So how did the rich white kid end up such a narcissist? |
I'm sure the former President gives a shit about your "perspective" - lol. |
DP.. white privilege. I really find it funny that white people slam affirmative action then turn around and demand holistic approaches to college entrances because who wants a college full of one dimensional Asian American students who score higher than a white person. Scores don't mean much when it comes to comparing their White kids to Asian American kids, but it means everything when compared to Black/Hispanic kids. |
Make your case that Obama and his wife are the products of affirmative action. Be specific in citing your evidence. It can't just be a combination of their skin color and the fact that they went to excellent colleges and law schools and got great jobs. That's not evidence - that's your prejudice. Provide real evidence that they were not qualified to go to those schools based on their accomplishments, test scores, personalities, motivation, etc. alone, and that only their African ancestry got them where they are. Because that is what you are implying: they weren't as smart, accomplished, and qualified as their white colleagues, and that without the extending hand of affirmative action they wouldn't be where they are today. Then tell us how you think Trump got to where he is all by his stable genius self. |
+1000 No one becomes editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Review due to affirmative action. They have to be voted into that position by their peers. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/06/us/first-black-elected-to-head-harvard-s-law-review.html |
There are no transcripts available for Obama; he refused to release them. The only test result that is public is Michelle's failure to pass the bar exam on her first attempt. |
eh.. leave them alone. Clearly, they are all just jealous because their man Trump was a C average student and his professor called him one of the dumbest people he had ever had in class. He couldn't even get into Penn without his daddy buying his way in, which is not all that different to affirmative action. At least the Obamas had the grades while in college. They can't say the same for Trump. Oh wait, right, grades aren't everything when it comes to white people. That only applies to non white people. |
So did my DH. He is white, of Anglo-Saxon heritage. Did he get affirmative action to go to a top 10 law school? |
Obamas won't release their transcripts so we will never know. The only available evidence is a report that the average SAT scores were 300 points lower for the transferred students in the year that Obama transferred to Columbia. Obama wrote in his book he was a bad HS student. The fact that we have an affirmative action policy guaranteed that their skin color was a factor for consideration. Again that doesn't mean they couldn't get in based on their merits alone. |
Obama was a transfer student to Columbia. He transferred from Occidental College in Los Angeles, which is an intense and elite liberal arts school. Presumably he had excellent grades at Occidental, therefore SAT scores would be less relevant to Columbia. Furthermore, the SATs in the 1980s did not take into account writing abilities. Even in high school, Obama was known to be a prolific and high skilled writer. It's a bit of a sick and farcical tragedy that the SATs did not incorporate writing abilities until the late 00s, given the importance of it to our daily lives. |
Whoever the person or person's are so determined to defend Donald's fitness for office by calling Obama's character/education into question - you're an idiot. There's no comparison. Your boy Donald doesn't stand up which is why he (and you) are so obsessed with Obama. |
This s is just plain sloppy thinking. Or rather, despite your last sentence qualifying your point, you are still trying to cast aspersions on Obama's intellect by implying you can't trust he got in anywhere or got any job by his own merits. You can find plenty of white kids who didn't do that great in high school, spent a year at a so-so college, then transferred to a selective school. Hey, that sounds like the current president! Who has assured us he's a genius. I'm white and my SAT scores were probably just above middling but I was accepted into an Ivy in part because of where I was applying from (rural nowhere). I never studied once for the SAT, never took a class, didn't know anyone else who did and I couldn't have afforded it anyway. SAT scores tell you a lot less than you think they do. Rich whites get affirmative action all the time because of the opportunities their wealth buy them. And yet it's poor black students that people like you are constantly complaining about. |
You do realize Einstein dropped out of high school at 15 and initially failed the college entrance exams, right?
Standardized testing has failed generations of brilliant minds. |
People who are this passionately against affirmative action and only have the logical response of "but it's not fair!" are either paid shills, or deeply insecure and unhappy about their lot and looking for someone abstract (to them) to blame.
Either way, they are easy targets for derision and pity and why not mix the two? You poor sad little moppet, OP. You work so hard here |
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