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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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Dunning–Kruger effect. She thinks she smarter than the Ivy Leagues. She thinks they fear her massive intellect and unparalleled abilities.
She’s never said or done anything to lead me to believe she’s anything other than a DEI queen. Not a thing.
Surely no human being has ever been treated more shabbily than Michelle Obama.
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Big Mike appears to be "grounded in racism" himself.
Her Senior paper was written SO badly, that it is NOT even on what was once a 5th grade level in a public school, in NYC; let alone what was once required of those going to the ELITE boarding schools ( high schools ), that were one the "feeders" of the Ivies.
There’s never been a First Lady in our Nation’s history who left office with her husband, and did 1/1000 of the complaining that Big Mike has.
She gives Wookies a bad name.
In Michell Obama’s world view, it is not possible that she was given A’s because she is black.
She’s practically illiterate ...
‘Anyone who has read Michelle’s college thesis - a document so illiterate and incoherent that it was written, as Christopher Hitchens put it, in “no known language” - will chuckle heartily at this one,’ he wrote in a Facebook post.
That's a very low bar.
Who?
Wait, what?
Who here read her disaster of a senior thesis from her time at Princeton?
This person is never happy.
Big Mike is such a grifter like his husband Bathhouse Barry.
Big Mike is just whining for attention as usual.
Indeed.
Exactly.
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