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Anonymous wrote:ICYMI: tons of people failed the February bar this year. It’s a national story at the moment.

And plenty of “smart” people who went to “good” schools do not pass on the first try.

I know someone who graduated from a Tier 1 school who has failed the bar 3 times.

I think Kim should be applauded for even bothering to study and achieve a lofty educational goal given that she’s a celeb who doesn’t need the hassle. I think she really cares about criminal justice reform and systemic racism. After all, she is the mom of 4 black children and the aunt of black nieces and nephews. Her voice matters, so why poo poo her attempt to make a difference? Wouldn’t it be great if she’s successful?

Biracial.

You don't get to decide how those kids identify.

They literally are biracial though? It’s not like identifying as a particular gender.

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 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.

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.

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

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Anonymous wrote:ICYMI: tons of people failed the February bar this year. It’s a national story at the moment.

And plenty of “smart” people who went to “good” schools do not pass on the first try.

I know someone who graduated from a Tier 1 school who has failed the bar 3 times.

I think Kim should be applauded for even bothering to study and achieve a lofty educational goal given that she’s a celeb who doesn’t need the hassle. I think she really cares about criminal justice reform and systemic racism. After all, she is the mom of 4 black children and the aunt of black nieces and nephews. Her voice matters, so why poo poo her attempt to make a difference? Wouldn’t it be great if she’s successful?

Biracial.

You don't get to decide how those kids identify.

They literally are biracial though? It’s not like identifying as a particular gender.

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 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.

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Anonymous wrote:MPRE is the multistate professional responsibility exam. It's required in many states to practice, but it is completely separate from passing the bar exam. MPRE is strictly about legal ethics. A bar exam is going to test many many points of knowledge and analytical reasoning in torts, criminal law, constitutional law, property, evidence and civil procedure. Much longer exam with much greater content.

She is not going to pass the bar exam.

Kamala Harris failed the bar exam, as did Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama.

Odds are heavily against Kim passing.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:It's pretty gross to judge her for this. She's incredibly wealthy and has comlete freedom as to how to spend her time, and no pressure to pass anything (money, time, etc...). So what if she wants to self-study and prolong it in an untraditional way? So what if she never intends to practice? Would it be a little better for society if she devoted her life to traditional law school for 3 years so teen girls could see that as a model? Sure, but that's not her obligation.

FWIW I failed the last in my series of licensing exams the first time. That is super normal for an exam with a 50%ish pass rate, like the CA Bar. I passed the second time and now I am an exam writer. My story INCLUDES the failed attempt with zero shame.

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.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:ICYMI: tons of people failed the February bar this year. It’s a national story at the moment.

And plenty of “smart” people who went to “good” schools do not pass on the first try.

I know someone who graduated from a Tier 1 school who has failed the bar 3 times.

I think Kim should be applauded for even bothering to study and achieve a lofty educational goal given that she’s a celeb who doesn’t need the hassle. I think she really cares about criminal justice reform and systemic racism. After all, she is the mom of 4 black children and the aunt of black nieces and nephews. Her voice matters, so why poo poo her attempt to make a difference? Wouldn’t it be great if she’s successful?

Biracial.

You don't get to decide how those kids identify.

They literally are biracial though? It’s not like identifying as a particular gender.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:ICYMI: tons of people failed the February bar this year. It’s a national story at the moment.

And plenty of “smart” people who went to “good” schools do not pass on the first try.

I know someone who graduated from a Tier 1 school who has failed the bar 3 times.

I think Kim should be applauded for even bothering to study and achieve a lofty educational goal given that she’s a celeb who doesn’t need the hassle. I think she really cares about criminal justice reform and systemic racism. After all, she is the mom of 4 black children and the aunt of black nieces and nephews. Her voice matters, so why poo poo her attempt to make a difference? Wouldn’t it be great if she’s successful?

Biracial.

You don't get to decide how those kids identify.

They literally are biracial though? It’s not like identifying as a particular gender.

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).

^^ 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.

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Anonymous wrote:ICYMI: tons of people failed the February bar this year. It’s a national story at the moment.

And plenty of “smart” people who went to “good” schools do not pass on the first try.

I know someone who graduated from a Tier 1 school who has failed the bar 3 times.

I think Kim should be applauded for even bothering to study and achieve a lofty educational goal given that she’s a celeb who doesn’t need the hassle. I think she really cares about criminal justice reform and systemic racism. After all, she is the mom of 4 black children and the aunt of black nieces and nephews. Her voice matters, so why poo poo her attempt to make a difference? Wouldn’t it be great if she’s successful?

Biracial.

You don't get to decide how those kids identify.

They literally are biracial though? It’s not like identifying as a particular gender.

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.

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.