Like That “Diversity” a Little Less When It’s Engineered in Front of Your Face, Do Ya?
Some of the Obama crowd sees Diversity in Action:
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.”
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Witnessing the engineering of identity politics up close must be a huge shock to some of these idealistic college kids.
Comment by A. Weasel — April 8, 2008 @ 12:23 pm
Just don’t call any of them monkeys.
I call everybody a monkey. It’s a term of endearment. I call my daughter a monkey. I call my cat a monkey. Sure, I should be more imaginative, but when did that get to be a racist term?
Comment by Anne — April 10, 2008 @ 9:42 am