tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post8223905582775688584..comments2024-02-25T09:45:48.931-05:00Comments on Lally's Alley: WHITE PRIVILEGE PERSONIFIEDLallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-74129877672779097492014-12-03T02:24:36.342-05:002014-12-03T02:24:36.342-05:00Michael and Tom:
What I'm suggesting is that ...Michael and Tom:<br /><br />What I'm suggesting is that there are different ways of looking at this scene.<br /><br />Tom, you question whether we can "know" what the girls are thinking.<br /><br />We obviously can't. My impression of Obama and his family is that they don't particularly want slavishly to over-subscribe to the privilege of the station; they aren't idolatrous. I think they're just like the Bush girls: They're teenagers, they don't necessarily like all the media glitz and officialdom. Maybe they really don't like to be sweet little girls. Maybe they want to say "fuck all this pretense and showtime". For Christ's sake, they're teenagers in 2014. <br /><br />Give them some space for god's sake. Don't put them on pedestals and smarm over them. <br /><br />I'm not supporting a criticism of them. Neither am I trying to politicize an observation. Either way. <br /><br />Who's being racist? Look in the mirror!Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-69055744621223224882014-12-02T17:33:16.894-05:002014-12-02T17:33:16.894-05:00Curtis:
"The Obama girls are probably typica...Curtis:<br /><br />"The Obama girls are probably typical, in that they don't "want" to display respect and courtesy, believing that these qualities are passé and "unworthy" of them. They're just too cool to be thought mannerly."<br /><br />Really? And how do you come by this "knowledge."<br /><br />~ WillyAlamedaTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01623796440779934437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-19273993075536284662014-12-02T11:51:39.535-05:002014-12-02T11:51:39.535-05:00The girls looked beautiful and for most of the cer...The girls looked beautiful and for most of the ceremony were engaged and had lovely smiles etc. but for a few seconds they looked bored or distracted. There was no reason to criticize them at all and I noticed you don't address what the Republican operative wrote about them and their parents that was so completely disrespectful, hateful and UNTRUE (as well as race based since I doubt she would have said white teenagers dressed so normally were looking for a "spot at the bar" etc.). Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-79344383813125301232014-12-02T11:40:31.638-05:002014-12-02T11:40:31.638-05:00Michael:
I'm not sure I would politicize this...Michael:<br /><br />I'm not sure I would politicize this in quite the way you have.<br /><br />I think the deeper point is that the younger generation has become so glib and disaffected by the new "social media" of quick hits and free-floating disdain and superciliousness that they can't even gird up for a Presidential photo-op. <br /><br />The Obama girls are probably typical, in that they don't "want" to display respect and courtesy, believing that these qualities are passé and "unworthy" of them. They're just too cool to be thought mannerly. <br /><br />I'm not putting the girls down, just suggesting that there's a deeper point here than attacking the "white woman" for insensitivity.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.com