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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Buck mulligan wrote this to Hhatchet:
What's the great accomplishment? Getting into Princeton based on affirmative action, then getting into law school based on affirmative action, and then getting an over $100,000K salaried job based on affirmative action, and then getting a $300,000K salaried job based on your husband's political ties, and then getting up on a podium and saying how great this country is (something she didn't actually think until she had to make this speech)? Cool. That took a lot of work. Love living in a meritocracy. Oh wait- the great accomplishment isn't anything she actually did, it's the mere fact that she's black and did some things. Wow. Call me underwhelmed, or call her speech self-congratulatory, i don't know. Also, her "accomplishments" are in direct contradiction to her and Obama's supposed stands on issues like health care. Whatever, that doesn't matter to you because with Obama supporters it's really not about the issues, it's about being a cool liberal with a superiority complex based on nothing.
Immediately reminded me of what I talked about in my post "Damned no matter what she does or says" from the page before it. 'Nuff said.
I enjoyed her speech but what I found really interesting was the scroll at the bottom of the page. "Senator McCain is sending his wife Cindy McCain to Georgia to assess the human damage." Or something like that. What a hoot.
"why is it racist to dislike affirmative action? affirmative action is what is racist."
it's racist because denies the debt owed for hundreds of years of holding back American citizens in the race to wealth and equality. Just imagine going back in your family history and stripping it of everything that made your family what it is today - union memberships, civil jobs, military experience, decent neighborhoods and schools -- college educations. to hear the children of the opressors delcare the cheap subsidy of AA as racist - when they really should be stripped of THEIR wealth to repay the debt is sickening...
utterly sickening.
just because i disliked michelle's speech doesn't mean i like bush. i don't like bush. i don't like legacy admissions and i don't like fema dude. i hate most politicians and think they are a bunch of morons and hypocrites. i think obama and bush are about equally stupid, but one is more articulate. my main gripe with obama is his plan to redistribute wealth thru an unfair tax plan. i don't like his plans and proposals, and affirmative action just gets on my nerves. when i went to law school and found out my black peers got 20 points less than me on the entrance exam, and were also getting scholarships, i developed a bit of resentment for the policy of affirmative action.
i am not the children of oppressors. my family is POOR and had nothing to do with oppressing black people. not all white people are rich former plantation owners. some just showed up in this country in like, 1900.
please strip me of my wealth. i am like 200,000 dollars in debt.
McCain's wife is a "trophy wife", as if anyone understands the emotions of strangers, but I haven't read of any "trophy husbands", obviously because man is the hunter and the woman is the prize to be borne to the cave on his broad shoulders.
"when i went to law school and found out my black peers got 20 points less than me on the entrance exam, and were also getting scholarships, i developed a bit of resentment for the policy of affirmative action."
You did? How upset were you to find out that those same blacks would've been excluded from law school - no matter how fine their grades, based on the color of their skin? And what would YOU have done, Mr. JD, to rectify the extreme unfairness that blacks experienced throughout the bulk of this nation's history? because in a REAL fair world, your family's wealth - built on the back of that unfairness - would be stripped and we'd all start the game from square one - do you prefer THAt remedy?
If not - shut up and go be a great lawyer...
I didn't realize how much I hated the speech until I read this article. When I watched it, I thought, "good, not great...does what it's supposed to do." I'm for Obama, so if it helps get him elected, it worked. Or that's the theory.
But when I read this evaluation, and look at the plain-old hypocrisy of the whole thing. That it's a an image concocted to create a false impression, it just boils my blood.
Would I rather politicians, and their wives, be honest and thus risk not getting elected? I guess I do.
My daughter (don't ask why) wanted to watch the DVD of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" yesterday evening -- a claymation story about the origins of the Santa myth, narrated by Fred Astaire. Not the usual terrorist propaganda ... so imagine my surprise when I noticed that Kris Kringle gives the Warlock of Winter a "terrorist fist bump" when WoW's heart melts with joy upon Kris giving him a toy. Since Michelle Obama apparently has to stress her American "cred" with the electorate, it's worth pointing out that her most famous move is shared with Santa. Hard to tell a more "American story" than one celebrating Christian consumerism in claymation.
" not all white people are rich former plantation owners. some just showed up in this country in like, 1900."
And the moment they walked off the boat - these foreigners had more rights and more access to wealth than the blacks who took their trunks off the ship - blacks who may've been living in America through generation after generation. do you deny that? Even after you got into law school, you're too blind to history to allow a little leeway for Americans who were systematically denied the same kind of rights your family took for granted.
nice, Buck - very nice...
My family doesn't have any wealth. seriously. i know this might be hard for you to accept because you can't wrap your mind around the idea of a poor white person. To be accurate you should have said: "your family's poverty, built on the back of [the] unfairness... that blacks experienced throughout the bulk of this nation's history... would be stripped and we'd all start the game from square one."
Doesn't make any sense does it?
As far as i'm concerned, i did start the game from square one. maybe negative one. my parents were violent alcoholics.
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