Posted on 02/22/2008 9:25:40 PM PST by 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has been the subject of much conjecture on the blogosphere and elsewhere in recent weeks, as it has been "temporarily withdrawn" from Princeton's library until after this year's presidential election in November.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."
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
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.
“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.
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!
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!
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.
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
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."
Great line.
[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.
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!
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
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!!
"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. :')
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