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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Funny how her heart doesn’t break for Asians that are told that they are excluded BECAUSE of their race.
You cannot discriminate in favor of someone based on race, without discriminating against someone else based on race.
Michelle Obama, like most woke race baiters, including beneficiaries of race based discrimination, are actually heartless.
If one can be crushed that easily, don’t go to college.
Was she gently caressing her Turnips again?
I still recall Michelle being interviewed in her vegetable garden at the White House, during Obamas’ second term.
Michelle was showing off some of the produce.
She held this huge purple turnip up to her face and rubbed her cheek against it, the way a purring cat would rub against their owner’s knee.
In short, we weren’t good enough to make it without racist policy
Skin color is the only thing that matters to this blithering moron.
Kamala is the epitome of affirmative action.
i don’t think she’s the friendly sort. never hear about her and friends etc
Ashamed she must be....
I had to work my way through college. I didn’t get her magic money
She doesn’t need to tell us, we all saw that “dissertation” she wrote, we all know how Affirmative Action benefited her.
I’m sure affact had nothing to do with her getting those cushy jobs after she got out of Princeton.
It’s why she had a College experience.....
Otherwise totally intellectually unqualified.
“Big Mike” pukes up another line of BULL SHIT!
She likes free handouts for black grifters such as herself
I’d bet both her and Barack attended most of their college years at the expense of us white folks.
Fweedom
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