Posted on 06/30/2009 11:40:09 AM PDT by lewisglad
The word is out that the Obamas will be spending part of their summer vacation in Martha's Vineyard. "Many blacks from Oak Bluffs are elated that the Only One-in-Chief may be joining them. "People are going to lose their minds!" Tonya Lewis Lee says.
At the same time, there's also a bit of wariness among the wealthiest ones, an uncertainty whether Obama will affirm them. "Obama is more a man of the people," says a Vineyarder who's part of black high society. "He doesn't seem to identify with affluent black people. His wife definitely doesn't; she is basically a ghetto girl."
"That's what she says--I'm just being sociological. She grew up in the same place Jennifer Hudson did. She hasn't reached out to the social community of Washington, and people are waiting to see what they'll do about that." (New Yorker Magazine)
To call a Harvard lawyer a "ghetto girl" is absolutely ludicrous.
The dynamics of black society is very difficult to understand. We are probably the only race that has prejudices against other members of our own race. This anonymous member of the black elite simply said was what is said among her group.
If Mrs. Obama were light-skinned with hazel eyes maybe she might be a little more tolerable, even though she was raised on the wrong side of the track.
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Tahitians are not real fond of the French (understatement of the year)....that is one thing I learned in my travels as well! ;)
Nor do I think it's fair to use the term "redneck" as interchangeable with "low IQ, slovenly, filthy, inbred ignorant white people." The term originated in Scotland as a taunt by Anglicans to refer to Presbyterian ministers, who wore a red collar with their black robes. it migrated here with the Scots-Irish peoples in the early 1800s and became generalized to Scots-Irish as a group by the self-regarding English planter aristocracy. Only a very small percentage of whites actually owned slaves and the cotton and tobacco industries that used slave labor. Most of the whites were small farmers, sharecroppers and merchants.
After the Civil War, the entire Confederacy was occupied (its only powerful industries taken over by northern owners, sucking profits out) by Northern political and economic powers to keep it from "rising" again to the point of secession, throwing the white farmers into a poverty scarcely distinguishable from their free black neighbors, that was carried forward nearly a century until the aftermath of WWII. Characterizing these white victims of northern aggression as lazy, slovenly, et cetera, when they were primarily concerned with self-sufficiency was part of the progressive northern elites' demonization of their enemy. This was one of the great losses of Lincoln's death: it is widely speculated that he would have been far kinder to the common man after the Civil War than was Grant or the other architects of Reconstruction.
None of this is a justification for slavery or Jim Crow. it's just that the Scots-Irish working poor whites of the south went from being used by English Virginia planter elites to being used by the Army of the Confederacy to being used by the North, with barely a moment to spare. They are only since the past three decades able to rebuild their economies around Atlanta, Richmond, Research Triangle and a few other spots.
Just one more historical note: the term "cracker" originated in Irish and Scots Gaelic as the word "craik", which means to talk or shoot the breeze, or the act of being a big talker. This word, too, migrated in the early 1800s and was transmogrified into "cracker" as a way to taunt those who also spoke Gaelic as opposed to the elites' higher-regarded English. You can still hear this word in Ireland and Scotland today -- I just heard it recently in a pub scene in the 1990s in the Irish soap opera Ballykissangel which is often on PBS.
Beckwith! That's awesome! Congratulations!
Anybody remember the movie “The Inkwell” ?
LOL!! I heard that one in Ireland from the proprietor of the last Bed'n'Breakfast that still had a room open on New Year's Even when we blew into town -- a Lysol special! She didn't want to be thought of as a tinker....
Tinkers in Ireland were a gypsy-like group of poor white nomads who lived in wagons and roamed from town to town sharpening knives, selling goods stolen from other locations, etc. Lots of stories about the tinkers....
IRISH TINKERS: AN ITINERANT POPULATION IN TRANSITION
PATRIN: The Travellers of Ireland
I think it goes to show what Michelle's handlers should be doing for her but are not. Jennifer looks gorgeous when she is fully "done." Michelle, not so much.
The newly hired Black Guard, not a bad guy, asked a friend of mine who was that CRACKER looking, MF, bad words, meaning me walking through. I think that we are a genotype.
The newly hired Black Guard, not a bad guy, asked a friend of mine who was that CRACKER looking MF, bad words, meaning me, walking through. I think that we are a genotype.
Sadly, I'm just the opposite. When she started out, I really admired how much she accomplished and how she crossed over to white people as well as blacks. She has really become a vain parody of herself in the past decade. I wish she would stop her show and take a long introspection, then do fewer things of higher quality. But given her near-renunciation of Jesus (she, too, was involved with Rev. Wright) and self-regard as a spiritual leader, she may never make it back to reality. It's a shame.
Yes, the word “cracker” has come to mean a low-class southern white as part of the long historical process described above. But it didn’t start out that way, and isn’t used that way in its country of origin.
WHAT???????????? Did you forget the sarcasm tag? EWWWWWWWWWWWW he is nasty.
My Daughter in Law is white trash from Alabama according to certain people, ridge runners. the United States would be a lot smaller with out us.
However, if you’re dark-skinned, if your hair is nappy, if your eyes are dark brown, if your lips and nose are broad, no amount of polish, no amount of education or sophistication is going to ease your entry into black high society. Doesn’t matter how pretty you are, or how much money you have, you’ll always be “ghetto” to these people, simply because of the shade of your skin.
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I disagree with your statement and find it racist and false. It has to do with the fact that Michelle is a bi*ch. She has no class. She wears hideous clothes that are too small most of the time and don’t match. She wears shoes that don’t go with her outfit. She exits a car like a football player tumbling out. She crosses her legs like a man. She stand and walks like a man. She has no poise or grace and that’s why they call her ghetto.
That’s your choice. So avoid these threads. After 8 years of them bashing Bush and Lara and calling Bush chimpy for 8 years, I’m not giving them a free pas. As long as she continues to dress like a clown and has the grace of a linebacker I will make sure to point it out.
She should wear those aqua combat boots with that Donna Reed from hell apron dress.
Who compared this fashion disaster with Jackie O? Oh my.
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