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Michelle Obama once teased for talking ‘like a white girl’
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 3/20/09 | Lynn Sweet

Posted on 03/20/2009 7:08:33 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun

WASHINGTON -- For her own Women's History Month assignment, first lady Michelle Obama visited Anacostia High School, on the poor side of town, where on Thursday she surprised a group of students. One of her goals is to demystify the White House and make it more accessible to the people who live here.

Mrs. Obama told the youngsters she felt isolated from an institution in her own community when she was growing up and that she suspected they may view the White House and the Capitol the way she saw the University of Chicago as a young girl -- a place for other people. She shared her story of how she was taunted for talking "like a white girl."

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To: autumnraine

have you seen carlton dance yet? It’s hysterical...but it’s suppose to be insinuating that white people can’t dance,...similar to the white people can’t play bball etc..

frankly, I’ve never seen any white person dance like carlton unless they are older than 50 and really really drunk at a wedding. :)


61 posted on 03/20/2009 7:51:33 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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To: LottieDah

No, but it sounds like an interesting book. I enjoyed a book that was written in the 60’s, I think it was called “black like me”...in which a white reporter goes under cover in the black world. He shaved his head, took skin darkening pills, used yes....shoe polish to make himself look black so he could understand their lifestyle. It’s well worth the read..... regardless of your political stance.


62 posted on 03/20/2009 7:54:34 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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To: angcat

This white girl would like to smack the crap out you Mrs. Hussein
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LOL..my sentiments also. I’d pay money for that.


63 posted on 03/20/2009 7:55:02 AM PDT by patriot08
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

Yeah, the dance is funny. And Eddie Murphy had it down pat when he mimicked how white people dance (like Carlton) and that’s pretty much it. We have about one move. LOL!

I guess I get more offended when they mock how he talks. As if not speaking in ebonics is bad.


64 posted on 03/20/2009 7:55:27 AM PDT by autumnraine (Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson VIVA LA REVOLUTION!)
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To: anniegetyourgun

So I guess she means that she was criticized for speaking clear, understandable English? Well sheeeet. Whut up wi dat?


65 posted on 03/20/2009 7:57:39 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: Blue Turtle

Tired of the race conversation....we have a black president...give it a rest.
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You love it that Obongo has stolen the White House, don’t you?
We will NOT give it a rest. Death by a thousand paper cuts...


66 posted on 03/20/2009 7:57:52 AM PDT by patriot08
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To: anniegetyourgun

Are we interested? No


67 posted on 03/20/2009 8:01:16 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: patriot08

I have no clue as to what you mean?


68 posted on 03/20/2009 8:01:56 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: anniegetyourgun

If talking “white” means talking like a reasonably educated person, then I haven’t had a black friend who didn’t talk “white”.


69 posted on 03/20/2009 8:02:38 AM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: NoKoolAidforMe
"...So speaking in a grammatically and phonetically correct manner is to speak like a white person? What am I missing here?..."

You are not misunderstanding or missing anything......there is slang etc in the white culture too. It's just another way to create racial dividing lines...... by pointing it out in the news.

70 posted on 03/20/2009 8:03:16 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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To: autumnraine

The irony of that is Will Smith’s rap music was mocked by many rappers for not showing the “black experience”. He said he was black and it was his experience.


71 posted on 03/20/2009 8:05:14 AM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: Blue Turtle

death by a thousand cuts. Every little piece of legislation, every slam of this administration in the media, every tea party...pokes this narcissistic poser with a stick


72 posted on 03/20/2009 8:08:18 AM PDT by patriot08
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To: SoKatt
You don't talk to kids about negative concepts that make racism acceptable; you foster positive development towards education; Lord help America with this first family.

Wifey and I taught at an Indian Village here in Alaska once. All day long, all I heard was dirty White People, no good White People, on and on. I'd tell the kids there was no place for racism in todays world, just not acceptable for America's future, ect ect. Finally, I lost it one day and told the Indians they were a 1000 years behind us White People and if we'd have given the Russians another 50 years, there wouldn't an Indian left in Alaska today. Only the truth, they come unglued; probably because they knew it was the truth. They got over it and quickly went back to hatin White People, ha ha; some things never change I guess. The way DC schools are going, I figure they'll finally catch it too.

73 posted on 03/20/2009 8:08:55 AM PDT by Eska
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To: patriot08

oh ok..I think the foundation is beginning to crumble. And we are only 2 months in.


74 posted on 03/20/2009 8:09:40 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: autumnraine

Remember, they seriously tried to make it okay to teach ebonics in schools in california. At least I think it was california...in the 90’s?

White people can dance, they have the moves. The disco days are over. What does frustrate me to all end is the refusual to admonish a certain segment of black society for making fun of white people. If they don’t like it done to them, they need to stop doing it to us..on tv, in the movies and in the news. Sick of it!!


75 posted on 03/20/2009 8:13:03 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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To: Blue Turtle

I agree, the president’s race has nothing to do with anything. Being black will not help him fix the economy or defeat terrorists. But this was the first lady, and first ladies traditionally take up causes that are less partisan and closer to home: literacy and saying no to drugs, for example. In this case, she was talking to a bunch of predominantly black school kids from a poor part of Washington D.C. If she can show them that it’s okay for a black kid to speak proper English and study hard, that’s all to the good.


76 posted on 03/20/2009 8:17:09 AM PDT by FelixFelicis (When can we *change* back? [Get yer bumper sticker at www.cafepress.com/deepright!])
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To: GatorGirl
God forbid someone “talks like a white”. Can you imagine the screams of outrage had Laura Bush complained of being teased for “talking like a black girl”?

I remember Hillary Clinton talking like a black girl. It wasn't funny.

77 posted on 03/20/2009 8:20:40 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: sportutegrl

is that true? or does it relate to clinton being the first black president?


78 posted on 03/20/2009 8:21:53 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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To: FelixFelicis

So if someone says that you “talk like a black girl”...is that racist?


79 posted on 03/20/2009 8:23:42 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: beaversmom

yeah. well so what about her arms. Mine look better and if i knew how to post pics I’d prove it.


80 posted on 03/20/2009 8:24:13 AM PDT by murrie (For God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son..........)
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