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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I understand your frustration, OP. I'm sure that others are frustrated when the Obama girls get counted as affirmative action candidates, too. For what it's worth, my white-looking Latino kid has one very brown grandmother and significant indigenous ancestry on 23andMe. He also has two light-skinned Latino grandparents and their phenotype won out. Ancestry isn't as simple as we'd like it to be. I'd like to think that my Latino kid will be a champion for all Latinos, including those with much less privilege. I do agree that the affirmative action movement in this country needs to be fixed, even though my child and I have benefitted from it (with high SAT scores and other qualifications, I will add!).[/quote]

You seem to misunderstand the words "Affirmative Action." The Obama girls were not admitted to university on the basis of affirmative action. They, like every other presidential child, could write their own ticket due to the prestige of having a presidential child choose a specific school.

That's not "affirmative action." That's celebrity. [/quote]

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