Posted on 03/15/2008 2:16:01 PM PDT by antonia
Michelle Obama's Refined Racism
Michelle Obama and Black Separationists at Princeton
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8642.html
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Read the full thesis here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
Or here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
For months during the nominating process, Michelle Obama's graduating thesis has been under lock and key at Princeton University. The university stated suspiciously that it would be available to the public after the general election. Nobody knew why until now.
Michelle Obama's Refined Racism
The sequestering of an academic thesis was unprecedented at Princeton, a liberal university that prides itself on open access to scholarly information. Despite repeated attempts by media organizations to view the document, Obama's alma mater would provide no explanation for hiding it.
The thesis written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn, is titled Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community." You can download it here.
Politico.com received a possibly redacted copy from the Obama campaign recently. The excerpts show that Obama identifies with black militancy, utterly obsessed with race in America and her own blackness. It is a fundamentally racist document, shocking when considering that this scholarship is the product of a presidential candidate's wife at a great university.
She mourns that she will face 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."
Obama's thesis is full of paranoid claims and overtly racist feelings. She cannot accept the idea of a diverse student body working together in a melting pot. Others worry about her black militancy here.
"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 under which I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second."
Not only does she see separate black and white societies in America, but she elevates black over white in her world.
There was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black community, I was somehow obligated to this community and would utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost.
What is Michelle Obama planning to do with her future resources that will elevate black over white in America?
Most alarming is her use of the terms "separationist" and "integrationist" when describing the views of black people. She clearly identifies herself with a separationist" view of race.
By actually working with the Black lower class or within their communities as a result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desperation of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an integrationist who is ignorant to their plight."
Here is another typical passage that is uncomfortable for its poor writing, but nevertheless ominous in meaning:
Attending Princeton has probably forced [black alumni] to compete intellectually with Whites more than with Blacks and, thus, they have probably become more familiar with Whites intellectually, but in other activities they are likely to have gained familiarity with Whites if they did not spend time with Whites in other activities besides intellectual ones.
Is it no wonder that most black alumni ignored her racist questionnaire? Only 89 responded out of 400 who were asked for input.
The following passage appears to be a call to arms for affirmative action policies that could be the hallmark of an Obama administration.
"Predominately white universities like Princeton are socially and academically designed to cater to the needs of the white students comprising the bulk of their enrollments."
The conclusion of the thesis is alarming. Michelle Obama's poll of black alumni helps her understand that other black students at Princeton do not share her obsession with blackness. She laments that only 1/3 say they are more comfortable around black people than white people.
But rather than celebrate, she is horrified that black alumni identify with our common American culture more than they value the color of their skin.
"I hoped that these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the black community. However, these findings do not support this possibility."
Michelle Obama does not look into a crowd and see Americans. She sees black people and white people eternally conflicted with one another.
That is a very divisive view for a potential first lady that would do untold damage to race relations in this country in a Barack Obama administration. Michelle Obama's intellectually refined racism should give all Americans pause for deep concern.
MOST IMPORTANT -— Obama never says what statements he is against. Wright has so many statements that are appalling. Which ones are Obama against. Obama says he never heard Wright say those statements when he spent 20 years in church. Which statements had he never heard before, exactly. I think he is parsing. I think he as heard most of those statements in one form or another.
His wife has never been proud of her country before. Is Obama saying that she never heard her pastor say any discouraging words about America?
It might be a good idea, if we can just give them DC.
And with a $300K annual income she seems no happier.
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A wealthy Princeton graduate, wife of a US Senator and all she sees in the mirror is her blackness.
What she says doesn’t concern me. It’s pretty basic for academia when and where she graduated.
The bigger concern is how poorly written the thesis is. Hardly the work of someone I would want in a leadership role. And hardly indicative of someone deserving of a $300K salary, especially in a public relations role.
BTTT!
Yeah, they felt RIGHT at home with the hate spewing “minister”. THAT is why they STAYED there.
So why did she adopt a “white “ hairstyle instead of a FRo or locks?
she uses the system and then spits on it AFTER she gets what she wants.
PING!
Michelle Obama fits perfectly into the paranoid,racist Hellhole of Wright’s “church.”
What will make her happier is to get even with whitey.
We reap what we sow with policies that support affirmative action. All should be treated as equals without regard to race, creed or color. This racist woman is what we get with these idiotic policies.
Isn’t this something she wrote like 25 years ago when she was 22? Something she had to knock out to graduate?
I remember my senior thesis. Actually, I only remember I had to write one. I can’t remember anything else about it.
All this sturm und drang is stupid.
One does not write in first person when submitting a college thesis. My professor would have failed me if I submitted such a thing.
Michelle, they don't see you that way "no matter how liberal" they are, but because they are liberal. The left sees us all in terms of demographics, and not as people.
As I have said in other threads she is the most dangerous of the two!
On the one hand, she fears integration and bemoans the fact that black professionals who are Princeton alumni tend to socially assimilate with the people around them, to identify more with their fellow professionals than with their fellow blacks.
On the other hand, she rails against "white society" for keeping her as a black woman always on the "periphery," never a "full participant."
Oh, the humiliations and travails of life in the Dickensian depths of the Princeton University campus.
Go figure.
I’ve got news for Michelle Obama, her problem is with HERSELF and her own sense of inferiority, and with her imagined idea of WHAT WHITEY IS PROBABLY THINKING ABOUT HER at any given time. ALL of us wrestle with that old nemesis, inferiority feelings, no matter what color we are. If we’re white, we face all sorts of prejudice from all sorts of people. If we’re OLD and white or black, we face some degree of “ageism” - unfair, but who said life was meant to be legislated on a level playing field? You can’t legislate the hearts of men. If we’re white and aren’t dressed “right” at any given time, we may not get the degree of service at the department store that we think we should. You can’t legislate the hearts of store clerks. So, you’re black and some ignorant person called you the “n” word - which is becoming more highly unlikely these days. Instead of being proud and correcting the pronunciation of the name “NEGRO with a CAPITAL N” and telling the white trash that just called you “nigger”, Michelle and her type collapse into a ball of pain and the expected Democrat OUTRAGE. I’ve got more news for Michelle, LIFE AIN’T FAIR ALL OVER - FOR ALL OF US, NO MATTER WHAT COLOR WE ARE, AND BARACK GIVING US FREEBIES AND LEGISLATING FREE SPEECH ISN’T GOING TO FIX THE PROBLEM.
GROW UP, MICHELLE.
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