Michelle Obama Masters Thesis, what do you think?

urbanXJ · 02-13-2009, 05:06 PM

Have you read her thesis?

I don't think she is doing much to get skin color out of the picture.

"My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before," the future Mrs. Obama wrote in her thesis introduction. "I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8642.html
http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_M...esis_1-251.pdf
http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_M...sis_26-501.pdf
http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_M...sis_51-751.pdf
http://dyn.politico.com/pdf/080222_M...sis_76-981.pdf

ormand · 02-13-2009, 05:08 PM

How old was she when she wrote it? Who isn't thinking about there skin color at that age?

lol have you ever been to princeton? in the 1970s/80s?

Falkryte · 02-13-2009, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by ormand

How old was she when she wrote it? Who isn't thinking about there skin color at that age?

lol have you ever been to princeton? in the 1970s/80s?

True...

DanteLee · 02-13-2009, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ormand

How old was she when she wrote it? Who isn't thinking about there skin color at that age?

lol have you ever been to princeton? in the 1970s/80s?

yeh i think hes thinkin in the now instead of then when skin color was more of a subject at predominantly white schools such as princeton

urbanXJ · 02-13-2009, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by DanteLee

yeh i think hes thinkin in the now instead of then when skin color was more of a subject at predominantly white schools such as princeton

I am simply trying to give you folks a chance to enlighten yourself on some history of the Firstlady.

ormand · 02-13-2009, 05:22 PM

Atleast she was in school. Bush was using cocaine and getting slammed on alcohol at the time lol. Just saying.

urbanXJ · 02-13-2009, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by ormand

Atleast she was in school. Bush was using cocaine and getting slammed on alcohol at the time lol. Just saying.

, havn't our last 3 presidents been coke users.

Bush, Clinton, Obama.

WTF is up with that?

Candy · 02-13-2009, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by ormand

Atleast she was in school. Bush was using cocaine and getting slammed on alcohol at the time lol. Just saying.

Candy · 02-13-2009, 05:27 PM

My uncle who is a black homosexual during his time at Princeton, has the very same story as she....it's a "gotta be in the shoes 2 appreciate it", kinda thing.

an extremely intellectually profound thesis 2 say the least

urbanXJ · 02-13-2009, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Candy

My uncle who is was a black homosexual during his time at Princeton, has the very same story as she....it's a "gotta be in the shoes 2 appreciate it", kinda thing.

an extremely intellectually profound thesis 2 say the least

Did he get a masters degree by writing about his black homosexualality?

MadseasoN · 02-13-2009, 05:56 PM

Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second.

Her thesis says a lot about her. It sounds to me that she thinks of herself as black first and a student second, yet integration is her goal? It's contradictory at best. She makes plenty of unfounded assumptions also.

In the words of Katt Williams:
"It's called SELF ESTEEM! It's esteem of your mothaeffin' self. How am I gonna eff up how you feel about you?"

txferrari · 02-13-2009, 05:59 PM

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ormand Deelish! Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: SE Feedback Rating: (5) Posts: 8,833 Experience: 3 years Trackdays: 9 Bike(s): 2009 Ninja 650r Total Mileage: 42,000	Atleast she was in school. Bush was using cocaine and getting slammed on alcohol at the time lol. Just saying.
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MadseasoN Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: 77002 Feedback Rating: (1) Posts: 5,673 Experience: 10+ years Trackdays: 10+	Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second. Her thesis says a lot about her. It sounds to me that she thinks of herself as black first and a student second, yet integration is her goal? It's contradictory at best. She makes plenty of unfounded assumptions also. In the words of Katt Williams: "It's called SELF ESTEEM! It's esteem of your mothaeffin' self. How am I gonna eff up how you feel about you?"