Michelle Obama Watch

PS- I know the area where Michelle Obama grew up – wasn’t no White folks. It was called ‘White flight’. Remember, Chicago has long been one of THE most segregated cities in the USA. When she was growing up, there was ONE ‘integrated’ area – it’s where she currently lives – Hyde Park. And, Michelle Obama did NOT grow up in Hyde Park. Like I said, they don’t fool me. Black folk and White folk don’t live side by side in Chicago…not when she grew up. White professionals in the area…..BS.

Rikyrah and Lynne,
Ya’ll are funny. I was thinking the exact same thing. Some White ppl still seem to be stuck on Michelle’s working class background because her family wasn’t rubbing nickels together. Perhaps they should take a sociology class instead of trying to revise “working class” to suit their critique of Michelle.

I remember when the media was stuck on a statement that she’d made at fundraiser for her husband a few months ago.

Michelle was advising the audience to get into the social work fields instead of seeking higher earning jobs so as to create stronger communities. Some critic accused her of hypocrisy because her annual salary was $250 – 300K. What that critic failed to mention was that Michelle was paying a hefty amount in college loans (that were recently paid off from Barack’s book sales) and that she could’ve been earning well over $300K per year as an attorney. What also isn’t considered are taxes. Just because she earned that much doesn’t mean that her income was tax-free.

If Michelle (and Barack) were on a real paper chase, they would’ve already been millionaires years ago.

So now they mad because Michelle was not poor enough?? People are really reaching to find stuff to complain about when it comes to the Obamas. So funny how no one has attacked Cindy McCain and her old druggie ways. Yes, its old new, she’s since been in rehab, however, that would be more juicy then talking about the house Michelle grew up in.

Yep, it’s an interesting one, isn’t it, Drock. We’ve got people running over to Chicago from over here in London to comment on and critique the fact that Michelle wasn’t poor enough!!

I tell you, Mr. and Mrs. Obama are proving to be quite the eye openers for some folk….

An aside: I’ve succumbed….it’s time to buy a scrapbook for all of these pictures of ‘em that I intend to cut out from here, there and everywhere.

I am from Chicago and the type of home they are talking about is called a Chicago Bunaglows and some of these Bunaglows are actually two family homes. So if Michelle’s family lived on the top floor, they may in fact lived in a space common to an apartment. She never said she lived in the hood, she said working class, but somehow working class black neigborhood must mean hood to the rest of the world.