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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sotomayor and Obama were affirmative action babies. They benefitted from being in the right generation who first benefitted from schools wanting to help the less privileged. It grates me that Mrs. Obama gripes about her Ivy education at Princeton and Harvard Law. She would have never gotten into either school if she were white. She didn't have the grades for Princeton. She got to "check the box".[/quote]

Thats a lie based on . . . race?  Both women were top students in high school.  Sotomayor did come from a disadvantaged high school so she did have a hump to get over when she arrived at Princeton, but the fact that she received the Pyne Prize means she very quickly leapt to the very top of her class.  I knew students at Princeton who came from disadvantaged high schools (white/AA/Latino) and they absolutely the kind of students who belonged because their success in high school indicated a determination that they channeled once they got to Princeton.  One friend of mine in that category is now a doctor serving the community in which she grew up, a poor community that now has the benefit of her expert medical care.

You really need to get a handle on your white resentment.  Its ugly.[/quote]

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