I must admit this show is chock-full of melodrama–the kind you can’t look away from. This is the episode that the gives Lisa Wu-Hartwell’s “Closet Freak” line along with the Fashion Stylist Tracy Sipp there coup de gras. You really see more than just a “good first effort” as NeNe diminuitively referred to as; I saw a very tasteful, trendy, and refreshing way of looking at these items that ingeniously could be worn on a night out or worn at night entertaining that special significant other. Mr. Tracy Sipp did launch a subtle attack on Sheree who was the absentee rival. To show up late with a off-the-top-of-the deck excuse, adding insult to injury–further waxed Mr. Tracy Sipp’s fury which was quite contained. For Ms. Whitfield to throw the final jab at Lisa by saying that she didn’t miss much; indicative of what Lisa was wearing; shows that Sheree is classless, self-absorbed with delusion of granduer, petty and ultimately inferior to the likes of Lisa and Tracy Sipp’s Fashion prowess.

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.

SOME Martha’s Vineyard residents need to check THEIR history…They ARE the descendants of SLAVES also…and that “classy” little distinction is what has produced a-many-of Ghetto folks in EVERY corner of the black community….HELLO PEOPLE!!!!

Some nerve!…You got to be kiddin’ me!!!!

And I believe you get what you give in life…

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

I’m sure none of you could hold a candle to Mrs. Obama,, she is a classy lady. Right up ther with Jackie Kennedy Oanasis. To me that is the cruelist insult anyone could give our First Lady. The ones who made the comments I’m sure will be the first to get in line to take a picture of the First Family. How dare you make such a derogertory comment. You all should learn respect. What is happening to America and what so many blacks and whites have given their lives for. Freedom. If you haven’t fought for freedom in this country, or lost a loved one, and were not born here give us back our country. GO HOME!