“We Need More White People”

Ha! (link)

From the account in Carnegie Mellon’s paper, the Tartan, of a Michelle Obama event in Pittsburgh:

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.”

I’ve got an idea of where they can get some more white people: Obama’s mother’s side of the family, the Dunhams. (link)

CHICAGO — If anyone else running for president locked his granny away and refused to allow her to be seen, would the media complain? You betcha.

But America’s media have supinely allowed Barry Obama to pretend he has no white relatives. He has paraded his step-grandmother in Kenya, who never saw him until the 1980s, as his “granny,” and locked the grandmother who actually raised him away in a closet.

Now, the Chicago Tribune reports “the Obama campaign declined to make [his white grandmother] available.”

I’m just sayin’…

  • That American Chap

    April 15th, 2008

    For what it’s worth, ALL campaigns do this. I constantly see GOPers bending over backwards to see that the lone black face in the audience is prominently featured. All politicians, Left and Right, are swine.

  • BadIdeaGuy

    April 15th, 2008

    You’re probably right, but it’s still funny.

  • G.I.N. President and CEO

    April 15th, 2008

    Could it be that I actually agree with TAC on something? All pols are swine?

    I would also agree majority of campaigns do this. However, I don’t ever think it’s been so blatantly thrown in the face of the media.

  • BadIdeaGuy

    April 15th, 2008

    It’d be funny if McCain’s campaign said “no more whitehairs” and HRC’s said “no more crazed menopausal womyn”.

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