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The Diversity Show, Starring Michelle Obama: 'We Need More White People'

Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:31:28 am PDT

When Michelle Obama spoke at Carnegie Mellon University last week, her event organizers had a very specific purpose in mind as they handpicked the people who sat behind her: Michelle Obama speaks at presidential rally in Skibo Gym.

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.”

(Hat tip: Terp Mole.)

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1 BabbaZee  4/08/08 10:32:21 am reply quote

Typical White People!

2 Noam Sayin'  4/08/08 10:33:04 am reply quote

I bet she's proud, now.

3 BabbaZee  4/08/08 10:33:24 am reply quote
Mrs. Obama was careful to note that the Obamas, both of whom are Harvard-educated lawyers and who together own a million-dollar home in Illinois, grew up under difficult conditions.


Bwahaha!

4 wrenchwench  4/08/08 10:34:05 am reply quote

Those diversity lineups are always the same.

5 ethanxxx  4/08/08 10:34:11 am reply quote

re: #2 Noam Sayin'

Noam! Good Afternoon Sir.

6 galloping granny  4/08/08 10:34:14 am reply quote

Michelle Obama the racist needs a Typical White Person to make her look good? Go figure . . . . .

7 pat  4/08/08 10:34:21 am reply quote

I suppose all politicians do this. I wonder how Michelle can bear being next to a white person?

8 Sabnen  4/08/08 10:35:22 am reply quote

Were those 'typical white people' or otherwise?

9 Nene1  4/08/08 10:35:23 am reply quote

Can you imagine what would happen if McCain shufled people about at a Q&A session according to their race ?
/Rhetorical.

10 savage_nation[deleted]  4/08/08 10:35:31 am
11 Vergeltung  4/08/08 10:35:37 am reply quote

gack! what phonies.........

12 calcajun  4/08/08 10:36:05 am reply quote

Token whites? Trying hard to show that BHO (c'mon does he really want to be referred to as simply "BO") is not just the "black" candidate.

13 Oblede Obleda  4/08/08 10:36:19 am reply quote

Welcome to the wonderful world of politics, kids!

14 coquimbojoe  4/08/08 10:36:20 am reply quote

We need more cowbell! Stat, dammit!

15 Jetpilot1101  4/08/08 10:36:25 am reply quote

So was Ms. Obama engaging in racial profiling? I thought we weren't supposed to do that anymore.

16 Sabnen  4/08/08 10:36:27 am reply quote

re: #6 galloping granny

Oh Granny, you beat me and said it better!

17 laZardo  4/08/08 10:37:04 am reply quote

I refuse to give up my seat for Michelle Obama!

/now they talk about Asians...

18 Fenway_Nation  4/08/08 10:37:15 am reply quote

So her need for more white people was fleeting and very very temporary, at best.....

/sounds about right

19 MandyManners  4/08/08 10:37:20 am reply quote

I reckon Maria Pinto is white enough for her.

20 anotherindyfilmguy  4/08/08 10:37:34 am reply quote

Shocking! Hopefully someone will have it up on youtube soon though...

21 markx  4/08/08 10:37:42 am reply quote
...I didn’t know it would be so outright

LOL, you ain't seen nothing yet, honey. We're in for a hell of ride the next 4 years.

22 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  4/08/08 10:38:13 am reply quote

“We’re moving you, sorry. It’s going to look so pretty, though.”

They'll say the same thing when they start making their "classless" Utopian society.

23 galloping granny  4/08/08 10:38:16 am reply quote

re: #3 BabbaZee

Mrs. Obama was careful to note that the Obamas, both of whom are Harvard-educated lawyers and who together own a million-dollar home in Illinois, grew up under difficult conditions.

I don't know. I suspect that the average Typical White Person would not consider the $7000 a year private school Obama attended in Hawai'i difficult circumstances" by any stretch of the imagination.

Barefoot children of sharecroppers would have been "difficult circumstances."

24 calcajun  4/08/08 10:38:37 am reply quote

Aw, think of how cute it would be to have the first coupled be called, "BO" & "MO".

not..

