Posted on 06/29/2023 4:58:32 PM PDT by simpson96
Former first lady Michelle Obama spoke out about the Supreme Court’s Thursday ruling against affirmative action, recalling her own struggle (snip)
“So often, we just accept that money, power, and privilege are perfectly justifiable forms of affirmative action, while kids growing up like I did are expected to compete when the ground is anything but level,” Michelle Obama wrote in her statement. “So today, my heart breaks for any young person out there who’s wondering what their future holds — and what kinds of chances will be open to them.” (snip)
The former first lady recalled her experience as one of the few Black students on campus during her undergraduate years at Princeton University, explaining that she sometimes questioned if people assumed she had only been accepted because of affirmative action policies. But over time, she said, she and other students of color showed that they, too, belonged in elite academic environments. While the policy of affirmative action “wasn’t perfect,” she wrote, it helped provide “new ladders of opportunity for those who, throughout our history, have too often been denied a chance to show how fast they can climb.”
The court’s gutting of affirmative action programs, Michelle Obama wrote, was a reminder of not only the importance of policies that reflect principles of equity and fairness, but also the importance of making “those values real in all of our schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods.”
Barack Obama echoed this sentiment in a briefer statement, writing that while the policy of affirmative action had its flaws, “it allowed generations of students like Michelle and me to prove we belonged.”
“Now it’s up to all of us to give young people the opportunities they deserve — and help students everywhere benefit from new perspectives,” the former president wrote.
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You mean, like, 'Get in their faces'?
Was she speaking from one of her mansions?
Like some get special perks just for having darker skin?
The men’s football and basketball teams wanted her to play.
I want her to address the Big Mike rumors. Maybe have a random independent doctor and 5 witnesses watch the exam. LOL
Yet she makes no mention of those people who are crushed under the boot of Affirmative Action.
I wonder who wrote that for her.
I was born a poor black child…
“Struggle” my ass. Lighten up Mooch. How much do you have in your nest egg right now? Get a life and STFU.
Isn’t it incredible that this privileged woman writes about herself rather than point to people who really are disadvantaged? What a creep.
“Shruggle”.
For her to make an issue about her struggles is a joke. She stated she hates America even after all America has done to support her passive efforts to succeed, she has never apologized to the American People.
As far as I know, Michelle was a daughter of well connected and wealthy Chicagoan.
So she’s making our point.
The Obama’s love talking about themselves. Whatever the topic is it always revolves around them.
Just an epilogue to her pathetic Senior Thesis.
Not to worry, Moochie; You, Barry and your rented kids will continue to be adored, coddled and sent to the head of the line for the rest of your lives.
Didn’t she fail the bar exam?
If Michelle Obama’s undergrad thesis has not been pulled from the internet, one reading it has proof positive by the elementary school level writing and childlike thinking that Michelle Obama is an affirmative action hire.
“ I direct your attention to Mrs. Obama’s 1985 thesis at Princeton University. Its title (rather limited in scope, given the author and the campus) is ‘Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community.’ To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be ‘read’ at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language.”
— Christopher Hitchens, UK reporter
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