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...Further along in her thesis, Michelle Obama argues for the Stokely Carmichael, or Black Power position that black must first close ranks, take pride in their blackness and black value system, before entering society as a whole.
Carmichael, Malcolm X and the Black Power Movement espoused a black first doctrine. They wanted nothing less than a black nation within a nation. This was seen as the means to gain political and economic power equal to that of whites.
Michelle Obama then goes on to bemoan the separation of black studies from white studies.
The way black studies were handled by Princeton in the mid-80’s may well have been a function of how the liberal Princeton professors and administrators buying into, and promoting the values of Carmichael and the Black Power Movement.
On Page 26, Michelle Obama draws the conclusion that the more blacks interact with whites on an intellectual level, the less likely those blacks will value helping poor blacks.
Does this mean white values corrupt black values?
