“Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community” POLITICO Publishes Michelle Obama Thesis


February 22nd, 2008

After Princeton restricted access to Michelle Obama’s thesis many bloggers started questioning what was in the piece, they don’t have to wait any longer. The Obama campaign made the thesis available exclusively to Politico. Entitled “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community” and written under her made name Michelle LaVaughn Robinson in 1985, the piece offers a surprising window into the life and experience of Ms. Obama.

“My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘blackness’ than ever before,” the future Mrs. Obama wrote in her thesis introduction. “I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second.”

You can download a copy in Michelle Obama’s Thesis, Princeton Educated Blacks (pdf) here.

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    This is so sad. There are so many African American people that are nice, kind, intelligent and hard working. When someone writes something like this, is tells me that she is shallow, has a chip on her shoulder and wants to cry
    "Poor Black People" to get a passing grade so she really doesn't have to do the research and hard work on her paper.
    She should be ashamed and I can see why she would want this paper locked up. I am white but have more black
    friends than most black people. I have no problem with the color of a persons skin. It is character that counts.
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    I think your response was shallow. Michelle Obama obviously became very successful after leaving Princeton, which shows she is a hardworker. To imply that she was whining to get a better grade on her thesis is insulting. Just becuase you have black friends does not mean you understand the trials and tribulations that goes along with being black. You statement that you have more black friends than most blacks is even more ridiculous. Maybe you meant than most black people you know. It's easy for a person to say character counts when they are not black. Of course character is what counts but there are many Americans that see skin color first and their opionions do not change until after they get to know a person of color. I've had many people judge me based on skin color so come from under your rock and open your eyes discrimination still exists even with a new bi-racial Presidential-elect.
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