Posted on 05/02/2025 6:35:31 PM PDT by simpson96
A tough first semester at Princeton taught Michelle Obama a career lesson that she's passing down to young professionals.(snip)
As an affirmative action student from Chicago, Obama said, she felt "a little intimidated" by Princeton's Ivy status when she arrived on campus in 1981 despite knowing she'd be underestimated.
After receiving all A's her first semester, she realized her self-doubt was by design. It was based on notions produced by a "world grounded in racism."
"I was like, 'I get this now. You're just trying to get into my head. You're scared of me,'" Obama said.
While there were plenty of other people there due to affirmative action, many wealthy students were able "to gain access to these seats of power that have nothing to do with their raw academic ability," Obama said.
From then on, she said, she stopped worrying about whether or not she deserved to be in powerful spaces. Now, she's trying to save other young adults from falling for the same tactic.
"Do not let these people scam you. This is all a racket," Obama said.
Host Steven Bartlett asked Obama to clarify what she meant by the term.
"That they know more; that they deserve this more than you do. It's just not true," Obama said.
Her revelation that she, as a Black woman, could thrive at an Ivy League school was both infuriating and freeing, she told Bartlett. However, not all teens get the same opportunity to overcome the underestimation, and that's why she wants to pass the lesson along, she said.
"I came out of Princeton just feeling like, 'Let me at 'em,'" Obama said, referring to the obstacles she'd face in the career ahead of her.
In 2023, the US Supreme Court ended affirmative action in college admissions.
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Didn’t she have her law license revoked?
LOL, whether she realizes it or not, she just explained how “affirmative action” policies actually harm those they claim to be helping.
What a victim...what utter bs.
She did her work and got her “reward” of all A’s.
Hey, stupid! That’s how it works...for EVERYONE. You ain’t special...
Nobody is scared of a guy like you.
I have never in my entire life known of a person that has been so entitled, so propped up, so coddled, yet so unappreciative of every single benefit that she has received.
This woman is pure poison.
Her ego exceeds her competence by a significant margin.
She’s very good at patient dumping.
Still not running for President huh?
Agree she sounds like she knows some speech writers and a few agents for hire.
My God. That’s the entire Democrat Party!
Received. No way that she earned them.
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