Posted on 05/22/2012 1:32:00 PM PDT by servo1969
Is Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, a 1978 case rejecting academic racial quotas, the smoking gun behind Obama’s Kenyan identity? *UPDATED*
Barack Obama has kept carefully hidden all of his college records. Many of us have assumed that this secrecy is because those papers show that he took nothing but Leftist Mickey Mouse classes and ended up with lousy grades.
Now that we know that Obama marketed himself to publishers as a Kenyan, though, we’re beginning to suspect that the papers hide, not only academic mediocrity, but the same Kenyan identity Obama was using to market himself in the publishing world. The question, of course, is why would Obama pretend to be African? After all, when it came to college admissions, wasn’t being black good enough for affirmative action purposes?
Normally, in the years since the Civil Rights movement, the answer would be “Yes, being half-black (not half-white, but half-black) should have given Obama the leg-up he needed to parlay mediocre grades and a drug habit into a shiny diploma from one of America’s best institutions of higher education.” Obama’s problem, though, was that he came of age at a very specific time in the annals of affirmative action. To appreciate this, you have to know that Obama, who graduated from high school in 1979, must have started looking at colleges in 1978.
When it comes to college admissions, 1978 isn’t just any year. It’s a very special year. It was the year that the Supreme Court decided Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) 438 U.S. 265.
Allan Bakke was a young man with an excellent academic record, who nevertheless got turned down by 12 medical schools. When he applied to the medical school at UC Davis, and was again rejected, he learned that he had almost certainly lost out on the opportunity to attend that medical school because UC had set a quota for admitting non-white people in order to meet the University’s “diversity” requirements. Bakke sued. In a deeply fragmented decision, the Supreme Court held that this race-based admission process was unconstitutional.
With that decision, Obama, who was a self-confessed slacker in high school, suddenly lost his e-ticket to a good college. He couldn’t know then (nor would it have mattered) that the various concurrences in this deeply divided opinion would eventually open the door to colleges and universities making race a “factor” in admission, so much so that this “factor-ness” eventually created a whole new quota system.
My best guess is that, denied an opportunity to use quota systems to parlay a lousy academic record into a quality college admission, Obama searched around for other means of bypassing his academic failings. It was this search that led him to announce that he was Kenyan. I’m sure that a certain amount of digging will reveal that, just when the Bakke decision came down, American universities were engaged in some sort of pro-active policy involving increasing the number of African nationals on America’s college campuses. Obama was happy to oblige the universities in this effort by co-opting his father’s nationality, and burying the fact that he was a garden-variety American black kid.
There’s the nexus — In 1978, Obama, who already then was willing to lie to achieve his goals, created a false identity to deal with the changes the Bakke decision wrought on college admissions.
UPDATE: This isn’t so much an “update,” as it is further thoughts. Although this post might explain why Obama did what he did, it’s really less of a post about Obama himself than it as an indictment showing the rot in the whole race/affirmative action system.
I actually came at the theory bass ackwards, when I was writing about the commonality between Warren and Obama. I began by looking at affirmative action’s origins as a well-intentioned paving stone on the road to Hell. In the beginning, do-gooders felt that it made sense to give the then-current generation of blacks a leg up, rather than making them wait the two to three generations it took other disenfranchised people (Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Jewish immigrants, etc.) to “make it” in America. After all, we had forced upon these blacks their sufferings, and it was up to us to fix it, and to fix it quickly.
Once it affirmative action became institutionalized, however, it inevitably became corrupt. From the institution’s side, it was a numbers game and a way to boast about liberal credibility, irrespective of whether the student or employee benefiting actually suffered handicaps from his or her race. (Witness the way Harvard milked Elizabeth Warren’s Native Americanism, despite the fact that, even if true, it never handicapped her upbringing or denied her educational opportunities.)
From the point of view of ordinary Americans who were willing to say anything to advance, it became a ginormous loophole. For example, back in the 1970s, I knew a rich Jewish girl with average grades who got into Lowell, San Francisco’s academic high school, by using a dark complexion and a fake accent (~) on her lily-white name to pretend to be Hispanic. Fearing a charge of racism, the district caved and let her in, despite the fact that other students who did not run from their white heritage had better grades. Elizabeth Warren is not the first to play this game.
