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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."

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; english; grievance; michelle; moochelle; princeton; test; thesis; turgid
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To: MtnClimber

Any article that refers to that thing as a woman has already lost me. Until the Ellen Degeneres workout video can be believably explained, ‘Michelle’ is a big black dude with a penis and TESTICLES.


21 posted on 07/14/2020 7:43:50 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: cweese
LOL! Ain't jive a known language?

Black Jive Matters.

22 posted on 07/14/2020 7:49:58 AM PDT by Migraine ( Liberalism is great (until it happens to YOU).)
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To: treetopsandroofs

LOL!! Classic!


23 posted on 07/14/2020 7:53:43 AM PDT by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: Migraine

Would love to see some of the BLM street murals changed to that!!


24 posted on 07/14/2020 7:54:22 AM PDT by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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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.

It's amazing how being dumb and not testing well go hand in hand.

25 posted on 07/14/2020 7:56:24 AM PDT by KevinB (Quite literally, whatever the Left touches it ruins.)
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To: MtnClimber

I remember reading that paper. Stunning, to me, that one could write a senior thesis about one’s own selfish sadness. The paper is a joke - it is all about Michelle’s personal feelings.


26 posted on 07/14/2020 7:57:55 AM PDT by golux
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To: chiller
That’s precisely what AA does-—rob the benefactor of the pride of true accomplishment

It also robs minorities who actually earn their way to the top of respect for their accomplishments since people will usually assume they are only where they are due to AA.

27 posted on 07/14/2020 8:02:23 AM PDT by KevinB (Quite literally, whatever the Left touches it ruins.)
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To: MtnClimber

And here I thought the tranny operation screwed him up.


28 posted on 07/14/2020 8:03:52 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Systemic liberalism is the problem.)
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To: golux
The paper is a joke - it is all about Michelle’s personal feelings.

Narcissism is hard for anyone except the narcissist to understand. In her case, the admiration is misplaced.

29 posted on 07/14/2020 8:37:24 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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To: MtnClimber

My brother lives in a college town and sends me links to articles by all the “black” undergraduate and graduate vandals and interlopers.

They all have, or are working towards, completely worthless degrees:

African American studies

Native American studies

Women’s studies

Mass communication

Creative writing

Sociology

Theater and Dance

and so on

It’s a State school, but these young adults are from states far away. I wonder if they’re actually paying “out of state” tuition rates. How much debt are they acquiring?

Since COVID happened, and the school went online or otherwise shut down, these losers have nothing to do as a lot of businesses near the campus shut down. The losers march around town, almost nightly, intimidating the local white leftist NPR listening hippies.

WE ARE FUNDING THIS. One way or the other. A lot of people say Soros is funding some of this, and that may be, but the subsidies to higher education for worthless degrees, and allowing kids to become massively indebted to get them, is a crime against the taxpayers.


30 posted on 07/14/2020 8:37:56 AM PDT by UncleDenny77
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To: woodbutcher1963

No students at Columbia had Obama in any of their classes. His voice, height, and skin color would have been noticed immediately. He was accepted at Occidental as a foreign student, and into Harvard due to a $10 million gift from the Saudi Royal family.


31 posted on 07/14/2020 9:05:09 AM PDT by bIlluminati (Defund the Left. Shrink the U.S. Federal government to 1897 levels.)
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To: woodbutcher1963
Barak studied Political Science at Columbia. However even George Stephonopolis(same major/same time) does not recall him being in any of his classes

Years ago, there was a Libertarian writer who said the same thing. He went to Columbia, same time period, same major -- never saw Obama. He said that he had asked other members of that class/major and none of them ever saw him there either.

32 posted on 07/14/2020 9:12:36 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: woodbutcher1963

Michelle got into Princeton and Harvard Law not just because she is black, but also because her daddy was a politically connected Alderman in Chicago.

I read her Princeton Senior Thesis. She would have gotten a ‘D’ in high school composition class. I temporarily lost about 10 IQ points after reading it; but I recovered.

She was hired by a big Chicago law firm after graduating from Harvard law, and was told she needed to leave the firm because of her substandard performance after 2-3 years. Same for Barack, who was at the same firm.

Hitchens was actually being kind in his assessment of Michelle’s writing ability.


33 posted on 07/14/2020 9:14:29 AM PDT by WASCWatch
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To: cweese
This is because it wasn't written in any known language."

I remember when Obama was first running for POTUS. The media was falling over themselves to talk about how intelligent he was and he was a great speaker.

Well, I will find interesting articles to read to my hubby, and there was one where Obama was frequently quoted.

As I was reading the excerpts from Obama's book, my husband was looking at me like, "what did I do to deserve this torture?" It was terrible, he is a terrible writer. Also, he is a "great" speaker, if you like someone who is reading from 3 different teleprompters in a droning voice. Hubby always would go, "teleprompter to the right, teleprompter center, teleprompter to the left" whenever Obama was giving a speech. It drove him nuts.

34 posted on 07/14/2020 9:17:27 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: woodbutcher1963
Why was he promoted to the head of Harvard Law Review. What were his published works

I read someplace, at the time of his first run, that he was President of Harvard Law Review; but, he never published an article the entire time. The article stated that this is actually unheard of for a President of the Harvard Law Review.

35 posted on 07/14/2020 9:21:15 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: LibertarianLiz
I read someplace, at the time of his first run, that he was President of Harvard Law Review; but, he never published an article the entire time. The article stated that this is actually unheard of for a President of the Harvard Law Review.

He didn't earn his way onto the Harvard Law Review, much less into its presidency.

36 posted on 07/14/2020 9:43:43 AM PDT by KevinB (Quite literally, whatever the Left touches it ruins.)
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To: LibertarianLiz
... President of Harvard Law Review; but, he never published an article the entire time.

FWIR, the title of "President" is "reserved" for minorities, regardless of their legal prowess, while the position of "Editor" is theoretically performance-based.

37 posted on 07/14/2020 9:58:36 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: MtnClimber

38 posted on 07/14/2020 10:04:22 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: LibertarianLiz

That was Wayne Root who ran on the LP presidential ticket. I read his article at the time but don’t have a link.


39 posted on 07/14/2020 10:05:19 AM PDT by darkangel82
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To: WASCWatch
I read it at the time.

It was really thin, maybe a dozen pages with lots of white space (HRC's was pretty dense, not to mention padded with "Doonesbury" panels at the end), and the only thing I remember is she appeared to be forcing whites to associate with blacks as demonstrated by a graph or two.

In letting MRO in, Princeton must have thought they were making up for WW's progressive racism. I'm sure there were more qualified minorities. (Had an Asian housemate that was a Princeton grad in engineering.)

40 posted on 07/14/2020 10:25:15 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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