25 coquimbojoe  4/08/08 10:38:38 am reply quote

Symbolism over substance.

26 Jetpilot1101  4/08/08 10:39:15 am reply quote

re: #21 markx

...no matter who gets elected.

27 IPLaw  4/08/08 10:39:20 am reply quote

How open minded - she's a proponent of both affirmative action and, for typical white people, affirmative Obamination. She can truly repsent us all!

28 Who Watches the Watchmen?  4/08/08 10:39:21 am reply quote

I'm shocked, SHOCKED that a political speech would be stage-managed.

29 calcajun  4/08/08 10:39:21 am reply quote

re: #22 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Didn't people say the same thing about busing kids?

30 Honorary Yooper  4/08/08 10:39:23 am reply quote

re: #24 calcajun

Aw, think of how cute it would be to have the first coupled be called, "BO" & "MO".

not..

Body Odor and Modus Operandi?

31 calcajun  4/08/08 10:39:55 am reply quote

re: #30 Honorary Yooper

That about sums it up.

32 galloping granny  4/08/08 10:39:55 am reply quote

re: #8 Sabnen

Were those 'typical white people' or otherwise?

Of course they were not Typical White People. All of us Typical White People know darned good and well that we are not welcome at the Obama table except as Token Whiteys so we stay away.

33 chinesearithmetic  4/08/08 10:40:12 am reply quote

Yes, We're Canned!

34 WriterMom  4/08/08 10:40:21 am reply quote

For the first time in her adult life-she wants white people around her!

35 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  4/08/08 10:40:29 am reply quote

OT

UN expert stands by Nazi comments

The next UN investigator into Israeli conduct in the occupied territories has stood by comments comparing Israeli actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis.

Speaking to the BBC, Professor Richard Falk said he believed that up to now Israel had been successful in avoiding the criticism that it was due.

Professor Falk is scheduled to take up his post for the UN Human Rights Council later in the year.

But Israel wants his mandate changed to probe Palestinian actions as well.

Professor Falk said he drew the comparison between the treatment of Palestinians with the Nazi record of collective atrocity, because of what he described as the massive Israeli punishment directed at the entire population of Gaza.

36 zmdavid  4/08/08 10:40:32 am reply quote
“We’re moving you, sorry. It’s going to look so pretty, though.”


Beyond parody.

37 bulwrk  4/08/08 10:40:32 am reply quote

re: #2 Noam Sayin'

Her brother seems to be doing fairly well

Craig Robinson selected as new men’s basketball coach at Oregon State

38 Vergeltung  4/08/08 10:40:36 am reply quote

re: #22 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

“We’re moving you, sorry. It’s going to look so pretty, though.”

They'll say the same thing when they start making their "classless" Utopian society.

"yes, step right into this re-indoctrination center. remove your clothes and leave your belongings. you will feel no pain"

you will be absorbed.

39 WriterMom  4/08/08 10:41:04 am reply quote

re: #3 BabbaZee

It is a very DIFFICULT million dollar home to manage!

40 wrenchwench  4/08/08 10:41:08 am reply quote

Imported from the previous thread because it belongs here:

#159 wrenchwench 4/08/08 10:26:14 am
re: #112 Terp Mole
“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.”

"So outright." That's the big sin. They're all about the nuance.

41 IPLaw  4/08/08 10:41:13 am reply quote

I wonder what her strategist called it - a "Reverse Rosa"?

42 BabbaZee  4/08/08 10:41:17 am reply quote

re: #23 galloping granny

/I got her difficult circumstances, right here....

Theoretical Gramscian Eugenicisstic Racialist Entitlement Whore from HELL.

Say it ten times FAST!

lololool

43 Kirly  4/08/08 10:41:18 am reply quote

outright racism and pandering on the left? who knew?

hmph.

44 wanumba  4/08/08 10:41:41 am reply quote

Skin over substance.

45 shibumi  4/08/08 10:41:57 am reply quote

This is all a big mistake.

