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"Obama skepticism spreading"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Arrgh. No Obama fan here, but he's referring to a serialization of "Black Like Me" which ran in Sepia magazine.

Took me, oh, five minutes to look it up on Google: "black like me" serialized

Mr. Bruce

3/27/07, 12:29 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Black like Me is about a white man becoming black.

Maybe Obama was thinking about Michael Jackson.

3/27/07, 12:50 AM

Blogger Michael Farris said...

"a Life magazine article about a black man who had tried to whiten his skin through some sort of chemical process"

Black like me was the other way around, a white man who darkened his skin and travelled around, especially in the then segregated south.
It was a hugely influential book. I read it in junior high school IIRC but I don't recall any stories of attempted skin lightening in BLM.
I do vaguely recall reports of intensely uncomfortable hair products meant to straighten black hair but I don't remember if that was in BLM.

3/27/07, 12:55 AM

Anonymous Ken Parker said...

There were a number of Life-like magazines, Pic, Clic, Vue, etc, etc. Sepia was probably one for Blacks, as "sepia" was code for "black" back then. Billy Eckstein was the Sepia Sinatra, for example.

LaVey goes on at length on these publications which are very rare today.

3/27/07, 1:42 AM

Blogger Ambrianne said...

You don't (or at least didn't 20 years ago) have to have a "rap" to get into Eastern colleges as long as you're from a largely rural Western state. That's another quota they have to fill. I remember being in the office of a Middlebury College admissions guy who was trying to make something of a hay-bucking Key Club service project -- "that's so Western!" In my hometown of Boise thanks to checkerboard zoning there are indeed some cows in town, but not enough to justify city kids toting 100-lb. hay bales -- I have no idea where we came up with the project. At any rate the smell of pot in the dorms and the sight of Sugarbush (this is a ski hill?) drove me to the cheap U of Idaho, much to my dad's relief.

3/27/07, 7:43 AM

Anonymous James Kabala said...

Someone (obviously this would have to be a group effort rather than the project of a single person) should comb through the Look archives as the Tribune combed through the Life archives. The idea that the story is completely phony strikes me as still possible. It could have been in a still more obscure publication, but would things like Pic, Clic, or Sepia have made it to a distant U.S. Embassy?

3/27/07, 8:07 AM

Anonymous James Kabala said...

Come to think of it, since they would only be looking at one year's worth of issues (the last year of publication, no less), one person could do it alone, but he would have to know where to find a Look archive.

3/27/07, 9:11 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I agree with the reader's assessment of this (to an extent) being part of the life story that a person writes for themselves for school applications.

The insistence on essays (as opposed to grades or tests scores) combined with the culture of victimization has led thousands (if not millions) of middle-class teenagers to develop their own Raps.

3/27/07, 10:11 AM

Anonymous Iain said...

Anyone else here find Hillary deeply desirable in a schoolmistressy kind of way?

I would love to be spanked on the bare buttocks by her.

3/27/07, 11:49 AM

Anonymous joeo said...

The percentage of people's childhood memories that are partially or wholly fabricated is remarkably high. Every time you retrieve a memory you modify it in some way. It is pretty easy to create a recovered memory in people.

Here is a summary of some of the studies:

http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/sciam.htm

3/27/07, 12:06 PM

Anonymous tommy said...

Maybe he was confusing something he read in Life or Look way back in the day with more recent tabloid accounts of Michael Jackson's lifestyle. ;-)

3/27/07, 4:23 PM

Anonymous tommy said...

Sorry, I should have read the comments before adding my own. I noticed somebody already covered the Michael Jackson angle.

3/27/07, 4:24 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

The story is reminiscent of the old novel "Black No More:"

Amazon.com

This satirical Harlem Renaissance-era novel by black conservative intellectual George S. Schuyler (1895-1977), who wrote for the Pittsburgh Courier and contributed to the NAACP's influential Crisis magazine, is a hilariously insightful treatise on the absurdities of racial identity. Dr. Junius Crookman, a Harlem-based African American physician, mysteriously returns from Germany with a formula that can transform black people into whites. "It looked," Schuyler deadpans, "as though science was to succeed where the Civil War failed." One of the first to enlist Dr. Crookman's services is an insurance salesman named Max Disher, who as the white Matthew Fisher is now free to pursue the white women who once rejected him and otherwise bask in Euro-American social privilege (including a top position in a hate group called the Knights of Nordica). Schuyler unveils the futility of this electro-chemical form of "passing" through the emptiness the Disher/Fisher character encounters in the white cultural world, which doesn't measure up to the Harlem nightlife--revealing the poison behind the notion of wanting to be something you're not. --Eugene Holley Jr.

3/27/07, 6:42 PM

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