Sick Republican Analysis of Michelle Obama’s Thesis

You can read it here.

Sick Republican.That is my new expression to stereotype those twisted right wing psychos who write claptrap. The other side, of course, will be the Sick Democrats. There are many examples from both sides so don’t feel left out just because I highlight the Republicans today.

A lot of things may be important to know about presidential candidates but some things are irrelevant and immaterial, like the college thesis of a candidate’s wife. Ms. Neuwirth’s talent lies in reading a thesis written twenty years ago and extrapolating that to the core beliefs of the wife of the yet-to-be-selected Presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Ms. Neuwirth is a good example of how to take a 20-year old document and make it subvertive literature. Ms Neuwirth can take the beliefs of a 20-something year old and turn them into a Stephen King novel that will make you afraid to turn off the lights at night. In fact, you may want to turn on a few lights now before we get started.

Here we go:

Let’s begin with the title of Ms. Neuwirth’s article:

Michelle Obama’s Black Separatist Background: What Does It Mean for All Americans? 

Ms. Neuwirth has managed to put the word “Black” as a descriptor along with “Separatist”  and “Background” to promote the idea that Michelle has buried secrets, dark secrets, in her past. Then the question is added and demonstrates that Michelle Obama is different from normal Americans by saying “All Americans”.

What did Ms. Neuwirth’s analysis uncover?

 Michelle LaVaughn Robinson’s thesis is obsessed with the distinction between “Blacks” and “Whites.” The words ““American” and “Americans” appear rarely in it, – seven times by my count; the expression “U.S.A.” occurs once, and “ U.S. ” once. The word “America ” does not appear in it at all. But the words “Black” and “White,” always capitalized, and always referring to racial groups, appear by my count 475 times and 181 times, respectively – in every case, judging from the context, referring to Blacks and Whites in the United States. There are no references at all to Hispanic, Asian or Amerindian Americans! It would be hard to find a more dramatic way for the author to indicate that her feeling that the United States consists of two nations, not one, and that the 20-30 million Americans who are not a part of either the “Black” or the “White” nation do not exist at all.

Imagine that. The thesis is about how college-educated blacks spend time with white people and lose touch with their black roots circa 1985.  Actually using words like Black and White to describe, well, Black people and White people, is a surprise and apparently a shock to Ms. Neuwirth.  She is also shocked that a thesis about Black people does not contain anything about Asians or Hispanics. The horror is unimaginable to Ms. Neuwirth:

 Robinson Obama’s thesis was written 23 years ago, and of course the views of a 21-year-old college senior are not necessarily those of a 44-year-old professional such as Michelle Obama is today. However, there are disturbing indications that her view of the United States and Black-White relations in our country has not changed all that much in 23 years. Her remark during a campaign speech as recently as February 2008 that “… for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback,” suggests underlying negative feelings about American society that have remained unchanged since her “adult life” began. And is it a pure coincidence that this “adult life” began around 1985, when her senior thesis was written?

OMG! Disturbing indications! What will we do, now that the truth is known?

How ‘disturbing’ that Black-White relations are seen as, well, unchanged. Ms. Neuwirth appears to equate legal equality and social equality with ‘relations’ between people. Now that is truly ‘disturbing’.

 But lest you think that a 20 year old thesis is not significant, Ms Neuwirth tells us:

  Instead of dismissing the Princeton thesis as “old news’” while saying nothing of its contents, Michelle and Barack Obama should candidly discuss these contents with the American people, and explain just how their present views differ from those Michelle expressed in 1985. I see no reason why Barack Obama should be entrusted with the most powerful office in the United States if he and his “ears” (as her spokesperson Ms.McCormick-Lelyveld characterizes Michelle Obama) are unwilling to do so.

See the logic  here: Barack Obama should not be President today if he will not discuss what his wife wrote about 20 years ago while in college. Makes Sick Republican sense, doesn’t it?

My thanks to Right Truth for spreading the word about Ms. Neuwirth. Oh, I forgot. You were spreading this claptrap because you thought it had value in exposing the Right Truth about the Obamas in the presidential election. Well, enough said about your standards.  

Here is a link to a site that has had a run-in with Ms. Neuwirth previously.