The minions were just moving people so that those in the audience would able to recognize Ms. Obama on a stage that was full.

Her beautiful, ebony skin is easy to spot in a sea of bland beige, but not so easy to spot in a sea of beautiful, ebony skin.

It was the help the people in the back.

/channeling the lib excuse machine

46 Who Watches the Watchmen?  4/08/08 10:41:57 am reply quote

Christ, Marx, Woods and Wei
Lead us to this perfect day

47 laZardo  4/08/08 10:42:00 am reply quote

re: #35 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Well, he is speaking the twoof.

48 Roentgen  4/08/08 10:42:28 am reply quote

LaKe'sha, Dontr'eL..quick! Go grab Jackie and Dunlap!

49 Kirly  4/08/08 10:42:33 am reply quote

another hmph! i don't care what color these people are, they're freaking marxists! the only way i'd be seen standing behind them in support is if i were already DEAD! sort of a weekend at kirly's. lol

50 Maximu§  4/08/08 10:42:35 am reply quote

Well, I guess us White Folk better get used to being at the back-of-the-bus when the Obama's come to power.

51 coquimbojoe  4/08/08 10:43:03 am reply quote

re: #19 MandyManners

I reckon Maria Pinto is white enough for her.

Read the comments. People love her! I just don't get that. She is as insufferable and arrogant as John effin' Kerry.

52 Oblede Obleda  4/08/08 10:43:10 am reply quote

With these people running things, it could be:
"Will all of you in this group here please step into these showers?"

53 galloping granny  4/08/08 10:43:27 am reply quote

re: #50 Maximu§

Well, I guess us White Folk better get used to being at the back-of-the-bus under the bus when the Obama's come to power.

Fixed

54 Jetpilot1101  4/08/08 10:43:33 am reply quote

When do you think they will replace "Old Glory" with the hammer and sickle?

55 2SoonOld2LateSmart  4/08/08 10:43:36 am reply quote

The more dee-verse we are, dee-werse it gets.

/just sayin

56 laZardo  4/08/08 10:43:44 am reply quote

re: #50 Maximu§

No, Michelle wanted the white people up front.

/oh...wait...

57 markx  4/08/08 10:43:56 am reply quote

re: #43 Kirly


I just love it when college kids get introduced to reality.

58 Kirly  4/08/08 10:44:00 am reply quote

re: #50 Maximu§

Well, I guess us White Folk better get used to being at the back-of-the-bus when the Obama's come to power.

exactly what these marxist racists want.... revenge.

59 Alibaba  4/08/08 10:44:05 am reply quote

We need a white person. How about grandma, if you can pull her out from under the bus?re: #1 BabbaZee

60 bunker buster  4/08/08 10:44:31 am reply quote

re: #22 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

“We’re moving you, sorry. It’s going to look so pretty, though.”

They'll say the same thing when they start making their "classless" Utopian society.

Well, they've certainly got the classless part down pat.

61 indythinker  4/08/08 10:44:32 am reply quote

Any American citizen should be good enough. One person, one vote.

62 galloping granny  4/08/08 10:44:47 am reply quote

re: #51 coquimbojoe

Read the comments. People love her! I just don't get that. She is as insufferable and arrogant as John effin' Kerry.

Has it dawned on you yet that those people who just love her might very well be her own campaign staffers padding the comments?

63 BabbaZee  4/08/08 10:44:52 am reply quote

re: #59 Alibaba

Someone put some powder on those tire tracks and fluff her hair , quick!


lol

64 Ringo the Gringo  4/08/08 10:44:57 am reply quote

re: #52 Oblede Obleda

With these people running things, it could be:
"Will all of you in this group here please step into these showers?"

Huh?

65 MandyManners  4/08/08 10:44:59 am reply quote

re: #51 coquimbojoe

Read the comments. People love her! I just don't get that. She is as insufferable and arrogant as John effin' Kerry.

The content of her character stinks.

66 mattm  4/08/08 10:45:03 am reply quote

Imagine if someone refused to move. I wonder what MO would do?

