Michelle Obama Watch

While some blacks are out achieving and contributing others are playing a silly game of talk-yourself-into-being-somebody. How silly and classless to even talk that way. Come on Marthas Vineyard people, get a life do something and watch your values and conversation change.

I recall reading a book once by a Chicago advertising person who wrote a book on this same subject. In her book she mentioned some Washington DC descendants of Frederick Douglas who were on Social Security berating John Henry Johnson, publisher of Ebony magazine. They declared him unfit to be in their circle just because of their heritage.

Mrs. Obama should not give those classless comment even scant attention.

I agree with Pepper. However it’s still sad.

Ignorance is Bliss!!!

first of all please do not say Michelle has “SWAG” do not put those slang words on such a remarkable woman. She is classy and definitely more classy than some women who sit around downgrading a female who has more power than all of them combined.

The comments written above came straight from the heart and I want my full name recorded.

she is the bom bom bom bom

These women are JEALOUS. Jealous that their heritage and probably complexion could not get them into the White House. Jealous because Michelle does not cow-tow to them. Jealous because people who actually work hard are the winners and not the poor inbred losers holding onto heritage as proof that they are somebody special.

Sorry, girls. It’s not the color of Michelle’s skin, and Pepper, my skin is as light as any white person’s. My hair is as straight. I had a friend who would visit Martha’s Vineyard because her brother worked for a Fortune 500 company. She would not let me anywhere near her vacation buddies. Didn’t think I was good enough, although I am a third-generation college graduate and own a large company. They have their ways of de-selecting people. Don’t jump to conclusions about color.

“In this ode to the affluent Black community in the popular New England vacation spot, Touré quotes an anonymous member of Black high society in Martha’s Vineyard saying, “[Michelle Obama] is basically a ghetto girl. She grew up in the same place Jennifer Hudson did. She hasn’t reached out to the social community of Washington.”

I can see why the “anonymous member” of Black high society chose to remain anonymous. What on earth does this person think they have that the First Lady doesn’t?!

It was good to see your comments, Talented Tenth Member. I’m sure there are many Black high society members who are secure enough within themselves to feel no need to do the First Lady, down.

These tacky, ignorant, classless idiots are more of an embarrassment to black people than Michelle Obama could ever be! They erroneously believe that their money and status somehow makes up for them being of such low intellectual status! These are silly black folk who are used to pandering to rich white people because despite the airs they put on they still feel insecure about who they are and know that for the most part no matter how much money they make or high their “status” they will still be regarded as nothing more than a N***** to most of their high society counterparts. Michelle is a a down to earth, intelligent, well-educated black woman. She will thank God have more influence on how we as black women even view each other than those bourgie, idiots of Martha’s Vineyard who have nothing to offer the world. They are living proof that if money were everything, then they would be the most intelligent people alive but we all know that’s not true!

First Lady “Ghetto”

What else could she be from BEVERY HILLS 90210 (BIG LAUGH). But I have always been told it’s not where you are from but it’s where you are going.

They have shown the world what they are made of. And ghetto might be the magic ingredient.

GO MICHELLE

HA, HA

“TalentedTenthMember” are you aware of you exclusionary you sound? Calling Toure a “wannabe”? Why would anyone want to be so judgmental as you and your ilk. You say that you would never succumb to the crabs in the barrel syndrome but in the next line you called your fellow black people “new money negroes”. You are aware that that statement IS a put down. Maybe some self-reflection is in need before you go touting your own horn.

If this is how the upper crust Black community conducts business it indicates that they have no class!

No one has to bow down to them because of their lineage, their money or their status.

Thanks to our ancestors the black race has overcome tremendous obstacles. It is disheartening to hear that some blacks still feel as if they’re better than another simply due to their money and status. The statement of topic on this page is proof of how deeply scared the black race is stemming from our beginnings in America. We as blacks are not cohesive as a race, we still have the field slave / house slave syndrome. I am tremendously proud of our ancestors but I am ashamed of the show we as African Americans are putting on today. We need to do away with the self hatred and come together for the en betterment of our people as a whole regardless of skin color, financial status or career title. We need not to mock the white race but be proud of what we as African Americans contribute to the world.

Comes money comes separation.When people removed themselves from the class of humanity and labeled themselves to be upper,lower,high,middle or no class .They or missing out on the goodness of life. Instead what they have surrounding them is a bunch of people eager to please and lie to them for what they can get from them .Money & your good name doesnt buy hapiness.The goodness of growing up in any ghetto allows you to experienced true family,true friends,people who genuinly cares about your future .Not the fake family & friends that the so called black society has sprauled all around them. Waiting for them to die so that they can spend their money.Michelle Obama had real familys and friends before she got to the white house, parents who have thought her she can reach the sky if the sky is what she wants as long as she doesn’t turned up her nose at any one while she is on her way there,and never to forget where she was coming from .I can tell she listened well to all the ghetto folks telling because she didn’t reach the white house by her self she was helped along the way by all the human beings whose path she has crossed .Michelle is untouchable by all of your negative comments she could care less what any one but her true friends and family has to say about her she holds her head up high to show the haters that they can say anything but that can never change the fact that her a seed from the ghetto is the first lady of our united states of AMERICA. AND NO ONE CAN TOUCH THAT

When Michelle speaks, I hear a lot of anger

And I believe you get what you give in life…

Maybe Michelle was slighted because of her own behavior and comments.

“She IS black high society.”
She IS high society – any and all color ! She is the FIRST Lady of the United States. It doesn’t get any higher than that !

Boy, people sure are fast to jump to conclusions and take the words of a media representative as the god-given truth. Who says Toure isn’t embellishing a bit just to put himself in the spotlight and secure his job for a few more years? Controversy has always been a big seller, especially when it involves Black people (can we say “CNN’s Black in America”??), and Toure knew just the right thing to say.

I, too, am from the same city and side of town as Michelle O. and I am far from being ghetto. Upon going to college I met many people, especially those of the older, over 55 generation who were part of the Black middle class. I found them to be great! I loved the “bourgeoisie” folks on campus and their parent and grandparents – why? Because, unlike so many of my contemporaries from the same neighborhoods as me, the bourgie set ALWAYS knew their Black history, were very proud of it, and could shut a white or Black, patronizing liberal DOWN when they would patronizingly say that Blacks had no history or culture due to slavery, etc, etc. Which is of course, not true. The Black upper classers never capitulated to this subtle racism of low expectations and always could run rings around any historian when it came to laying out the positive histories of much of Black America. The people I had the great fortune of meeting were the staunchest defenders of Black America and believed in excellence in every area, which is why I loved them.

Yes, like anybody, there will always be haters out there, among the upper classes and the masses. But that doesn’t mean you should castigate a whole group based on the words or actions of a very few (that are coming from a second hand source no less with no factual evidence that this was actually said by someone in the upper class).

Believe me, there are just as many or more working class, regular middle class (vs.upper) and poor people who say and have said the same or much worse about Blacks who attain high levels of achievement. Color issues are just as rampant among us “regular folks” in the masses as they are among the Black upper class, so all this hate on the Black bourgeoisie is just a case of the pot calling the kettle black.