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How Affirmative Action Screwed Up Michelle Obama
American Thinker ^ | 14 Jul, 2020 | Jack Cashill

Posted on 07/14/2020 7:09:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber

In 1985, Michelle Obama presented her senior thesis in the sociology department of Princeton University. Although Michelle drew no such conclusion, the thesis is a stunning indictment of affirmative action. Those who benefited from it, Michelle most notably, may never recover from its sting.

Her thesis reads like a cry for help. "I have found that at Princeton no matter how matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me," she writes, "I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as I really don't belong."

She didn't. Michelle should never have been admitted to Princeton. Thanks to the "numerous opportunities" presented by affirmative action, however, Princeton is where she found herself. "Told by counselors that her SAT scores and her grades weren't good enough for an Ivy League school," writes biographer Christopher Andersen, "Michelle applied to Princeton and Harvard anyway." Sympathetic biographer Liza Mundy writes, "Michelle frequently deplores the modern reliance on test scores, describing herself as a person who did not test well."

She did not write well, either. She even typed badly. Mundy charitably describes the thesis as "dense and turgid." The less charitable Christopher Hitchens observed, "To describe [the thesis] as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be 'read' at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn't written in any known language."

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TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; english; grievance; michelle; moochelle; princeton; test; thesis; turgid
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1 posted on 07/14/2020 7:09:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

It is all the fault of someone with different skin pigment.


2 posted on 07/14/2020 7:11:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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"The less charitable Christopher Hitchens observed, "To describe [the thesis] as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be 'read' at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn't written in any known language."

LOL! Ain't jive a known language?

3 posted on 07/14/2020 7:17:39 AM PDT by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: MtnClimber

Refreshing to read the unvarnished truth.


4 posted on 07/14/2020 7:20:02 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: cweese

“I speak jive!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSLcYQHqFQ


5 posted on 07/14/2020 7:20:56 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: MtnClimber

““Michelle frequently deplores the modern reliance on test scores, describing herself as a person who did not test well.” She did not write well, either. She even typed badly.”

And she has a penis.


6 posted on 07/14/2020 7:21:30 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: MtnClimber

AA does nothing more than screw over more qualified candidates and give blacks a sense of entitlement.


7 posted on 07/14/2020 7:21:36 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: MtnClimber

Affirmative action was a solution that made things worse, typical Leftist program.


8 posted on 07/14/2020 7:22:47 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: MtnClimber

Friggin’ whitey and his devious plans to oppress her with stoopid affirmative action. Look how she’s suffering. WaaaWaaa!


9 posted on 07/14/2020 7:23:28 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: martin_fierro

The fact that she has a penis is not her fault. But it might make her feel like she doesn’t belong.


10 posted on 07/14/2020 7:23:56 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: MtnClimber

She’s so arrogant, she doesn’t even know - or even care, come to think of it - how much Affirmative Action dumbed her down.


11 posted on 07/14/2020 7:24:29 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: MtnClimber

Would never do make it on their own


12 posted on 07/14/2020 7:27:04 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: CodeToad

It also screws up the earnest ones who struggle in colleges above their preparation level, shall we say—and give up being the perfectly fine, mediocre whatever they would have become at a less competitive school.


13 posted on 07/14/2020 7:27:36 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: martin_fierro

Apparently she typed her bachelor thesis with it!


14 posted on 07/14/2020 7:29:56 AM PDT by Reily
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To: MtnClimber
it wasn't written in any known language."

LOLOL!

15 posted on 07/14/2020 7:37:26 AM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: MtnClimber
As a senior at Princeton, for instance, she imagines herself going forward "on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant." In a sense, she never let herself.

And her affirmative action roles never ended - from U. Chicago Hospital to marrying Barack Obama, to becoming First Lady, and ending up with a $one hundred million in the bank and mansions in DC, Chicago and Martha’s Vineyard.

One would think she would now be saying: IS AMERICA GREAT, OR WHAT!?

16 posted on 07/14/2020 7:38:16 AM PDT by PGR88
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That’s precisely what AA does-—rob the benefactor of the pride of true accomplishment, leading to deeply held feelings of inadequacy.


17 posted on 07/14/2020 7:39:09 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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To: MtnClimber

She was definitely out of place. She hated her White professors and pre-judged them no matter what they did. Her words.

She, like her husband, hates this country.


18 posted on 07/14/2020 7:39:54 AM PDT by I want the USA back (BLM is a violent marxist movement designed to overthrow the US constitutional form of government.)
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To: aquila48

IF we could EVER read the truth about her husband, now that would be incredible.

Like how exactly did he get into Columbia? Did he state he was from Indonesia? This would actually makes sense. He lived in Indonesia with his step father and mother for a short period of time. This probably also go him into Occidental College. Although, you do not need to be that smart to get in OC.

Barak studied Political Science at Columbia. However even George Stephonopolis(same major/same time) does not recall him being in any of his classes.

Then Barack got into Harvard Law School. Literally the top law school in the country/world. How did he get into
Harvard? It was not because he graduated Columbia Suma Cum Laude. We can assume this because his transcripts were hidden. If he had great grades, they would have been published. Why was he promoted to the head of Harvard Law Review. What were his published works that people like Alan Dershowitz thought Barack deserved this accomplishment. Alan thought Ted Cruz did. What about Barack.

Finally, Barack became a State of Illinois senator and then elected to the US Senate where he voted present more than any other Senator.

We will never know how Barack got to be President.

At least we are finding out that Michelle was promoted because of her skin color only.


19 posted on 07/14/2020 7:40:56 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: 1Old Pro

Affirmative action was a solution that made things worse, typical Leftist program.


The Great Society
The war on drugs
minimum wage
Welfare
Lower discipline standard on minority
Lower education standard on minority
License for work that should not require license

Basically all the feel good laws of the past 70 years have done nothing but keep minorities in the ghettos.

Racism is alive and well in America but it is the White Liberal progressives that are the racist.


20 posted on 07/14/2020 7:41:04 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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