67 laZardo  4/08/08 10:45:35 am reply quote

Where are her seating allotments for the cynical, slothful and mean?

68 markx  4/08/08 10:45:39 am reply quote

re: #58 Kirly

exactly what these marxist racists want.... revenge.

... and a check $$.

69 Kirly  4/08/08 10:45:40 am reply quote

re: #57 markx

I just love it when college kids get introduced to reality.

me too. and the sooner the better. the norm is the first paycheck ("HEY! Where'd all my money go?").

70 calcajun  4/08/08 10:45:53 am reply quote

re: #58 Kirly

No so much revenge, but the politics of payback. They won't do anything different but use political patronage to put their cronies in office. They have no desire to change the system as they want to use it to "get theirs".

71 Maximu§  4/08/08 10:45:58 am reply quote

re: #53 galloping granny

LOL, Thank You Granny

72 laZardo  4/08/08 10:46:01 am reply quote

re: #66 mattm

Behead those who insult diversity!

73 anotherindyfilmguy  4/08/08 10:46:10 am reply quote

re: #65 MandyManners

The content of her character stinks.

They don't care a tinker's damn about content of anything, image is everything to them and most who blindly follow them...

74 Ward Cleaver  4/08/08 10:46:27 am reply quote

re: #17 laZardo

I refuse to give up my seat for Michelle Obama!

/now they talk about Asians...

The Carnegie-Mellon auditorium boycott?

75 Iron Fist  4/08/08 10:46:39 am reply quote

She prefers to judge them by the color of their skin, not the content of their character...

76 BabbaZee  4/08/08 10:46:41 am reply quote

re: #66 mattm

Imagine if someone refused to move. I wonder what MO would do?

Wouldn't happen in that crowd of bleaters

77 MandyManners  4/08/08 10:46:44 am reply quote

re: #66 mattm

Imagine if someone refused to move. I wonder what MO would do?

She'd be a typical WAB.

78 ParanoidPyro  4/08/08 10:46:54 am reply quote

Hey, I'm white, and I won't make too many innapropriate gestures or hidden signs. Although I might wear my new "Typcial white person" T-shirt as a show of solidarity to all my "homies."

79 BabbaZee  4/08/08 10:47:13 am reply quote

re: #75 Iron Fist

144,000 updings
and a cigar

80 Noam Sayin'  4/08/08 10:47:19 am reply quote

re: #5 ethanxxx

Hey, Ethan.

81 Ward Cleaver  4/08/08 10:47:21 am reply quote

re: #63 BabbaZee

Someone put some powder Bondo on those tire tracks and fluff her hair , quick!


lol

Fixed.

82 Diamond Bullet  4/08/08 10:47:26 am reply quote

The only reason she wanted more "white people" in the audience was because otherwise she wouldn't have anyone to blame. The world is a harsh, merciless place when you're a Harvard Law School graduate making $400,000 a year doing almost nothing. Why, if not for The Man holding her down, she might be making $800,000 a year and doing absolutely nothing at all.

83 WriterMom  4/08/08 10:47:34 am reply quote

re: #66 mattm

THAT would have been awesome. A new version of the Rosa Parks story. LOLOLOL

84 bunker buster  4/08/08 10:47:43 am reply quote

re: #69 Kirly

me too. and the sooner the better. the norm is the first paycheck ("HEY! Where'd all my money go?").

Heh. I remember getting my first actual paycheck from a part-time job when I was around 14 or 15. That was pretty much my reaction.

85 BabbaZee  4/08/08 10:48:06 am reply quote

re: #81 Ward Cleaver

AHHAA!

86 Jetpilot1101  4/08/08 10:48:08 am reply quote

re: #70 calcajun

They have no desire to change the system as they want to use it to "get theirs".

To "get theirs"? If I was living in a million dollar mansion, I would think I would have "gotten mine". It boggles my mind that people who have so much want so much more. What ever happened to being content with what God has given you, especially when it is so much!?

