Contessa_Sharra
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- Apr 27, 2008
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As for Wright, Macolm X and those ascribing to permanent victim status, my initial take is sadness. How anyone that went to these meetings/services, could come out with any hope is beyond my powers to comprehend.
The system is stacked against you, you haven't a chance, they'll screw you at every turn, if you manage to succeed, your kids will be screwed. Michelle exemplifies this message, her hope is that with Barack at the helm, it will change. In the mean time, she'll pull down over 300k per year, bitching the whole time.
First, The most important part of the Autobiography of Malcolm is the last part, after he went to Mecca, when he became Malik El Shabazz. He was not at all unhopeful, and he had grown far away from bitterness.
Second, the message is to be aware, to be wary, not too trusting, in other words: P.Y.O.A.
Third, does Michelle Obama pull down $300,000 as a lawyer? With her experience and education, that seems kinda low. Major East Coast city, someone I know is a "digital data specialist", not a lawyer, but works for a law firm, makes sure docs are digitized for the firm, easily available and searchable, etc. Easier to pass "discovery" and all around for suits and whatever if it is all on disk, rather than crates and crates of paper copies. That person gets about $120K plus bennies. For a lawyer, I think $300K would be low, especially for a place like Chicago.
Or is there something new I hadn't heard about? Are First Ladies paid $300K a year now?
General income info:
http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2007/11_blackwhite_isaacs.aspx
http://www.cbcfinc.org/pdf/sobefs.pdf
It would seem to me that if things really are so "equal"....
For one thing, there is this business of a person being an "identifiable minority." A person can change their name to Smith or Jones, and white, no one will ever know, most of the time, that they have other than a Northern European background. Instant acceptance, and certain things are automatically bestowed. However, the skin color is not something one can change.
Job-wise, all that should ever matter is qualifications and ability to do the work, not appearance:
http://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/orsp_shahani-denning_spring03.pdf
Anyway, to lighten it up, here is some "fun" reading.:
http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com/2008/03/stuff-white-people-dont-like.html