Dan, look even further into Inkwell. As in Inkwell Beach at Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard. This is where Obama was planning on spending some of his summer holidays. He may no longer be doing so. The history of this summer community is quite rich -literally. I had a friend in college days who was a member of one of the original families of this colony. As she explained it to me, they are the descendents of the “token black” system put in place by the Ivy Leagues after the Civil War. Each class year of each Ivy had a “token black” student come up from the South (by train) and all expenses were paid for his education plus he was given an allowance that equal his peers. My friend’s ancestor was, like her, at Brown. He didn’t he bring a suitcase with him. Her whole family had either gone to Brown or Harvard -many on this program. I think the AME Church is part of this as well. This colony is beyond elite. These folks are highly intelligent, extremely cultured, and incredibly successful. A book chronicling their lifestyles has been written about them - they even have their own debutante system:
http://www.amazon.com/Our-Kind-People-Inside-Americas/dp/0060984384
This life is far different than the average American middle class African American (or White) family experience and in another world from the hellish experience of the inner city African American family. To think Americans like Gates and his fellow Inkwells are content to summer in Martha’s Vineyard with a 68% illiteracy rate among African American 3rd graders or that 80%+ of the African American babies born in Detroit are illegitimate and born below the poverty line and living a quality of life you wouldn’t want subject an animal to is monstrous. They, better than any other Americans, understand the value of a real education. Their lives are a testament to what a good education combined with freedom and free enterprise can do for an individual in America.
More on Inkwell Beach - find out if the name is a nod to their educations as I suspect it is:
http://www.mvheritagetrail.org/oakbluffs.html
Oh, and when you learn about Inkwell, you understand what a phony race pimp Gates is. Along with Cornell West.
Posted by: Mrs. Peperium | Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 10:28 AM
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His little charity sounds about as incestuous as morgan freeman and his grandaughter.
Very interesting post and links. Thank you.