Michelle Obama and Stokely Carmichael on Collective White Guilt

American Thinker ^ | January 16, 2012 | M. Catharine Evans

[neverdem]

Jodi Kantor launched a pre-election, pre-emptive biography about the first couple last week. The New York Times reporter has been covering the human interest side of the Obama family since 2007. Kantor's earlier articles focused on the president's love of basketball, Michelle's family tree, and Barack's "search for faith." Now she's written The Obamas, a sleight-of-hand book that has Michelle getting all of the attention while her husband makes unconstitutional recess appointments. In response to Kantor's come-on, the first lady did her part, hitting...

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But luckily for anybody still interested, Michelle's "righteous indignation" created an opening to ask if Juan Williams was right back in 2009. The Fox contributor caught flak for saying that "Michelle Obama has this Stokely Carmichael-in-a-designer dress thing going on."...

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If her life is sometimes unbearable, even with the lavish vacations, parties, and personal staff catering to her every need, the roots of Michelle's obvious discontent may be found in the psychic strain of reluctantly assimilating into the dreaded dominant culture. According to Kantor, in the early '90s, Mrs. Obama felt "distressed" by the multi-generational "white Irish Catholics" who "locked up power in Illinois." For Mrs. Obama, it must have been Princeton all over again. Her husband may have summed up the source of his wife's frustration in the 1995 book Dreams from My Father:

The minority assimilated into the dominant culture, not the other way around. Only white culture could be neutral and objective. Only white culture could be nonracial, willing to adopt the occasional exotic into its ranks. Only white culture had individuals. And we, the half-breeds and the college-degreed, take a survey of the situation and think to ourselves, Why should we get lumped in with the losers if we don't have to? [Dreams from My Father, pg. 75]...

[Cincinna]

Thanks, neverdem
Yeah, it’s really rough getting to go to Princetin as an affirmative action on a scholarship. Tough to live in such a beautiful historic Tiwn and have access to a great university.
Barry’s statement says it all: what an opportunist!

[Cincinna]

Thanks, neverdem
Yeah, it’s really rough getting to go to Princetin as an affirmative action on a scholarship. Tough to live in such a beautiful historic Tiwn and have access to a great university.
Barry’s statement says it all: what an opportunist!
They really do deserve each other.

[freekitty]

Do these guys ever stop lying?

[derllak]

Only when their lips aren’t moving.

[ronnie raygun]

Affirmative action, nuff sed! We know know affirmative action breeds arrogance

[Jacquerie]

I just checked my personal White Guilt Bank Account. Balance: $0.

[BilLies]

360,000 White Northern American military died and hundreds of thousands were wounded and/or disabled between 1861 and 1865 to carry out the task of freeing Michelles’s and Stokely’s Black ancestors from slavery.
The thanks to these WHITE men and their suffering families will be voiced loudly and clearly by all the loyal Obamites every day, from every venue, by every Black during this Black History Month...NOT>

[Wildbill22]

LOL. I like that one.