"Michelle Obama raged against the risk of her "integration and/or assimilation into a White cultural and social structure" in her Princeton University thesis. I reviewed this document, remarkable for its rancor as well as for its orthographical dysfunction, during her husband's first presidential campaign ten years ago.
Now that Mrs. Obama has emerged as a prospective candidate for the 2020 presidential election, her radical rant is worth another look.
Below is my 2008 Asia Times essay.
Sing, O Muse, the Wrath of Michelle--By Spengler
...We had a peek into her diary last week when the Obama campaign finally made public her undergraduate thesis, titled "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community."
The contents of this remarkable document sharpen the profile of Obama's women that I offered last week...
The contents of this remarkable document sharpen the profile of Obama's women that I offered last week...
Barack Obama, I argued, evinces a preternatural sangfroid, for he is in America but not of it, a Third World anthropologist profiling Americans.
But his wife's anger at America will out, for it is a profound rage amplified by guilt..."
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