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Michelle Obama's Victocratic Thesis
Little Green Footballs ^ | Feb. 23, 2008 | by Charles Johnson

Posted on 02/23/2008 7:57:07 AM PST by jdm

Michelle Obama’s thesis: Racial divide. Institutionalized racism.

Oh brother. 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.”

The thesis, titled “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community” and written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, in 1985, has been the subject of much conjecture on the blogosphere and elsewhere in recent weeks, as it has been “temporarily withdrawn” from Princeton’s library until after this year’s presidential election in November. Some of the material has been written about previously, however, including a story last year in the Newark Star Ledger.

Obama writes that the path she chose by attending Princeton would likely lead to her “further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant.”



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackhusseinobama; barackobama; blacktheology; chebama; cultofobama; liberalism; michelleobama; nobama; obama; racecard; racism; reparations; separatism; thesis
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1 posted on 02/23/2008 7:57:09 AM PST by jdm
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To: jdm

Both she and Barack are anti white racists.


2 posted on 02/23/2008 8:00:05 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: jdm

Poor, Poor Michelle.

Always being held down by The Man.


3 posted on 02/23/2008 8:01:03 AM PST by rock_lobsta (I Love Global Warming!)
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To: jdm

If Michelle had managed to get into Princeton without racial quotas, perhaps she wouldn’t be so full of rage.


4 posted on 02/23/2008 8:01:44 AM PST by montag813
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To: jdm

Oh my goodness! Sometimes I dont always ‘feel’ like part of the ‘in crowd’

Get over yourself honey.


5 posted on 02/23/2008 8:02:32 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: jdm

Michelle is a serious leftist, just like her husband is. This just shows it’s bone-deep.

That said, I hope to God no one ever excavates any of the stupid garbage I wrote when I was 21.


6 posted on 02/23/2008 8:02:55 AM PST by ottbmare
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To: jdm

I sure wish XM radio hadn’t stopped broadcasting Larry Elder’s show. I bet he’s having a field day with this one right now.


7 posted on 02/23/2008 8:03:05 AM PST by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: jdm

Now why would Princeton want to temporary withdraw her thesis from the library until after the election?

That has the appearance of aiding and abetting a campaign of a black, not holding a campaign back.


8 posted on 02/23/2008 8:03:48 AM PST by o_zarkman44 (No Bull in 08!)
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To: jdm; Cagey; Larry Lucido; MotleyGirl70; Gamecock; Rb ver. 2.0
“My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘blackness’ than ever before”

Elaine: "My boyfriend's black."

Waitress: "He's black?"

Elaine: "Yeah."

Darryl: "I'm black?"

Elaine: "Aren't you?"

9 posted on 02/23/2008 8:05:30 AM PST by Mr. Brightside ( Ronald Reagan Would Back McCain - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970504/posts)
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To: jdm
This should be published as an inexpensive paperback (selling for $4.95) so that millions of white Americans can read it. Most of them are probably unaware that some black Americans see themselves as victims of white racism and it would really change the country if they could read Michelle's story. They've never had a chance to be exposed to a black person's perspective before. (/sarc)

Barack's campaign is about change. Change is good. If your order at McDonald's is $4.25 and you get 75 cents back when you offer the cashier $5, that's good. That's real change.

10 posted on 02/23/2008 8:13:02 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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They’re racists.

This is WHY she is finally proud - because her husband, a BLACK man, is running for President.

11 posted on 02/23/2008 8:13:26 AM PST by nmh (Mike Huckabee the "religious" humanist that pushes socialism! (Clinton/Carter combo))
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To: jdm

Being a member of an “Afri-centric” church and embracing its “BLACK VALUE SYSTEM” for 20 years no doubt has reinforced the victim mentality.


12 posted on 02/23/2008 8:19:53 AM PST by beefree (AMERICA BLESS GOD)
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To: jdm

Michelle Obama wouldn’t have gotten into Princeton if she were white. She is one of those afirmative action types who get everything handed to them and always whine about being victims. She didn’t learn anything at Princeton so she had to write her senior thesis about the only thing she knows; complaining about being a victim of racism.


13 posted on 02/23/2008 8:19:55 AM PST by detective
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Well, I read the first part of it......

Difficult, because it’s so poorly written. Difficult , because it is so self-absorbed, so “all about me”, so “poor little me.”

Princeton is another venerable American institution in decline. I attended a mid-rank, undistinguished university. In my day, a mere 20 years before Michelle, such a sloppily-conceived, poorly written, and at times ungrammatical submission would have been rejected. I’m appalled that, in 1985, Michelle’s ramblings served as a senior thesis. At Princeton, no less. God help us.

14 posted on 02/23/2008 8:21:24 AM PST by Godwin1 (merican restaurant.)
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To: Verginius Rufus
I was wrong...if this was published, the drug companies which sell sleeping pills would sue.

It's a sociology paper and reads like one. Maybe if Michelle would authorize a translation from sociologese into English, and issue it in a "graphic novel" format, it would sell.

15 posted on 02/23/2008 8:22:05 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Godwin1
I read the first bit of it and she remarks that "only about 10%" of Princeton's students were black. At that time (early 1980s) the percentage of college-age people who had high school diplomas who were black couldn't have been much more than 10% and may have been a bit under 10%...but she still makes it sound like a grave injustice is being committed.

I will give her credit for capitalizing the word White--it seems to be more common to capitalize Black and leave "white" in lower case.

16 posted on 02/23/2008 8:26:13 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: jdm

This is a thesis? Sounds more like a blog. You’d think Princeton would require a bit more intellectual profundity (maybe it does from some).


17 posted on 02/23/2008 8:31:21 AM PST by Dionysius (Jingoism is no vice.)
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To: jdm

Just look at the current white administration. White racist Texans, and Condolezza is in one of the most important cabinet positions in the world. The Obama’s are the racists!


18 posted on 02/23/2008 8:35:07 AM PST by mefistofelerevised
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To: jdm

I see she had a hard time coming up with the minimum word count.

“In defining the concept of identification or the ability to identify with the black community, I based my definition on the premise that there is a distinctive black culture very different from white culture.”

Did she mean to say:

“My defintion of “identification” assumes a black culture distinct from white culture”


19 posted on 02/23/2008 8:35:12 AM PST by spanalot
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To: rock_lobsta

And she, like he, obviously has so many white genes. She’s obviously not going to opine on her whiteness in that segment of the society she’s in that looks down on “whiteness.” We’re not going to hear much about his “white” heritage or hers.


20 posted on 02/23/2008 8:36:25 AM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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