[Verginius Rufus]

It's like when he was made President of the Harvard Law Review (by changing the rules--until then it was the most accomplished law student, but they had never had a black president so they picked him as the most accomplished black law student at the time), but then didn't do any of the work, left that all to the number 2 guy.

He gets the Nobel Peace Prize without doing anything to earn it--and then snubs the king of Norway when he's over there to pick up his prize. He goes to Copenhagen to tell them he'd really like them to award the Olympic Games to Chicago, and is mystified when Chicago is turned down.

The idea of earned achievements is foreign to him.

[A_perfect_lady]

The idea of earned achievements is foreign to him.

Yes. It's rather like all his life he's been awarded simply for showing up black and articulate.