87 Ringo the Gringo  4/08/08 10:48:45 am reply quote

Eskimos!...Where are the Eskimos?..er...excuse me...Inuits!...Why are there never any Inuits represented?

88 Shug  4/08/08 10:49:06 am reply quote
"I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple.

James Watt

89 Kirly  4/08/08 10:49:15 am reply quote

re: #64 Ringo the Gringo


re: #52 Oblede Obleda

With these people running things, it could be:
"Will all of you in this group here please step into these showers?"

Huh?

i can't be sure ringo, but i think oblede obleda meant that they are so racist and so far gone that their next step might just take them toward the unthinkable. at least that's the way i read it.

90 MandyManners  4/08/08 10:49:18 am reply quote

re: #73 anotherindyfilmguy

They don't care a tinker's damn about content of anything, image is everything to them and most who blindly follow them...

Cream puffs.

91 galloping granny  4/08/08 10:49:34 am reply quote

re: #82 Diamond Bullet

The only reason she wanted more "white people" in the audience was because otherwise she wouldn't have anyone to blame. The world is a harsh, merciless place when you're a Harvard Law School graduate making $400,000 a year doing almost nothing. Why, if not for The Man holding her down, she might be making $800,000 a year and doing absolutely nothing at all.

And hell's bells, she can hardly find dancing lessons for her two kids on that kind of scratch. Must be she needs a Welfare check to pay for it or something.

92 samhein  4/08/08 10:49:35 am reply quote

It is beyond me how people are not seeing who the Obamas really are.

I'm not a fan of Hillary's (or even McCain for that matter) but damn, they're hitting that woman for every little thing and say basically that her lies and "mis-speaking describes her real character.

Meanwhile, in another part of idiotville, Obama had multiple dealings with (VERY) questionable people, and he gets a pass and excuses, saying his associations have absolutely nothing to do with who he is.

The Dems do a great double talk. Sorry, but I think this was fixed a long time ago.

93 BabbaZee  4/08/08 10:49:36 am reply quote

re: #86 Jetpilot1101

What ever happened to being content with what God has given you, especially when it is so much!?


Amen

94 vxbush  4/08/08 10:49:48 am reply quote

re: #86 Jetpilot1101

To "get theirs"? If I was living in a million dollar mansion, I would think I would have "gotten mine". It boggles my mind that people who have so much want so much more. What ever happened to being content with what God has given you, especially when it is so much!?

Ah, contentment. A very hard thing to develop in our day and age, especially when certain people (who will remain nameless) harp and harp about how they're being "held down."

Contentment takes hard work, though.

95 markx  4/08/08 10:49:48 am reply quote

re: #69 Kirly


LOL.

My daughter in college filed a tax return for the first time last year.

It was soooo funny.

96 laZardo  4/08/08 10:50:02 am reply quote

re: #74 Ward Cleaver

[30 years later, with me sitting on a old couch with non-holographic photos on a table nearby]

"Those were trying times. I remember when they sprayed flowers and pro-diversity rhetoric at me just to force me from that seat, and I only moved because Michelle hired some pretty big guards. All I wanted to do was sit down, really, and watch the conference. I never thought it would erupt into as big a movement as big as it did."

97 BabbaZee  4/08/08 10:50:13 am reply quote

re: #89 Kirly

i can't be sure ringo, but i think oblede obleda meant that they are so racist and so far gone that their next step might just take them toward the unthinkable. at least that's the way i read it.

that's how I read it too

98 Vergeltung  4/08/08 10:50:59 am reply quote

is it just me, or did MO hit more than a few of the larger branches on the fall down from the ugly tree?

just sayin'

99 MandyManners  4/08/08 10:51:14 am reply quote

WhineyAssBitch.

100 galloping granny  4/08/08 10:51:21 am reply quote

re: #92 samhein

It is beyond me how people are not seeing who the Obamas really are.

I'm not a fan of Hillary's (or even McCain for that matter) but damn, they're hitting that woman for every little thing and say basically that her lies and "mis-speaking describes her real character.

