Whites in America - ‘ineradicably racist’
Posted by StormWarning on 31 May 2008 at 10:15 pm | Tagged as: Commentary, Politics
ADDED: As noted below, I suspect that some “IQ sharing people” will not get the point of this post. I am not too surprised. There are people all over who read stuff like the chain email referred to by the Congressional Quarterly and believe it…that Michelle Obama’s senior thesis contained blatantly racist remarks (which it did not)…never check facts, repeat what they “read” to others, and then, in almost an instant, it spreads around the Internet and becomes “fact.” So, as you can see below from the one comment, you can count on the inability of the people of this country to see the difference between fact and fiction…or even to read past the headline of an article. So thankyou “CK in a Red State” for proving my point.
ORIGINAL POST:One of the easiest ways to try to attack Barack Obama is to go after his wife. A recent email circulated around the Internet alleges that Michelle Obama’s senior thesis at Princeton stated that America was a nation founded on ‘crime and hatred’ and stated that whites in America were ‘ineradicably racist.’
The full thesis can be found in sections here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
All of the evidence suggests that while Michelle’s thesis was race-conscious, it does not include anti-white invectives. The truth is that her thesis did not say what the chain e-mail alleged. The Congressional Quarterly PolitiFact.com calls Chain e-mails (chain e-mails circulate on the Internet, making charges against a candidate).
Additional sources on this matter:
Politico, Michelle Obama thesis was on racial divide, Feb. 22, 2008
Princeton University, The senior thesis
Princeton University, Senior theses and Ph.D. dissertations
Princeton University, Sociology Department
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgian recalls rooming with Michelle Obama, April 13, 2008
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Roommate story resonates strongly across racial lines, April 19, 2008
The Internet has spawned a breed of commentators who seek and find information that supports their point of view or prejudice…and then, like the old waxy string and orange juice can, the “information” spreads like wildfire, morphing, changing shape, and taking on alife of its own…even when it isn’t true (and there are some people who will believe it).
Feel better now?
Internet spawns ignorance, Michelle Obama, Princeton University, thesis
You must feel good now, given that you’ve glibly announced: “Whites in America - ‘ineradicably racist.’”
Guess you’ve used the Internet to spawn a grossly stupid generalization of all whites in the U.S. That can’t be, though, can it, because you’re just stating fact, right?
Perhaps when you extract your head from a body cavity in which it never belonged, you might attempt, no matter how painfully, to add a governor to your own remarks.
No, actually, I was showing how easily false information is spread by people. As for you and suggestion for me to get my head out of my ass (noting that you’re a Texan). Here are my suggestions for you:
1) get a brain - you obviously missed the point of what I wrote
2) bite me (press enter to play)
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