Affirmative Action’s nasty questions
Michelle Obama thesis was on racial divide
Michelle Obama’s senior year thesis at Princeton University, obtained from the campaign by Politico, shows a document written by a young woman grappling with a society in which a black Princeton alumnus might only be allowed to remain “on the periphery.” Read the full thesis here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
“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.”
[snip]
Of course, she feels this way; one becomes infected with this reaction as a product of Affirmative Action. Facilitating this along is the estimation of the “helped” by the Progs. Admittance without their beneficence is unfathomable, so they must be inferior.
Whether or not she actually necessitated AA is not in debate here, I have no personal information speaking to the subject. In the Progressive world however, presumption is a claret mark.
Affirmative Action is the yellow star in Germany, a categorization; Fascists insist on taxonomy.
Earlier this week, commentator Jonah Goldberg remarked on National Review Online, “A reader in the know informs me that Michelle Obama’s thesis … is unavailable until Nov. 5, 2008, at the Princeton library. [snip]
Care to speculate why?
Archived in: Affirmative Action, Fascism, Michelle Obama, ProgressivesFebruary 23, 2008 at 7:42 am | Trackback
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I lived in the South during the last years of segregation, I remember the Civil Rights years, and performed the necessary self-examination to comprehend the states of mind that had to change. I learned a lot that wouldn’t have been learned without American activism and self-criticism.
Now, forty years later, I don’t think “we” can do any more than we’ve done. The residual self-separation and identity that Ms. Obama claims is her issue, not mine. If she’s black first, then she’s certainly not morally superior to the white-as-only-reality of the old America. Had she enough charitable self-awareness, she might also learn something from it and stop the bitching and wailing about her condition. I, for one, am sick to death of black self-assertion and narcissism.
de Toqueville observed, 150 years ago, that the future of this rugged democracy will turn upon the resolution of our racial differences. He knew it then, we knew if a century ago, fifty years ago and today. I’ve done all I can do. Ms. Obama needs to gather all her privileges together in one corner of her empty self-regarding head, take a look at them, and finally…God, finally, get her sorry priorities straight.