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How Princeton shaped Michelle Obama's views

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/o ... 01.article

For Obama, who graduated with honors with a degree in sociology and a minor in African-American studies, predominantly white Princeton made her, for the first time, self-conscious about her race, says Mundy.

"My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my Blackness than ever before," Obama wrote in her thesis. "I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my White professors and classmates may try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus, as if I really don't belong. ... It often seems as if, to them, I will always be Black first and a student second."

Mundy says Obama was anticipating that life would put "her further into a white-dominated culture, and did not look forward to it."

Princeton "will likely lead to my 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," Obama wrote.

Obama grew up speaking, as she put it, "two languages.'' In order not to alienate some of her childhood friends, she said she had to be "smart without acting smart.''

Good thing she was wrong about that,huh loser?

Now she's soon to be First Lady and her husband,the most powerful man in the world.

Sorry but no Bush can't take the White House back to Crawford with him.

Actually, that's a picture of the White House AFTER it's been community organized......

If you look closely at the techniques you fall under about all 10 of those criteria.

On the contrary, little girl. Born_again is far from being a troll.

If you look closely, you aren't really a troll. Just uninformed, most likely a Conservative, and you just don't know it or you're afraid to admit it.



On the other hand, it describes people such as artie and edge with uncanny accuracy.