Dock at Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard
Posted on 08/24/2009 4:47:23 PM PDT by SmithL
Are you ready? Here's a quick lesson in African American social history. For more than a century, the East Coast black elite, including prominent artists, intellectuals and financially secure professionals, has gathered on the island of Martha's Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts, to relax and spend time with one another. By tradition, other ethnic groups do the same, and while the groups mingle socially, they largely live in segregated communities on the island. The black community has always summered near the town of Oak Bluffs, on the Island's northern coast.
The idea that rich, smart, black people get together to entertain each other (there is little else to do there) has intrigued the media lately. Why the new focus? Well, this week, the First Family will join that tradition, another socially-prominent, African American family escaping the summer heat on the beaches of the Vineyard.
When the news broke, the writer Toure penned an article for New York Magazine about this annual gathering of the clan, focusing on its elite status (generational ownership of homes on the island) and the myriad criteria for being welcomed there, especially during the popular Labor Day weekend.
While trying to unlock the mystery of the island's attractions and assess the Vineyard's suitability as a vacation spot for our new First Family, one anonymous, snobby, long-time islander is reported to have questioned Michelle Obama's place in the group's hierarchy, referring to the First Lady as just a "ghetto girl", one who did not belong in the august company of the regulars.
Needless to say, this quote has sent shock waves around the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
blacks-I-have-met-while-yachting bump.
Elitism is color blind.
Just like highly segregated San Francisco, The 'rats self-segregate wherever they go, and accuse everyone else of being bigoted.
They’re playing the RACE CARD again!
“Accuse others of what you do.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
What a filthy shore line.
>>Elitism is color blind. <<
Post of the Day!
When stationed at MCAS Iwakuni, our squadron OpsO had saying I always thought was funny - and seems vaguely apprpriate here:
SAYONARA, BUCKWHEAT!
Sounds like a mental illness. Sheesh!
So it’s a secret segregated vacation?
I don’t care if Obama meets Tiger or Teddie ... I want to know if Obama is meeting up with Skip Gates who is in MV at the same time.
Lenin stole that line from Satan.
The elite up there think everyone else is either ghetto or trailer trash.
Just like the Hamptons btw, only with a modicum less of crass.
Or more pretense.
That’s right,
I’m a WASP, and would be greeted by those people as a leper
Oprah is worth a couple of billion...but no protests against her hoarding of wealth.....
LOL... I play on far better beaches.
On Wall Street (remember that place?) there was a saying. Well, there were a lot of sayings. One was, "money always returns to its rightful owners."
Standard southern New England shoreline. Maine's coast is mostly rocks.
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