Posted on 08/24/2009 4:47:23 PM PDT by SmithL
Are you ready? Here's a quick lesson in African American social history. For more than a century, the East Coast black elite, including prominent artists, intellectuals and financially secure professionals, has gathered on the island of Martha's Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts, to relax and spend time with one another. By tradition, other ethnic groups do the same, and while the groups mingle socially, they largely live in segregated communities on the island. The black community has always summered near the town of Oak Bluffs, on the Island's northern coast.
The idea that rich, smart, black people get together to entertain each other (there is little else to do there) has intrigued the media lately. Why the new focus? Well, this week, the First Family will join that tradition, another socially-prominent, African American family escaping the summer heat on the beaches of the Vineyard.
When the news broke, the writer Toure penned an article for New York Magazine about this annual gathering of the clan, focusing on its elite status (generational ownership of homes on the island) and the myriad criteria for being welcomed there, especially during the popular Labor Day weekend.
While trying to unlock the mystery of the island's attractions and assess the Vineyard's suitability as a vacation spot for our new First Family, one anonymous, snobby, long-time islander is reported to have questioned Michelle Obama's place in the group's hierarchy, referring to the First Lady as just a "ghetto girl", one who did not belong in the august company of the regulars.
Needless to say, this quote has sent shock waves around the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
She’s not a ghetto girl, that all campaign mythology, he dad was solidly middle class.
Nantucketers give others lessons in insular arrogance. BTW, the premier Nantucket name is Starbuck.
Very, very old: pupils in a Nantucket school were asked to write an essay about Benito Mussolini. An A+ was awarded to the paper that began, “Mussolini is an off-islander.”
Anyway, elites are elites except here in South Carolina the black aristocracy is usually referred to as the “lightskinned elite”.
Amen! These people are “white trash”, low rent jackasses, which I never knew could be half black.
Accuse others of what you do. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Lenin stole that line from Satan.
Great observation.
Oh, I never knew that. I have only seen one east coast shore and that was in New Jersey, very clean.
I am from southern California, clean beaches (sands) except for the tar and oil.
I could of swore that was a picture of the little ones playing in the surf until I broke out the reading glasses :-0
Frida Kahlo? Emma Goldman? Angela Davis? Anita Hill? I spit on all of them. If this is the sort of garbage we are meant to emulate, this is disgusting.
Golda Meier, Molly Pitcher, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman I can admire, though I could never aspire to their courage.
‘...money always returns to its rightful owners.’
Until the government gloms onto it - then say, ‘Good-bye, Charlie.’
So that’s where Looter Guy ended up.
You really sure those are all “ghetto girls?”
“...that was in New Jersey, very clean.”
Well thank you for saying something nice about New Jersey, a compliment to our “shore” from a Californian is very flattering.
Thats where the laugh really is. I do not think these black elites are genuine Americans. They do not sound much like it.
” By tradition, other ethnic groups do the same, and while the groups mingle socially, they largely live in segregated communities on the island. The black community has always summered near the town of Oak Bluffs, on the Island’s northern coast.”
A few weeks after Barry WeeWeed was inaugurated,
Eric “ I Love Black Panthers with Guns,but, not CIA Agents with Guns “ Holder went to the DOJ and delivered a finger pointing diatribe on race relations.
He called people who work with other races, but,
spend their week ends and down time with their own race “ cowards.”
He should be in Oak Bluffs driving around with a bullhorn calling Professor Gates and Oprah and James Ogletree and Valerie Jarrett “ cowards.”
Unless he’s also there and then it’s ok.
Prettiest beaches I’ve ever seen are the Gulf Coast beaches in the Florida panhandle and Alabama. Beautiful sugar white sand.
OH MY GOSH, THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT.
Doesn’t Prof Skippy Gates have a place there?
Saw a brief clip on TV with the locals welcoming the arrival of the Obamas. Looked like a mostly Black crowd. I was confused, this explains it....I thought they had been bused in for the cameras.
Blacks “made it” a long time ago. The prevalence of self imposed segregation, pretentiousness and elitism are testament.
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