Congratulations to Sasha Obama on her graduation from USC

 Twitter informed RantWoman that today Sasha Obama graduated from USC.

Black Wall Street Times article

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RantWoman mostly encourages readers to do a little of your own celebrity chasing. 

One of the videos RantWoman found talked about the Obama sisters doing a lot of behind the scenes organizing for Black Lives Matter! 

Yes!

Full disclosure: RantWoman and the future Mrs. Obama graduated from the same college the same year. What Michelle Obama writes about this in her book Becoming rings true for RantWoman. There is a part about her freshman year roommate's mother throwing a fit and getting her daughter moved second semester to a single. RantWoman wishes that part were not true and sadly is not surprised. Probably that episode lurks along with many others in Michelle's experiences.

RantWoman has been resisting the temptation to post something more public wondering what Michelle remembers of her college graduation.

See, during finals week, that year's incarnation of an anti-apartheid divestment protest had a sit-in. RantWoman does not remember the names of all 89 people who participated; RantWoman imagines that if the future Mrs. Obama had participated she would have written about it in her book. The 30 or so seniors who participated all graduated on disciplinary probation. Some of them, though not RantWoman, also graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

One of the meanings of privilege is when a Black student called RantWoman before the sit-in. He voiced strong support for the event, but could not participate because he had received an ROTC scholarship and did not want to do anything to endanger his commissioning as an officer upon graduation.

(Everyone whose heads might melt on mention of the above combination of circumstances, cope. RantWoman is happy to dialogue further.)

Anyway, by graduation, legal charges had been dropped but people still wore black armbands and carried black balloons to recognize the harm of apartheid.

Ironically, graduates of that year who had all learned to read with Dr. Seuss voted to award him an honorary degree; RantWoman assuredly would not rescind the honorary degree even though much information has emerged about Theodore Seuss Geisel's racist views.

RantWoman does not want all of this to be a downer after graduation buzz. Perhaps the point is there is still so much work to do and the Obama family, all of them are powerful forces to continue to do it.