Thinking about this history, I asked myself why Obama didn’t just leverage himself through the system based upon his being half-black? Why did he have to be African? It was those high school memories that let me to the answer. Like me, Barack Obama, who is almost exactly my age, graduated in the shadow of Bakke. It didn’t affect me, but it sure as heck must have affected him.
Standing alone, my Bakke theory does nothing more than prove, once more, that Obama lies, which is something we’ve seen in real time over the last 3.5 years. Nevertheless, I think this theory has a larger utility insofar as it lays bare one of the rotten pillars of the Leftist race hustlers.
Darn sure is, isn't it. Is there some way to sue Pelosi for fraud since she's (supposedly) the one that signed the certification for the DNC that O was a properly eligible candidate?
What I really want to know is it has been reported here Obama has a CT SS#? How do we know this?
If true this is the roaring blaze no one seems to care about! What am I missing?
If our representatives were doing their job we’d probably be seeing Nancy sharing a cell with John Edwards
not a bad theory...just might be true
Who would do this to cover up grades (as if they meant anything 30 years later?)
They did when Bush was running.
In 2008, the wife made me read a long article in Vanity Fair magazine. The article which was a dozen or twenty pages in length happened to be the most well researched account of system manipulation by the Kennedy clan relative to the DNC selecting Obama to be the party standard bearer for the 2008 election.
Fascinating read which has since been scrubbed from the Vanity Fair archives. It was the Kennedy’s and Pelosi we can thank for this cluster screw job, a ruined economy, Great Depression level misery index, etc.
Think how nervous all his co-conspirators, handlers, backers, apologists, and enablers must be getting as the vetting bombshells slowly come out. The ruling elite need him gone ASAP before the whole sorry story becomes undeniable. Once he's out, they plan to sweep all the unanswered questions under the rug.
‘one has to provide all kinds of documentation.”
Like an Indonesian passport and adoption papers?
yes Barack could pull it off, if he had some stateside help.
I view this article as a thinly veiled effort to justify Obama’s eligibility by making him guilty of lying to conceal his American birthplace to get into college. I don’t buy it. There is too much OTHER anecdotal evidence pointing to a Kenyan birth: the shrines erected in his Kenyan birth city, the chance remark of his wife of his Kenyan homeland, the testimony of his family, the numerous publications that are found in the web archives, and his admission to Alan Keyes in a debate during his senate race that he was born in Kenya.
This all started with Private Investigator Susan Daniels who fell upon this. Here's how it started and how it was found...
Thanks for that, but believe it or not I’m still in dino dialup land! A 30 minute YT video takes hours to watch!
An Indonesian passport to prove Kenyan citizenship in order to get into a U.S. university as a foreigner?
Now I've heard everything.
Maybe this is Obama's strategy: Refuse to disclose the truth, and people will forever be speculating about your background.
If BO was a Republican, someone (probably dozens of someones) would have asked him by now a very simple question requiring no more than a “yes” or “no” answer: “Have you ever applied for any educational position or monetary assistance as a foreign student”?
But I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for the butt-lickers in the MSM to do anything that obvious.
Susan Daniels found out that Obama’s Conneticut SSN (which is odd because he lived in Hawaii at the time it was issued around 1980) was issued to a person born in 1890 in 1977. Most likely this elderly person needed healthcare and that’s why the elderly person needed a social security card so late in life. Most likely this person died not long after getting the SSN.
It is common that identity thieves target the elderly for SS numbers as they know they will not be around much longer.
Now Obama is using it.
Or a federal grand jury seated for any other purpose can choose to ignore the direction of the federal prosecutor and decide to investigate this on their own. Contrary to popular believe, grand juries do not have to limit themselves to cases presented by the prosecution. They can investigate any crime they wish without the consent of the prosecution.
You ain’t no dummy. What you say is right on the money.
“popular believe” should have read “popular belief”.
Smoke, Mirrors, Chaos, Confusion, conflation ... it all works because modern day Americans are apparently too stupid to figure out that the cause of a mound of hosshiite is a hoss.
Obammy’s Granny was a first-rate fraud...handled all sorts of Documents at her Hawaiian job. Not even a certificate of death to be found for Stanley Ann, either, and her SS, still in circulation after last election, info has probably been scrubbed by now, but in some of OUR archives.
If one had backing by folks like Ayers and Dohrn, plus identity thieves’ info, then yes, a mediocre student could get admitted and guided along the path.
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