidate. Can’t say I’m real jazzed to go looking for gotchas in the would-be First Lady’s youthful pensees. Think the left will extend Cindy McCain’s background the same courtesy?
Slublog dug around on Lexis and came up with something from Newhouse News last year. Sounds like a fairly standard “identity awareness” treatise: In her 1985 Princeton senior thesis, “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community,” Michelle LaVaughn Robinson lamented that white professors and classmates always saw her as “Black first and a student second.” She had surveyed alumni to see whether they sacrificed their commitment to other blacks on the altar of success, and foresaw for herself an uneasy future: “further integration and/or assimilation into a White cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant.”…
As Michelle Obama wrote in her thesis introduction, “My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘Blackness’ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my White professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.”…
Michelle Obama was guided in her choice of thesis topic by a consuming concern that her success might compromise her black identity. As she wrote in her conclusion: “I wondered whether or not my education at Princeton would affect my identification with the Black community. I hoped that these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with Whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that Black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the black community. However, these findings do not support this possibility.”…
Michelle Obama’s fears of losing touch with her roots without ever being embraced into the mainstream led her to promise, in her thesis introduction, “to actively utilize my resources to benefit the Black community.” Not sure why this would warrant embargoing the thesis, unless it’s to deny Billy Jeff another of those smart little Jesse Jackson comparisons he likes to trot out when he feels the white vote isn’t breaking hard enough towards Hillary.
If you want something (marginally) more relevant, this time having to do with the candidate himself, dig in.
Right after Hillary releases hers...
Hillary’s is already out on the Web, in Adobe format. Wish I had a working link - it seems to vanish as soon as it’s up. Can’t understand it...
Seems Michelle plagiarized the idea from Herself.
Michelle Hussein - race-card playing, victimhood peddling, USA-hating, che-worshipping, whiny ‘rat.
I shall from now on refer to Michellee Obama as Claire Huxtable.
Hmm. Must be a national security secret. Or a potential Hollywood blockbuster, like Harry Potter’s final opus.
The media wouldn’t sit on facts because of politics, would they? Not our “unbiased” media.
That this is being CENSORED until after the election is a damning indictment of our media and political process.
“Reaaalllly?”
It was the racism she felt by the Liberals
Should be:
It was her myopic, judgmental, perceived racism that made her feel like an outcast.
Maybe her profs and fellow students didn't like her simply because:
Choose one or more:
That’s a maybe..lol. Trust me...racism does exist and it may not have been all in her head. We don’t know if she was the way she is now in College. I actually would love to get clarification on what kind of racism she felt was thrown her way. It may have been the patronizing and condescending attitude that some people give to people they think are not as good as them. Racism doesn’t just involve burning crosses and racial epitaphs. I think Clarence Thomas also touches on this but in a different way. When he talks about how Affirmative Action takes away from his Law Degree. Can’t remember the exact quote but he says something to the effect that when he looks at it it’s only worth the paper it’s printed on. AA tells minorities that they are not good enough to compete with Whites. I wouldn’t say this is racism but I’ve seen plenty of people when mad at something Colin Powell says or does immediately make the AA argument. As long as liberalism has a say in politics people will never be judged by the content of their character. Never!!
Just my humble opinion..
Here ya go. Found it with Google in about 30 seconds. Have fun!
I just don’t care that much about Michelle Obama. I don’t.
I won’t vote for her husband.
I was reported as racist to HR during the OJ Simpson trial for telling a minority co-worker that I was certain OJ was guilty. The poor widdle "vitim" felt bad about my opinion about Simpson because he is a minority and I am in an unprotected class: white, Christian, heterosexual male.
The sad fact is, racism is in the eye of the beholder and protected groups use the race card willy-nilly to bludgeon those that disagree with them.
Ouch. “bludgeon those that” should be “bludgeon those who.” Apology to 50’s mom.
I’m sorry that you had to deal with that during the OJ trial. The sad thing is that this country can not have a truly honest dialog regarding race because of the issues that you have listed. Racism is always going to exist but it comes down to how the person deals with it. I got called the “N” word when I was 28 visiting a friend in Florida. I was standing with my friends and some people outside and these guys in a car drove by and yelled it out. My white friend apologized for it and I told her ..why..you didn’t say it...they did. I never let it get in the way of life. It happened and I moved on. Liberalism doesn’t allow people to move on because it has to stay in power by dividing the races. My fear is that it is going to cause reactionary racism. White males (homosexual and democratic seem to be exempt to the bashing) are going to get tired of being the punching bags. Gotta head off to work but if you don’t mind I’ll PM you and get your perspective. I’m curious!!
I wasn't angry at the loser, who filed the false report, just because he is a minority nor has it harmed my relationship with other minority co-workers here. I am angry at the race-card playing where there wasn't any evidence.
My HR rep (who happens to be African-American) told the reporter to stop making false reports. It seems I'm not the only one who has been smacked unfairly with the "racist" label. I don't know what would have happened had there not been another honest, protected minority co-worker who happened to have overheard the original conversation about OJ.
PM away.
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