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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This is true, and overall, she's not an unattracive woman. She's statuesque, and would look much better if she just didn't SLUMP! I make fun of her for her horrific choices of clothing. What a fashion nightmare she can be, and it's not for lack of money. I guess she just doesn't care. She can look quite nice; there's a picture of her in a lovely simple black sheath, with a string of pearls, and her hair is swept up into a chignon. She looks lovely.
Another nice picture is of her in the White House, again, wearing a simple dress, but instead of standing up straight, she's standing with one hip cocked up, a stance that is not attractive for an official picture of the First Lady.
ROTFL! What a comparison!
The author IS clueless. They didn’t post “Irish Need Not Apply” signs for the health of the Irish.
I experienced that when we lived in NJ. I'm from MS, and one of my neighbors asked about the racism of whites against blacks. I told her I'd seen more racism there in NJ than I'd ever seen in MS. In NJ, it was Italians against Irish, Polish against Germans, and many Christians against Jews. It was just amazing to watch.
Give me a break. Why did he have plastic surgery tomake himself look white? Why did he use white men's sperm and white women to have his WHITE kids. He wanted nothing to do with being black. Michelle wants to be white so bad she can taste it. 
That’s some great historical info. I always thought the term ‘redneck’ came from the denigration of white folks, specifically men, who had to work the fields. My paternal Grandmother was a sharecropper, and her sons and daughters worked the fields along with her, just to make ends meet, since she was the sole breadwinner. So I’ve always described my Daddy as a redneck, because that’s the way he described himself. He was a proud, hardworking man, who came from that same stock.
And here I thought that Crackers were the white folks in the northern areas of FL and the southern third of GA. When Bob Graham was running for Gov. of FL, his running mate was from N. FL, and they were called the Graham-Cracker ticket. ;o)
I didn’t realize your ‘people’ were from MS!
I never saw any pictures of Michael Jackson that showed any evidence of vitiglio, and I remember him from his very first appearances with his brothers and their singing group. Of course, he could have been made up quite a bit to cover it, but I often wondered if he just said that he had it, and used it as an excuse for his lightening his skin. I don't think it had anything to do with his nose jobs.
I always felt sorry for him, because it seemed he suffered from a terrible self-image, and went through so much mutilation to make himself 'better'.
For Michael, it was easier or more desirable to go white. When I was a little girl in San Antonio, there was an older lady who went to my beauty shop who wore solid black stockings, gloves, and high collars in the heat of summer to hide her splotches of vitiligo. Another lady who went to our church wore Pan-Cake makeup over her spots.
I can't stand Joe Jackson!
What is it with MArtha’s Vineyard and Dems?
Clinton and Cankles used to go there quite a bit.
And the Dems are for the working people? Riiiiiiiiight.
Not true. She can control the way she dresses and the people she associates with. Okay, it's not her fault that her arms are extremely long but she hangs them down by her side like a gorilla. Her large derriere is not her fault but she could cover it better with the right style of dress. Argyle sweaters that would properly fit her 10 year old daughter are definitely her fault.
If you look at him even in 1984, two years before he claimed he was diagnosed, there was something wrong with him --- too much makeup, something. Even as far back as Off The Wall, in 1979, something was odd.
You're right, Suzi, he was a monstrous talent in an overly frail human package. So sad, when he had so much at his fingertips. Didn't he know how much all the little girls like me adored him, just as he was?
Of course, Joe is also dark-skinned, but he doesn't think he is.
There are few things more stupid than colorism. One brown-skinned person calling another brown-skinned person "too brown" or "not brown enough" is asinine.
Every time he sees a microphone since Michael's death, Joe pimps his new record label. What a wretch of a man.
Agree to disagree. She’s better looking au naturale than most.
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