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2008-07-20 Home Front: Politix

Michelle Treated Unfairly, Just Like All the Other Sucessfull Black Women

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Posted by Bobby 2008-07-20 08:10|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Mr. Perception, I'd like you to please meet Mr. Reality. Oh, you two already know one another?

Posted by Besoeker 2008-07-20 10:24|| 2008-07-20 10:24|| Front Page Top

#2 For a black man and woman in the U.S. to be happily married, with children, and working as partners to build a life ...all while rearing their children together is downright revolutionary.

Being married and raising a family is considered 'revolutionary'? That is the saddest thing I have read all week.

Posted by SteveS 2008-07-20 11:34|| 2008-07-20 11:34|| Front Page Top

#3 black women also suffer from the perception that their achievements in school, business have been though affirmative action and not of their own doing. As with all overly-general perceptions, they start with some nugget of truth. AA and quotas do more to damage, in my mind, than help.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-07-20 11:39|| 2008-07-20 11:39|| Front Page Top

#4 We're still looking for respect in the workplace, where, more than anything else, black women feel invisible.

Congratulations, you've achieve American middle class. We're all an invisible gray. We buy into a concept in which there is no color, only status by merit. What you are articulating is that the original goals of the 50s and 60s Civil Rights movement have been achieved, only that's not what you really wanted. You want to be 'special', along with the perks and powers that come with being 'special'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-07-20 12:08|| 2008-07-20 12:08|| Front Page Top

#5 On the other hand, when was the last time you saw a smart, accomplished black professional woman portrayed on mainstream television or in the movies?

Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, CSI Miami, Without a Trace, Heroes, Boston Legal... and that's with about five minutes of searching.

Posted by Pappy 2008-07-20 12:08|| 2008-07-20 12:08|| Front Page Top

#6 dammit, Pappy, you're busting the meme

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-07-20 12:13|| 2008-07-20 12:13|| Front Page Top

#7 This is like a "Baby On Board" placard: Yuppies congratulating themselves (and bragging to the world) for doing what LOTS of people with less money and fewer advantages managed to do out of innate decency and moral fiber. WooHoo...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-07-20 13:07|| 2008-07-20 13:07|| Front Page Top

#8 "loud," "angry," "intimidating," "mean," "opinionated," "aggressive," "hard."

Sorry, dahlink, but if you are going to go into a traditionally male profession, you are going to run the risk of being characterized that way by some of the guys there, regardless of your color, if you dare to occasionally speak up against behavior you find unacceptable. It has nothing to do with your pigmentation.

Deal with it or go somewhere there are more women colleagues.

Posted by Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-07-20 14:30|| 2008-07-20 14:30|| Front Page Top

#9 But Michelle, do tell us about that $200,000 raise you got for your clerical job when your hubby became US Senator. That smells like a dead hippo.

Posted by wxjames 2008-07-20 14:49|| 2008-07-20 14:49|| Front Page Top

#10 If, and I still say its a big If, Obama gets elected POTUS, this lady will make Hillary look like a Sunday school teacher. She will be spitting dragon fire around the country and head butting everyone of us to get with the program - which is, of course, repatriation. Don't believe me? Watch.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-07-20 16:27|| 2008-07-20 16:27|| Front Page Top

#11 Oh boy. At least four more years of hearing people with more power and a LOT more money than I am BITCH about how much life sucks for them.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-07-20 16:36|| 2008-07-20 16:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Jack, I suspect you mean reparations, Yes?

Posted by lotp 2008-07-20 17:05|| 2008-07-20 17:05|| Front Page Top

#13 If a woman chooses a professional career but really wants a husband and family, she'd better hold the wedding right after her graduation ceremony. The male marriage pool shrinks with age (despite divorces), as the women for whom marriage and family are important take the interested men out of circulation, and many of those remaining refuse to be tested against someone's Platonic ideal (ok, perhaps platonic isn't quite the right word here). It's an interesting bit mathematical theory, as it turns out, which should be great fun for those of you able to follow it. Certainly our baby boomer black female professional has no business complaining about what holds equally true for her non-black equals.

As for the rest of the whine, if she wanted everyone to be see her as gentle and supportive instead of ball-busting, she should have chosen a career in housewifery, where the odds of that are better. Although, "loud," "intimidating," "opinionated," "aggressive," and "hard" are often compliments in the business world... even a gentle and supportive little housewife like me knows that.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-07-20 17:09|| 2008-07-20 17:09|| Front Page Top

#14 Being married and raising a family is considered 'revolutionary'? That is the saddest thing I have read all week.

It is and it is. :(

Posted by .5MT 2008-07-20 18:18|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-07-20 18:18|| Front Page Top

#15 "they're either indifferent to or dogmatically document the mistakes black women make. Their indifference is the worst, because it means we're invisible."

Be damned glad it's indifference. If you're as arrogant, loudmouthed and incompetent as most of the professional blacks I met in my career, "indifference" would have been replaced with an active and well-merited effort to have you fired for cause.

Just because you're black doesn't mean you're entitled to ANYTHING. Most people are indifferent to other people; so what? There aren't that many Mother Teresas running around. As for a lack of mentoring, it seems to me there are thousands of things like the "Journal of Blacks in Higher Education" out there. Nobody else gets those; only you poor, misguided, mistreated blacks.

I'm sick of the underperformance, the unwarranted arrogance, the attitude of presumptive entitlement, the constant "race card" playing, and, most particularly, the vastly disproportionate violent criminal activity. So are lots of other people, which is why most people of other races tend to see blacks negatively and avoid dealings with them when they can.

There she is -- no, not Miss America, but the Angela-Davis-Afro-wearing, machine-gun-toting, angry, unpatriotic Michelle Obama, greeting her husband with a fist bump instead of a kiss on the cheek.

Yeah, I can see why blacks wouldn't like that. It's too close to the real truth.

Posted by Jomosing Bluetooth8431 2008-07-20 18:45|| 2008-07-20 18:45|| Front Page Top

#16 Oprah Winfrey is not amused.

Posted by Woozle Unusosing8053 2008-07-20 19:34|| 2008-07-20 19:34|| Front Page Top

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