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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Barack’s past remains hidden. I hope it comes out at some point in my lifetime.
Wonder how that daughter that went/goes to Harvard does academically? Is she still there?
I still remember seeing him addressing a classroom of elementary students using his Teleprompter.
Right after that there were several cartoons depicting him as the Teleprompter of the United States.
Frankly, the only time I ever found Barak Obama to be both knowledgeable and likeable was when he was in the booth with Joe Buck between innings during the World Series. He actually knew baseball and seemed lie a regular guy. This made sense later when it was leaked out that what he liked to do all the time was watch Sportscenter on ESPN.
Important point.
So, if I’m a minority, do I want the cash —and anything that comes with it—at the cost of feeling inadequate, watched, resented, laughed at in the workplace every second I’m on the job ?
No debate, imho. The stigma would be unbearable.
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