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Michelle Obama Thesis Explains Presence of Rapper
american thinker ^ | 5/12/11 | M Catharine Evans

Posted on 05/12/2011 5:13:30 PM PDT by Nachum

Today, the White House defended its decision to host rapper Common despite more opposition from the New Jersey State Police. The show will go on.

But some Americans (including myself) have asked what was Michelle Obama thinking inviting a woman-bashing, cop-hating, Bush-burning, Black Panther sympathizing rapper to a poetry reading at the White House? It's a fair question since we are paying her husband's salary and housing the family until at least 2012.

Michelle has left us a written record of her feelings, thoughts and philosophy from her early days as a student at Princeton. Perhaps revisiting the First Lady's thesis may yield some answers into her obvious psychological need to expose not only her own daughters to violent-sexualized rap lyrics but other local children as well.

Mrs. Obama wrote "Princeton Educated Blacks and the Black Community" in 1985 when gangsta rap was just beginning its very lucrative rise into the mainstream. At the same time a highly rated sitcom centered on an upper middle-class African-American family living in New York City. The Cosby Show which premiered in 1984 rarely dealt with race issues or the contemporary black experience. Gangsta rap and The Cosby Show occurring around the same time surely reflected a burgeoning identity crisis for African-Americans.

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To: Lazlo in PA

Absolutely correct...I hope they get a weekend pass for Mumia and have him over for Sunday brunch after he spends the night in the Lincoln bedroom.


21 posted on 05/12/2011 6:46:47 PM PDT by Pharmboy (What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
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To: Nachum

I was surprised to discover a connection between rap music and Black Nationalism of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s. Tupac Shakur’s mother and father were both members of the Black Panthers. So was his aunt, Atta Shakur, who is the woman convicted of killing a policeman who was lionized in Common’s poem.


22 posted on 05/12/2011 6:47:02 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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To: popdonnelly

I looked up the lyrics to the song he wrote about Assata Shuker. It makes a lot of strange accusations about her time in prison and the Aryan race. I think he is a racist . But since its all the rage to rage against whitey they let it pass.


23 posted on 05/12/2011 6:55:31 PM PDT by linn37
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To: Nachum
Michelle, like any other number of African-Americans, is obviously still POd that mostly white folks got to shoot Souvern'rs and burn down their cities.

They want to get their share.

24 posted on 05/12/2011 7:03:10 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: kalee

Apparently, it was worth $315,000/year at a Chicago hopital.

The job was not filled when Moochelle left.


25 posted on 05/12/2011 7:30:20 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Eh ?)
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To: Nachum

Michelle couldn’t do law because she was such a dreadful writer. I cannot believe that she proof-read her “thesis”, which reads more like a confused diary than a scholarly work. I wrote more coherently in 7th grade.


26 posted on 05/12/2011 7:45:06 PM PDT by Nepeta
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To: Nachum
"The concept of Black Power rests on the fundamental premise: Before a group can enter the open society, it must close ranks."


27 posted on 05/12/2011 7:52:13 PM PDT by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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To: Nachum

so much anger


28 posted on 05/12/2011 8:08:06 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: Nepeta
I cannot believe that she proof-read her “thesis”..
She knew she didn't have to. One cry of racism’ and the faculty of Princeton would have wet their collective pants.Then after authoring such awful dreck she got into Law School, just like Van Jones. He admitted he went to Yale Law because he knew he could do whatever he wanted and still graduate. I imagine they both knew they could never pull their weight as lawyers, but so what? AA jobs were waiting for them.
29 posted on 05/12/2011 8:15:09 PM PDT by Old North State (Don't blame me, I voted for Pedro)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Gag. I hate how she and the MSM always bring up the “south side” as if she were raised at some huge disadvantage by wolves or gang-bangers. As I recall, her dad was a city employee, meaning the family also had Chicago-level bennies. To me, that’s squarely middle class, yet she would have us imagine she grew up picking cotton and being whipped by Whitey. And last time I checked, I wasn’t handed an affirmative action Ivy education on a silver platter. Witch.


30 posted on 05/13/2011 12:44:53 AM PDT by GnuHere
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To: LADY J

It just occurred to me how truly horrible her presentation is. She has the full force of the vast majority of the media supporting her and her husband, and yet there are still many photos and vidoes of her looking awful. They are trying to make her (and Barack) look wonderful, yet she gives them so little good to work with.


31 posted on 05/13/2011 6:21:43 PM PDT by PghBaldy
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To: kalee

it’s an *affirmative action* thesis!


32 posted on 05/17/2011 9:34:25 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Percentage of Income in CS is inversely proportionate to Mother's parenting of children)
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To: AbolishCSEU

I agree.


33 posted on 05/17/2011 1:46:26 PM PDT by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: Nachum
RULES!

Cheers!

34 posted on 05/27/2011 8:24:26 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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