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To: Sloth
Gates, an intellectual drawn back into the arena

SNIP

" To his eventual embarrassment, he wrote in his Yale application:

"As always, whitey now sits in judgment of me, preparing to cast my fate. It is your decision either to let me blow with the wind as a nonentity or to encourage the development of self. Allow me to prove myself."

He was substantial enough to get into Yale anyway, politicized enough to protest racism and the Vietnam War, but never so disheartened by his country that he didn't consider himself a part of it. "

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81 posted on 07/27/2009 10:29:16 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

OK I can’t tell you how much it angers me that someone could write that on their application to Yale and be accepted, rather than being referred maybe for mental help. Oy.


111 posted on 07/27/2009 11:11:19 AM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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