| Not sure Michelle is a "victim"???
And don't be misled by a few clever sounding terms like "post-modern class of victim", Booner. Still, the quoted sentence sounds nice as it says what the loyal visitor of the blog wants to read.
"Objective", "analysis"? - neither of the two, it is a piece which attempts to reveal contradictions in order to discredit.
Let's just have a quick look at the first bit of the blog entry:
The first 1989 paragraph is almost entirely copied from an article in the sensationalist tabloid "The Mail", with a few unacknowledged omissions and additions to the text.
The claim: "Instead of the one-room tenement that now appears in most accounts of her upbringing, we found a well-kept neighborhood of red-brick Arts and Craft-style houses which have long been home to respectable black families."
From chicagomag, linked to in the blog: "Michelle Obama, 40, grew up on Chicago's South Side. Her working-class parents rented the top floor of a two-flat from her great-aunt, who lived downstairs and taught Michelle to play the piano. Her mother stayed home with her and Craig, two years older, until they reached high school, when she took a job as an administrative assistant."
No mention of a single room, but a floor in the house of a relative. "Well-kept" and "working class" do not exclude each other. It continues to point out that the salary was higher than that of a High-school teacher at the time, as if that would somehow make the family "middle-class"
- this is spin, not "analysis".
Sorry, I didn't bother reading further, a lot of exaggerating and discrediting there, as one would expect from a site called "freedomsenemies" with a partisan agenda.
You need to learn to assess your sources and not to mistake a sloppily put-together opinion piece for "objective analysis", Boon Mee. |