Say Anything Blog

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)
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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.

“We are probably the only race that has prejudices against other members of our own race.”!!!!???

Uh yeah, ‘cause take a look at whitey’s country club and you don’t see and prejudice there, huh? Eat shit lady. Snobbery comes in all colors you asswipe.
As for “ghetto girl” .. pff, call her what ya want. I don’t care

H/T SondraK