Michelle Obama: I'll Take White and Black, Not Sure About the Yellow
The student Newspaper at Carnegie Mellon, the Tartan, reports on Michelle Obama's visit to campus:
While the crowd was indeed diverse, some students at the event questioned the practices of Mrs. Obama’s event coordinators, who handpicked the crowd sitting behind Mrs. Obama. The Tartan’s correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, “Get me more white people, we need more white people.” To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, “We’re moving you, sorry. It’s going to look so pretty, though.”
“I didn’t know they would say, ‘We need a white person here,’ ” said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. “I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn’t know it would be so outright.”
There's too much chocolate in my Banana Split! Can I get some vanilla? Oh and please take out the bananas, it looks prettier without it.
So much for the "post-racial" candidate.
Paul Ibrahim
in Barack Obama, Elections, Race
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