Posted on 06/30/2009 11:40:09 AM PDT by lewisglad
The word is out that the Obamas will be spending part of their summer vacation in Martha's Vineyard. "Many blacks from Oak Bluffs are elated that the Only One-in-Chief may be joining them. "People are going to lose their minds!" Tonya Lewis Lee says.
At the same time, there's also a bit of wariness among the wealthiest ones, an uncertainty whether Obama will affirm them. "Obama is more a man of the people," says a Vineyarder who's part of black high society. "He doesn't seem to identify with affluent black people. His wife definitely doesn't; she is basically a ghetto girl."
"That's what she says--I'm just being sociological. She grew up in the same place Jennifer Hudson did. She hasn't reached out to the social community of Washington, and people are waiting to see what they'll do about that." (New Yorker Magazine)
To call a Harvard lawyer a "ghetto girl" is absolutely ludicrous.
The dynamics of black society is very difficult to understand. We are probably the only race that has prejudices against other members of our own race. This anonymous member of the black elite simply said was what is said among her group.
If Mrs. Obama were light-skinned with hazel eyes maybe she might be a little more tolerable, even though she was raised on the wrong side of the track.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailyvoice.com ...
My, she has such big, beautiful...um, eyes.
Yea, eyes.
hmmm, yes, I’m sure Ted or Caroline Kennedy would extend an invitation to spend time with them at Cape Cod to a Caucasian who grew up in East Harlem and whose father worked in a factory. Nope, no class distinction or bias toward Caucasians by other Caucasians.
Don’t forget the term “shanty Irish”.
It ain’t the color of the skin, it’s the ghetto in the heart.
It is amazing what photo shop can do.
Agreed! I have a Dominican friend (raised in NYC) and he says that amongst the different islanders - Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba etc there is a definate prejudice against darker skinned individuals....and it’s worse ON the islands....
I was in Oak Bluffs last week(golfing at Farm Neck GC..awesome course). I’ve heard that Oak Bluffs has a sizeable AA population in the summer, but I’ve never seen it.....
I disagree.
We Caucasians have stereotypes, and we like to play; "Our group is better than your group".
But blacks engage in pure unadulterated hatred against each other, and against everyone else. It's an African Tribal Thing. You wouldn't understand.
Chris Rock, the black comedian, asked his black audience, "who is more prejudiced, blacks or whites?" This was followed by an uneasy silence from the audience. He then gave the very honest answer: "Black people, cause we hate black people too!" It's on one of his comedy albums, if you want to hear it.
And by the way, she IS an Affirmative Action Ghetto Girl. Her Harvard pseudo-education certainly didn't give her any class. The Obama Tribe are what middle-class blacks refer to as "Ghetto Fabulous". Hint: It's not a complement.
Most black people I know would never use the term, since it is a slur, is bigoted, and is likely to be provocative. Many white males have adopted the term, either as a dubious honorific or in its original usage, as a slur:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peckerwood
Obama’s hatred is mostlt directed against capitalism.
Not if you've been part of the elite group long enough. Sometimes people who weren't born into it are the most defensive about outsiders.
The dynamics of black society is very difficult to understand. We are probably the only race that has prejudices against other members of our own race.
It's understandable why she feels that way. But surely Queen Elizabeth and the Sex Pistols were of the same race and still had prejudices against each other.
You can also find the same thing among Jews. Alan Dershowitz is a Harvard lawyer many times over, but some established Jewish families would tear their hair out if he moved in next door. At least it was that way before celebrity triumphed over old money.
Even before the Civil War, blacks in America were terribly stratified, in several different ways. And over time, it gets worse and worse.
The original distinction began almost at the moment of leaving Africa, since slaves were from almost exclusively northwestern tribes. So the first stratification was tribal. Then, slaves were divided into the more manageable slaves for America, and the troublesome slaves, who were sent, often to be worked to death, to French Haiti.
Prior to the invention of the cotton gin, slavery in America was solely in the domain of the upper classes. A young adult male slave would cost roughly $1M in today’s money. The majority of slaves were domestic servants, and often were intended for eventual emancipation.
This created a major subdivision among blacks. Slaves vs. Freemen. In some cities, such as New Orleans, a freed slave could be an entrepreneur, and there was a black district where they could own and operate businesses.
The next subdivision was among the various blends of black and white. Half black children were Mulatto, one quarter black children were Quadroon, and one eighth black children were Octoroon.
Free Quadroon women could become mistresses to white gentlemen, and as part of the deal live well in an apartment in the black district. Such partnerships were formed at the famous Quadroon ball, where Quadroon debutantes would meet wealthy young white men.
Any children from that pairing would become “bar sinister” members of the white man’s family, and were often sent North to become educated entrepreneurs, where being an Octoroon wouldn’t matter.
The divisions among blacks in America continued.
Didn’t she play Rog’s little sister on That’s My momma?
The Talented tenth elite, the Jack & Jill kids don’t want her in their pool. This is a shot across the bow saying so.
Ain’t no greens in Cape Cod.
Lace Curtain or Shanty.
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