Michelle Obama: Kind of a hoodrat?

Toure, aka the legendary SackBeast, did this silly story in New York magazine about how the Obamas might be vacationing on Martha's Vineyard, which has had its share of race issues. There's a separate part of the island for black people, as seen in the classic film the Inkwell, and I guess there's also some division within the black community. Rich black people don't want less-rich black people coming around and embarrassing them around rich white people.

Which is certainly understandable. Back in the late '90s, my parents let my uncle get married at their house, and their neighbors still look at them a bit funny.

Towards the very end of SackBeast's piece (no Boutros), there's a quote from someone who's afraid the first lady might not get along well on Martha's Vineyard. Because she's not classy enough. He/She (it's probably a she, right?) even goes so far as to call Michelle a "ghetto girl."

And I quote:

At the same time, there’s also a bit of wariness among the wealthiest ones, an uncertainty whether Obama will affirm them. “Obama is more a man of the people,” says a Vineyarder who’s part of black high society. “He doesn’t seem to identify with affluent black people. His wife definitely doesn’t; she is basically a ghetto girl. That’s what she says—I’m just being sociological. She grew up in the same place Jennifer Hudson did. She hasn’t reached out to the social community of Washington, and people are waiting to see what they’ll do about that.”

Roffle.

For what it's worth, I'll point out that Michelle Obama has been on her a-game. Every once in a while she'll have a stank look on her face, but I haven't heard her come out the side of her neck with anything too ridiculous since the election, when she kept referring to Barack as "the brother" and talking about how he might get shot while putting gas in his car, as if that had anything to do with the election. And that's been going on a year ago. As Stasson Goines, himself a classy black man, would say, that's an old crime!

Checkit: Black and White on Martha’s Vineyard [New York]