Go Figure… Michelle Obama Was an #Occupier For Racial Justice While at Harvard
Posted by Jim Hoft
Christian Adams at Pajamas Media reported:In May 1988, Harvard Law students, borrowing from Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, and foreshadowing the Occupy movement of 2011, occupied the Harvard Law School’s dean’s office. The students were supporting Professor Derrick Bell’s demand that the law school hire professors on the basis of race.
One of the students “dressed in black” and occupying the dean’s office appears to be Michelle Obama (Harvard Law ’88). Here is a link to the grainy video. (lower right at about ten seconds in, wearing white Keds).
And a comment from the blogosphere:
One only has to read Michelle Obama’s senior thesis to understand her mindset. Michelle Obama is of the belief that black Americans cannot thrive in a “white” world. For her senior thesis, she sent out 400 questionaires to black Princeton graduates. Michelle wanted to prove that although well educated, the Princton grads still maintained lives that were Afro-centric. To Michelle’s surprise, she only received 90 completed questionaires, and what she learned was that black Princeton grads were not suffering from “bigotry” in the work force and that they did not put their “blackness” as a priority, but quite the opposite.
“I hoped these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that black Princeton alumin follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the black community. However, these findings do not support this possibility.”
Michelle Obama
IOW, she was surprised that the black alumni had fully integrated into the community of business associates who were also white, not feeling the racial bigotry that Michelle Obama was certain existed. Success in their chosen field had taken piority over retaining their “blackness.” Black alumni had become just like their counterparts of other races, seeking success, financial security and upward mobility in their chosen fields, making their “blackness” moot. She was looking for the proof that “separate but equal” still existed and instead she learned that black alumni were simply “equal” and did not support a philosphy of “separate” from their white/Asian/Hispanic counterparts.
Not much has changed for Michelle Obama in the last 27 years. Her mere spending habits, all on the taxpayer dime, shows that she still maintains her “entitlement” mentality. I am sure she thinks that spending our money is a form of “restitution” that she is due.
I think everyone is missing the point of the Obama video and the Michelle Obama pictures showing her protesting along with Prof. Derrick Bell.
ReplyDeleteProfessor Derrick Bell was known as the Jeremiah Wright of academia. During his lifetime (in the 70’s mostly), he developed a theory called critical race theory, and something about his philosophy resonated strongly with Barak Obama. This “race theory” holds that civil rights movement was a sham and that white supremacy is the order and it must be over thrown –Sounds pretty radical to me.
His theory in a nutshell -
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Critical_Race_Theory.aspx
“Don’t pursue the messenger, pursue the truth”
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/45113
Here’s a sample of Prof. Barak Obama’s assignments while teaching at Harvard -
http://ironicsurrealism.com/2012/03/13/doc-drop-while-at-university-of-chicago-law-school-obama-school-made-writings-of-radical-racialist-derrick-bell-required-reading/