 Theola Labbe, Washington Post |
Posted on 07/20/2008 7:19:24 PM PDT by SJackson
It devalues the true merit and hard work of those who achieved on their own and would have achieved in any case regardless of the "free ride".
Friend of mine is an excellent lawyer, tries a case as well as any litigator in Atlanta. But because he's black, everybody assumes that he got his Ivy League diploma, his law degree, and his position in a major Atlanta law firm just because of his skin color.
He hates affirmative action because it makes him look like a fool.
I never thought that I would see a spouse of a presidential candidate who was more of a radical, narcissistic, arrogant, hubristic, self-entitled, and maddening solipsist than Hilary Clinton. To the nation’s dismay, I think we have found her in Michelle Obama. She is the loose cannon Benito Mussolini face of liberal fascism that Barack Hussein Obama is so careful to hide. Barack Obama is more practiced at keeping the mask up. But in the liberal Hyde Park ghetto that she lives in Chicago, attending cocktail parties with her coterie of liberal U of C academics, Black South Side DemonRat pols, public sector sinecures, NGO flacks and liberal Sun Times columnists, EVERBODY she knows thinks and feels this way.
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama’s resentments toward her country and its citizens were undoubtedly nourished by the effect that her set-aside affirmative action appointment to Princeton had on her. It would appear that she was unable to reconcile her black cultural nationalist/separatist philosophy with her tenure at Princeton, a place for which she was wholly unsuited by dint of preparation and talent, if her poorly written senior thesis is any indication. Rather than appreciating the AA slack cut her by the lib profs, she chose to lash out at what she saw as condescension and maybe some pity from them. She felt that she didn’t belong and she probably didn’t, but her racial sensitivity antenna read racism and bigotry rather that contemptuous pity. Her artificially inflated ego couldn’t stand that and she has mutated an enormous shoulder chip ever since.
Now we can only hope that the Barack He who must not be middle named Obama campaign does not muzzle her and deprive the GOP of a priceless asset. But from what I hear that is a dangerous proposition for any worker in that campaign. She appears to be as unmanageable and ornery as the Hildabeast.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JC04Aa01.html
It's so true.
Exactly. I come from very a un-Ivy League background (Southwest Missouri farmer with a State U. degree) but I attended an Ivy League law school. I occasionally felt out of place, e.g. the first time I heard a discussion regarding NYC taxi cab medallions--I didn't know what a taxi cab medallion was. But I never doubted that I deserved to be there, because I got in on my merits--my LSAT and GPA were above the school averages. After a while, I also noticed that my classmates from NYC, Boston, DC, etc. were much more ignorant of flyover county than we flyover types were about the East Coast.
Noted.
Really smart people learn a basic principle---Life can be unfair, no matter who you are.
What I find funny is that these whining Ivy Leaguers sit around polishing the turds of their discontent and somehow are able to sell their tales of woe to poor, beaten down blacks out here in America! Very few of us—black or white—have anything in common with the vultures of upper education.
My husband-to-be followed me up there to keep the Princeton men in line, and he amused himself by egging them on and baiting them with outrageous lies. More than one of my friends took me aside and asked me how I could date such an awful man. When I told them he was pulling their legs, they didn't believe me.
Actually a White couple with their accomplishments would only have made the papers if the were ratted out by co-conspirators.
"mostly white crowd"
"white counterparts"
"Black Ivy," sisters and brothers"
"accept or reject your race"
"But some of us still decide to go to "white" schools"
"we're looking for an advantage, and we have particular reason to think that we may need one"
"lily-white Princeton"
"I expected to feel equal to my white peers..... But I kept noticing small differences between me and the white students that were hard to ignore: clusters of freshmen who were already friends because they had spent years together at prep schools I had never heard of; questions about my hair, motivated by utter bafflement about the fact that I didn't wash it every day; complete, galling ignorance about Haiti.
"I spent a fair amount of time at the Black Table"
"secretly wondering whether I was being branded a traitor for choosing not to sit with my own people"
I sense a pattern here but I can't quite grasp it...
This woman sure as hell makes me glad that I wasn't born black and achieved sucess. Appears that the chips on her and michelle's shoulders are a millstone around their necks.
Why is it that accomplished “people of color” who are conservative don’t seem to feel the need to cry racism whenever they are not instantly recognized?
Affirmative action has had a couple of serious consequences as noted by other posters: first, the accomplishments of blacks are suspect because one doesn’t know if they got where they are by AA or by merit; second, AA tends to promote beneficiaries to places they don’t really belong, as noted so well by Thomas Sowell. Where a black college student might excel in one university, at any ivy league university he or she might be seriously struggling and end up mediocre at best. Sowell feels this does the black beneficiary little good.
As to the inferiority complex of Michelle, the problem is she probably knows, as everyone else knows, that Barack is the presidential affirmative action candidate. Anyone else with his resume would not even be considered by the Democratic Party, and he bumped off other candidates who have paid the price through decades of political service, who supported other candidates ahead of them in line, and who carefully cultivated their own track, only to be pushed aside first by the first woman candidate, then the first serious black candidate. Of course the Obamas feel insecure about where they are, knowing they truly did not accomplish it on their own.
“This writer is NOT an African-American.”
If she’s black, and an American, she’s African-American.
Of course, if her parents had immigrated to Canada, she’d be an African-American-Canadian, according to some newspapers.
What DMZFrank said is SO right, I can’t add a thing.
Please note she never mentions the quality of the education as a determining factor.
Please note she never mentions the quality of the education as a determining factor.
Theola Labbe, Washington Post |
What is it with these people? Do they think that they, alone, are ever insulted?
Everywhere I’ve gone, military or industrial facilities, I’ve had to prove I can do the job. As a woman in male dominated establishments, it was to be expected. But truly, this is consistent just about everywhere.
Liberals just don’t get it.
No, in this country, making something -- a product or service -- that other people want to buy is the key to success. Hard work, study, and persistence doesn't help much if your hard work study, and persistence produces only pointless drivel.
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