[aruanan]

The institution made no effort to reach out to me -- a bright and promising student in their midst -- and I had no reason to believe there was a place for me there.

Maybe it was because she wasn't that bright or that promising. This is demonstrated by that very sentence: there is no 'their' when referring to the university and she wasn't in its 'midst' unless she was actually a part of the university instead of just being on the south side like it was.

[Paladin2]

$300k/yr should help. Maybe she should give some back?

[Huskrrrr]

Still a bitter women after all she has been given by this country.

[wac3rd]

Thank God for White People’s little program called “Affirmative Action” without that, neither you or your husband had the academic prowess to enter elite universities; but due to your skin color, intellect was ignored and somehow social engineering came to the rescue. Now, via a blubbering, lying Marxist press and political correctness, we have a junior league Communist pressing us towards a collective, Socialist Utopia...

[EyeGuy]

“She went on to earn degrees from Princeton and Harvard Law.”

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Which speaks VOLUMES about the validity of those institutions and their hideously overrated educations.

[EggsAckley]

Enough whining Michelle. Believe it or not, it’s NOT always about you.

[Ann Archy]

Michelle is an Affirmative Actioner if I’ve ever seen one!

[what's up]

The institution made no effort to reach out to me -- a bright and promising student in their midst

Omigosh...the hubris.

[ChocChipCookie]

What a narcissist. It’s all about her.

[keepitreal]

"Yet that university never played a meaningful role in my academic development. The institution made no effort to reach out to me -- a bright and promising student in their midst -- and I had no reason to believe there was a place for me there.

Wow. Was it because of your race or because colleges tend not reach out to anyone, unless they apply? I don't see colleges helping the academic development of high school students - that's why they are colleges and not high schools. Why did you deserve any more than what everyone else in the United States had? And so sorry you were treated so badly by the academic community that you only got to go to Princeton for undergrad.

[STONEWALLS]

“The institution made no effort to reach out to me...”

....well there you have it...the classic negro attitude of ‘you owe me Whitey...big time!’

[Adder]

Mayeb...just maybe its all been because of her insufferably miserable and beotchy attitude and not race.

If I was blind and hearing her, thats what I’d think...

[freekitty]

It could be Michelle that you weren’t all that bright and promising.

[Maine Mariner]

Well golly gee, I was the first member in my family to go to college-a state college in MN-none of the IVIES reached out to me. But I did work hard and got accepted into a couple of good graduate schools-including of all places, the University of Chicago.

[matginzac]

Talk about self-serving limelight. “Oh, Bambi, run for Prez so I can get back at all those nasties who didn’t beg for my attendance...” Too bad her union dad didn’t send out some goons to knee-cap the admissions staff...

[manic4organic]

Bitter woman, clinging to Marxism and her hate of America.

[xtinct]

Michelle is a glass half full person.

[FreepShop1]

"Therefore, when it came time for me to apply to college, I never ... considered the university in my own backyard as a viable option." She went on to earn degrees from Princeton and Harvard Law.

Affirmative action programs at Ivy League institutions are huge. A qualified white applicant got rejected for Michelle's "viable option" at Princeton, by her own admission.

[GOPJ]

I lived in Hyde Park many years ago - Michelle Obama is correct on this issue.

[Don Corleone]

The institution made no effort to reach out to me ....

What a monumental EGO!!!