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Michelle Obama thesis was on racial divide - full text available
Politico.com ^ | 2/22/2008 | Jeffrey Ressner

Posted on 02/22/2008 9:25:40 PM PST by GVnana

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To: Gondring; Travis McGee
Only six references for 64 pages of text. It reads like an opinion piece.

How I typed "six" when I meant to say "eight," I'll never know. Still, my point stands...this is not what I recall as Ivy-League level work in the 80s.

161 posted on 02/23/2008 1:43:54 PM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Gondring
Holy crap - this would be UNACCEPTABLE even in a high school composition class!!!

Only EIGHT references for 64 pages of "research"!??

And FOUR of her references were over 17 years old when she cited them!

And one of them as NO source information at all - only a title and author.

Talk about DUMBING-DOWN their standards just so this buhLACK woman can get her degree! Geez that's bad.


162 posted on 02/23/2008 2:57:06 PM PST by The_Macallan
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To: 9YearLurker

“I agree with you that it would have been better writing to use alumna. I’m only suggesting...”

You two. Get a room or something.


163 posted on 02/23/2008 4:08:26 PM PST by toddlintown (Michelle Obama; Teresa Heinz, minus the gin-soaked raisins.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Why is it that she felt left out, or is it that she wished she were white, or dis she want everyone to be black?

In my opinion she should have felt privilege, not rejection. Heck our family could only afford to send me to community college and then I put myself through the balance and went on and paid for my own education at Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. and suffered plenty to do it.. I never felt that I was part of the ordinary college campus because I was either studying or working or doing both at the same time.

You know what I say? I say, she needs to stop race baiting.. it's over and more blacks are in high end colleges now than ever before..If someone who is black wishes and works hard enough at anything they want to do they can do it, no matter their ethnicity... She needs to get a life now but not on the government tit! I think that by now and even then she should have had enough self confidence because of where she was and what she was going to be! Be confident in who and what you are! If you have brains use them and don't be conflicted over your color or lack their of. Jeez! MLK would be turning in his grave knowing this now after all the great strides the man accomplished in his lifetime.. She should be ashamed of her attitude!

164 posted on 02/23/2008 4:48:25 PM PST by oswegodeee (Dee ( Born and raised in the south, yummy corn bread and BBQ ))
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To: SOSUSA
"my conclusion: Obama will be easy to roll"!

I sure hoe your right. That man scares me to death!

If you look at his audience they are all 18 to 30 years old, and there are plenty of them! He has them mesmerized, he is charismatic as far as their uneducated and innocent minds are concerned, to them, he is the great savior of this country. I have a grand daughter who is now 20 years old and cannot stop talking about how great this jerk is.. I pray you are right!

165 posted on 02/23/2008 4:56:06 PM PST by oswegodeee (Dee ( Born and raised in the south, yummy corn bread and BBQ ))
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To: GVnana; GOPPachyderm; TommyDale; Inclines to the Right; madison10; Manfred the Wonder Dawg; A2J; ...
"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;

HINT MICHELLE - THEY ARE LIBERAL! The more liberal they are the MORE TWO FACED AND DISCRIMINATORY THEY ARE!

D'oh!

She sure is slow on the uptake. Years later she still hasn't gotten it.

166 posted on 02/23/2008 5:13:17 PM PST by Terriergal ("I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace," Shakespeare)
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To: Gondring

Syllogism, to difficult for you to comprehend??????? Translated: it means a crafty argument.

Possibly are you against the best qualified being selected over the lesser qualified??????????

NSNR


167 posted on 02/23/2008 6:17:38 PM PST by No Surrender No Retreat (Xin Loi My Boy!!!!)
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To: No Surrender No Retreat
Syllogism, to difficult for you to comprehend??????? Translated: it means a crafty argument.

Ah....perhaps too [sic] difficult for you to comprehend. :-)



To quote a great movie..."You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

168 posted on 02/23/2008 7:17:05 PM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: sergeantdave
I’d have a hard time writing 50,000 words about my skin.

Great line.

169 posted on 02/23/2008 7:24:30 PM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

[Sex-change ambitions? Unless you mean the innocuous mention of being a future alumnus...I don’t see what you’re seeing!]

Nor do I. Use of “Alumnus” is proper for M or F at a co-ed institution.


170 posted on 02/23/2008 8:50:35 PM PST by littlehouse36 (I miss Hillary already.)
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To: The_Macallan

Agree with your post, all of it.

I once wrote a poem about how people treated me different because I was a Catholic.

But I was in the third grade then!


171 posted on 02/23/2008 8:59:40 PM PST by littlehouse36 (I miss Hillary already.)
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To: Gondring

Opinions are in an abundance, mine comes from Webster. The mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Peruse (Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary) tenth edition, page 1194,just below the word syllepsis.

Seek and ye shall find, Ask and ye shall receive, Knock at the door of knowledge and it shall be open unto you.

Cordially,
NSNR


172 posted on 02/24/2008 5:41:25 AM PST by No Surrender No Retreat (Xin Loi My Boy!!!!)
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To: DMZFrank

Yeah but if you didn’t know who and what she was and you saw walking down the sidewalk you would think she was a...exactly!!


173 posted on 02/24/2008 10:35:03 PM PST by earl the pearl
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
"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."
Links on this topic lead to copies of the thesis, which was going to be withheld from availability. :')
174 posted on 02/28/2008 11:54:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/___________________Profile updated Tuesday, February 19, 2008)
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