More Maggie Betts

Here she is again with Barbara Bush as well as Claire Danes at a Zac Posen party. I can not tell you how many points she looses off the top for the Bush connection. And, I must say, she and I have just been introduced (well over the google search obviously), but she just strikes me as that girl...the token who tries so much to pretend she is one of them. You know her, the one who as soon as one of us enters the room turns her back as some way to protect her white friend territory. And this impression is based solely on her hair...I mean is it ever done?

Who is Maggie Betts?

So Sloane, you know I am forever trying to figure out the black people that occupy places in the white social world. I mean I am well versed on those in the Black bougie set - I mean Sag Harbor, Jack & Jill, Martha's Vineyard, The Links...all these things are one big clusterfuck that takes you at birth and never lets you go until you are dead. So to find out about the other side, those who stay safely away from our world, and stick to the 10021 set is always so interesting to me. Namely because this world tends to be pretty homogeneous, and to put it bluntly - white. So here we have Maggie Betts. According to NY Mag she is "daughter of Roland Betts, the developer of Chelsea Piers and President Bush's closest New York connection". (Not to get off track, but I had no idea a Black man is behind Chelsea Piers) And from the pic above you can see she is BFF with the Bush daughters. She is also very much apart of the social set, pictured below with Tinsely Mortimer and friends at a benefit held in the Turks & Caicos recently. So I guess daddy's money + republican + friends of Bush = entrance into the social set? Well add her name to the list of Black socialites including Genevieve Jones, Rachel Roy, and Susan Fales Hill.
Yours in social investigation,
Chase.