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Get Me More White People

By wt

Obama is racially profiling his followers now.

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.?

Wow. Forcibly relocating Asians? Nice message, guys.

And it's going to look so pretty? What will look pretty? All of the skin colors, strategically placed in the crowd?

Full post as published by Expressio Unius on April 11, 2008 (boomark / email).