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'Michelle Obama Watch' page close to official launch | 22 comments (22 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

This got more play than the black women's blog (4.00 / 2)

This is an opportunity for black women to analyze and refute the patterns of smear and attack on Michelle Obama. In other words, it is an opportunity for black women to stop the distortion about black women, especially powerful, professional black women like Michelle Obama.

This is not to dismiss Barack at all. But black women have been increasingly concerned about how the Reich Wing spinmeisters want to drag Michelle and even the girls into their program.

An untypical Negro

by blksista (gab1954@gmail.com) on Thu Jun 12th, 2008 at 07:45:30 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: This got more play than the black women's blog (none / 1)

We have some seriously evil people who roam among us. Attacking their children? Christ Jesus, that is sick.

You better believe Black women will be all over this. In fact, we already are.

But remember, scum like that fear exactly who they are: Bold, Brilliant and Black. The scum attacking her must engage in this filth to make themselves feel better. And really--McSame offers nothing, so he'll go along with his standard prattle on the campaign trail and let the other scum do his dirty work for him.

We are not having it. Period.

Can't hear ya, Peach!

by AP on Fri Jun 13th, 2008 at 09:36:46 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: This got more play than the black women's blog (none / 1)

The press may have had a field day with the rest of Jimmy Carter's and Bill Clinton's families (especially brothers Billy and Roger) while they were in office, but Amy and Chelsea were left alone. Jenna Bush did get some attention, but she had been hauled into court for her fake ID.

Obama's girls should get the same deference that Amy and Chelsea got.

A Progressive Christian perspective on I/P at Beyond Bethlehem

by RustyPipes (rustdotypipesatyahoodotcom) on Fri Jun 13th, 2008 at 12:16:21 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Amy Carter was not left alone... (none / 0)

which is one of the reasons why she is not a public figure.

An untypical Negro

by blksista (gab1954@gmail.com) on Fri Jun 13th, 2008 at 06:43:17 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Amy Carter was not left alone... (none / 0)

Refresh my memory. I was a teenager at the time. I can't remember seeing or hearing anything about Amy other than her hopping around in the background of her parents' hotel room on election night 1976.

A Progressive Christian perspective on I/P at Beyond Bethlehem

by RustyPipes (rustdotypipesatyahoodotcom) on Fri Jun 13th, 2008 at 08:11:01 PM EST
[ Parent ]

See below... (none / 1)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Carter

She used to read at the WH table, which some people thought oddball. She was not thought of as pretty or smart, especially when she was asked whether she had any message for American kids, and she said, "No."

Then

Amy Carter later became known for her political activism, participating in a number of sit-ins and protests during the 1980s and early 1990s, aimed at changing U.S. foreign policy towards South Africa and Central America. Along with activist Abbie Hoffman and thirteen others, she was arrested during a 1987 demonstration at the University of Massachusetts, for protesting CIA recruitment there. She was acquitted of all charges in a well publicized trial in Northampton, Massachusetts. Attorney Leonard Weinglass, who defended Abbie Hoffman in the Chicago Seven trial in the 1960s, utilized the necessity defense, successfully arguing that CIA crimes in Central America and other hotspots were equivalent to trespassing in a burning building.[4] This occurred during Amy's sophomore year at Brown University located in Providence, Rhode Island. Later, Amy left Brown due to unrelated and unpublicized issues.
Amy Carter earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (BFA) from the Memphis College of Art and a Master's degree from Tulane University in New Orleans.

Amy was called a dyke at Brown; she was heckled and made fun of. I remember the news reports, like this. I was ashamed for her, that she had to go through such dismissal and heartbreak.

An untypical Negro

by blksista (gab1954@gmail.com) on Sat Jun 14th, 2008 at 06:23:50 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: See below... (none / 0)

As you point out, Amy did get some attention while her father was President, but nothing like having her picture captioned as a "nappy headed ho." Perhaps even the attention she did receive was enough for the Clintons to be strongly protective of Chelsea from the outset of Bill's Presidency -- and the press backed off.

In one sense, the harassment Amy Carter got at Brown came years after she left the White House. I doubt that Amy would have received the same level of scrutiny at 19 if she had not been the daughter of an ex-President.

There are ways to get to a famous person, especially one who is protesting against the government or its friends. When Jodi Foster was harassed and stalked while she was a Yale student, she was absolutely protected by the school administration. It's hard to know whether Amy's harassment problems were just a side problem of celebrity or if she was experiencing an orchestrated backlash by elements from the Reagan administration or friends of South Africa. Whatever the case, she certainly experienced more than most 19-year-olds are prepared to deal with.

A Progressive Christian perspective on I/P at Beyond Bethlehem

by RustyPipes (rustdotypipesatyahoodotcom) on Sat Jun 14th, 2008 at 07:00:47 PM EST
[ Parent ]

This shyt happened... (none / 1)

immediately after the Carter defeat and the Reagan ascendancy in the early Eighties. I tend to think of her getting harassment from the bow-tie, frat-beer types as a nasty reaction against the Carter years.

Plus, in comparison to Chelsea, Amy was never allowed the 'hands off' treatment, even after she left the White House, as Chelsea has been given even now.

An untypical Negro

by blksista (gab1954@gmail.com) on Mon Jun 16th, 2008 at 10:59:30 AM EST
[ Parent ]

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