Michelle Obama thesis was on racial divide - full text available

Politico.com ^ | 2/22/2008 | Jeffrey Ressner

[GVnana]

Michelle Obama thesis was on racial divide

By: Jeffrey Ressner
Feb 22, 2008 04:20 PM EST
Updated: February 22, 2008 08:07 PM EST

Michelle Obama's senior year thesis at Princeton University, obtained from the campaign by Politico, shows a document written by a young woman grappling with a society in which a black Princeton alumnus might only be allowed to remain "on the periphery." Read the full thesis here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

"My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before," the future Mrs. Obama wrote in her thesis introduction. "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. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second."

The thesis, titled "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community" and written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, in 1985, has been the subject of much conjecture on the blogosphere and elsewhere in recent weeks, as it has been "temporarily withdrawn" from Princeton's library until after this year's presidential election in November. Some of the material has been written about previously, however, including a story last year in the Newark Star Ledger.

Obama writes that the path she chose by attending Princeton would likely lead to her "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."

[GVnana]

Earlier this week, commentator Jonah Goldberg remarked on National Review Online, "A reader in the know informs me that Michelle Obama's thesis ... is unavailable until Nov. 5, 2008, at the Princeton library. I wonder why."

Not anymore. He he he.

Part 1
http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_1-251.pdf

Part 2
http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_26-501.pdf

Part 3
http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_51-751.pdf

Part 4
http://dyn.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_76-981.pdf

[Travis McGee]

What a shock. The narcissist did her thesis on herself and race.

How original. Yawn. Did she major in political correctness?

[littlehouse36]

I knew it!

Thank goodness it is only February.

Good job, Politico.

[Travis McGee]

“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.”

I guess taking a few 200K+/year do-nothing jobs helped her to get over never becoming a full participant.

[GVnana]

Minor in African American Studies

[Fred Nerks]

great find!

[littlehouse36]

Friendly links:

Part 1
http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_1-251.pdf

Part 2
http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_26-501.pdf

Part 3
http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_51-751.pdf

Part 4
http://dyn.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_76-981.pdf

[ProtectOurFreedom]

MASSIVE chip on her shoulder from “the man” keeping her down. This is the last person in the world who should be anywhere near the White House. Except for her husband and the Clintons.

[Senator Goldwater]

Cindy McCain’s thesis was more succinct:

She’s ALWAYS been proud of her country.

[squidly]

To the credit of the Obama campaign (that’s a phrase I’ve never written or said before), it was they who made the decision to release the thesis.

[irishjuggler]

This poorly written garbage makes the cut at Princeton? My high school English teacher would have given this paper a C-.

[GVnana]

MASSIVE chip on her shoulder from “the man” keeping her down

Yep.

[BARLF]

What was the song Merle Haggard used to sing?

"When you're running down my country you're walking on the fighten side of me"

[The_Macallan]

Travis McGee wrote:
What a shock. The narcissist did her thesis on herself and race. How original.

[hole_n_one]

Good job, Politico.

I don't see why Politico.com or anybody else should be given any special recognition for the release of M. Obama's spewage.

A news organization asked and the Obama camp complied with the request.

It's not the Pentagon Papers.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

it was they who made the decision to release the thesis

In a Friday night news dump.

The MSM will never touch this story.

[ncalburt]

Do you work directly for the Osama campaign or a unpaid operative?
Osama and Michele are just wonderful according to you.
These Two America haters with a big plan for America.

[SOSUSA]

I have never watched Obama before, but last night I watched the debate and I have to tell you, I have never seen a more arrogant, vacuous candidate in my life. At least, with Clinton, he did not stick to phrases that he constantly repeated when he could not come up with an answer.

My conclusion: Obama will be easy to roll!

[VeniVidiVici]

Only goes to show she should have gone to a black school to get in touch with her blackness.

Interesting a liberal, rich, majority white school would increase her race apartheid rather than blurring the lines as such schools claim to do.

[ncalburt]

Lets see making excuses for a radical socialist?
Let me guess who your supporting ?