She didn't graduate from an accredited law school. Kim did the CA Law Office Study Program which qualifies you to take the bar without graduating from law school by studying law under a judge or attorney for four years. No specific curriculum, not specific criteria to graduate beyond number of hours that I can find, etc. This is BS. |
I am biracial and identify as Black. I have no problem telling people my background but I was raised to identify as black and it’s how the world sees me. It’s no different than Bob Marley; he had a white father and identified as black. Or Halle Berry who has a white mother but identifies as Black. This is not a new concept and is very common. |
^^ I’m pp. Also, this is completely off topic so I don’t want to go back and forth in this thread, but feel free to start another one if you want to discuss further. |
If the Kardashians call them black, then I don’t think your overly literal label should take precedence. None of the people I know IRL are fans of the word biracial. All of them refer to themselves as the dominant one dictating their appearance (which tends to be black, Latina, or Asian). |
Fortunately, more Black/AA people no longer follow the White supremacist one-drop rule that was forced upon them by law. |
Really? I don’t think so. It’s a lot of hours actually being exposed to the practice of law and they are supposed to get exams every six months. |
My only problem with this is that she continues to say that she graduated from Law School. She's deliberately skating a fine line where she's not doing enough to be reprimanded by the Bar Association but she's misleading her fans who don't know better into arguing online that she has a degree. Millions of people are online insisting that she graduated from law school, that she has a JD, and that she's a lawyer, when none of those things is true. She even has people claiming that she graduated from Harvard Law School because she craftily included photos of her standing in front of Harvard, and that she had her own ceremony in her backyard so as not to take attention away from her classmates. I don't think KK is dumb. In fact I think she's very bright, and she knows exactly what she is doing. Even CNN's headline says that she graduated from law school. It disturbs me that we live in a world where if you lie enough, people will not only believe you, but argue with people who prefer the truth. |
Really? You think between "parenting" (she has nannies), "homeschooling" (probs has tutors), "working" on her show, and traveling and all the companies she has to promote you honestly think she's working 40 hours a week for a lawyer? And FYI, lawyers generally practice one type of law, MAYYYYYBE two, so that's pretty different than going to law school and learning broadly. You honestly think the lawyer(s?) gave her a truly difficult exam twice a year? Yeah, I don't buy it. |
The CA Bar allows you to take it as many times as you want, so she might pass eventually. She shouldn't even be at this point, since there IS a three-attempt limit to the Baby Bar, and she got an additional chance, "because of Covid". She'll become a member of the Bar at some point, earned or not. Kim Kardashian always gets what she wants. I don't think she's too dumb to be a lawyer. Plenty of idiots in my cohort graduated and passed the bar. That's what makes this so frustrating. |
I’m black and have biracial children. It’s not a “new concept” and if you can’t recognize the inherent privilege of having a parent who benefits from white privilege like KK’s kids and how that is different from the experience of non-biracial black people then it’s time to go back to the drawing board. |
Kim’s aging reality TV peer, 51-yo Omarosa Newman, just graduated from a real accredited law school this week with dual JD and MBA.
Omarosa exposes what a scamming con this Kim thing is. ![]() https://people.com/the-apprentice-alum-omarosa-graduates-from-law-school-11741227 |
I never said being biracial and identifying as Black erases privilege. I fully understand that having lighter skin comes with certain advantages in a racist society, I've lived it. Yeah, I got shaded growing up for being light-skinned, but I never took it personally or saw it as an attack. I understood the pain and history behind it; how colorism works and who it really hurts the most. But none of that changes the fact that I’m Black. Race is a social construct, and in America, that construct has always included mixed people under Blackness, whether we chose it or not. That’s why I brought up Bob Marley and Halle Berry. This is not some “new trend.” It’s a lived reality for a lot of us. Being mixed and identifying as Black doesn’t mean we’re blind to privilege. We can hold both truths: we benefit from proximity to whiteness and we’re still Black. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. We don’t need to be policed for claiming an identity that this country has always assigned us anyway. We know who we are and we don’t need a permission slip. |