Meanwhile, in another part of idiotville, Obama had multiple dealings with (VERY) questionable people, and he gets a pass and excuses, saying his associations have absolutely nothing to do with who he is.

The Dems do a great double talk. Sorry, but I think this was fixed a long time ago.

Yup - though I don't think anyone bothered to tell the Clintons.

101 vxbush  4/08/08 10:51:52 am reply quote

re: #98 Vergeltung

is it just me, or did MO hit more than a few of the larger branches on the fall down from the ugly tree?

just sayin'

I think it's just you. Depending on how her hair is set, she's quite pretty.

102 calcajun  4/08/08 10:51:52 am reply quote

re: #87 Ringo the Gringo

Oh, but they are. Your failure to see it is the result of an optical "aleutian".

(sorry - I could not help myself)

103 vxbush  4/08/08 10:52:17 am reply quote

re: #101 vxbush

I think it's just you. Depending on how her hair is set, she's quite pretty.

Although I'll add, beauty on the inside creates beauty on the outside.

104 Ringo the Gringo  4/08/08 10:52:47 am reply quote

re: #89 Kirly

i can't be sure ringo, but i think oblede obleda meant that they are so racist and so far gone that their next step might just take them toward the unthinkable. at least that's the way i read it.

Me too.

Seems a bit over-the-top, wouldn't you say?

105 astronmr20  4/08/08 10:53:08 am reply quote

The poor psychology major did not know "it would be so outright?"

Honey, you chose the party of race politics. Wake up.

106 buzzsawmonkey  4/08/08 10:53:41 am reply quote

So basically, Michelle is looking to put whiteface on Obama's support?

107 Oblede Obleda  4/08/08 10:54:10 am reply quote

#64 Ringo the Gringo

Just an oblique reference to the Holocaust Nazi showers

108 Diamond Bullet  4/08/08 10:54:20 am reply quote

re: #91 galloping granny

And hell's bells, she can hardly find dancing lessons for her two kids on that kind of scratch. Must be she needs a Welfare check to pay for it or something.

Or maybe we need a Universal Dancing Lesson Care program funded by the magical Taxpayer Gnomes. Honest to god, this is the 21st century - what kind of country forces its children to go through life with only 2 years of modern dance and 4 years of tap?

109 Vergeltung  4/08/08 10:54:24 am reply quote

re: #92 samhein

It is beyond me how people are not seeing who the Obamas really are.
I'm not a fan of Hillary's (or even McCain for that matter) but damn, they're hitting that woman for every little thing and say basically that her lies and "mis-speaking describes her real character.
Meanwhile, in another part of idiotville, Obama had multiple dealings with (VERY) questionable people, and he gets a pass and excuses, saying his associations have absolutely nothing to do with who he is.
The Dems do a great double talk. Sorry, but I think this was fixed a long time ago.

in the extreme liberal mind, in these cricumstances, the ends completely justify the means. they just don't care, they want it done. no matter how insane the road there is.

110 Ward Cleaver  4/08/08 10:54:29 am reply quote

re: #72 laZardo

Behead those who insult diversity!

Diversity - shut up and embrace it!

111 Kirly  4/08/08 10:54:36 am reply quote

re: #98 Vergeltung

is it just me, or did MO hit more than a few of the larger branches on the fall down from the ugly tree?

just sayin'

OMG. i thought i was alone in thinking, why does everyone keep saying these people are so attractive? barf!

112 Iron Fist  4/08/08 10:55:00 am reply quote

re: #79 BabbaZee,

As long as it's not Bill Clinton's cigar :-)

{BabbaZeeeeee}

113 Shug  4/08/08 10:55:03 am reply quote

re: #110 Ward Cleaver

Diversity - shut up and embrace it!

We will not tolerate intolerance!

114 Ward Cleaver  4/08/08 10:55:06 am reply quote

re: #85 BabbaZee

AHHAA!

You get those speakers going? Didn't bump your head I hope.

116 Fenway_Nation  4/08/08 10:55:20 am reply quote