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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
First you want to complain about people whining about victimization and affirmative action.
You're whining about the whiners to start with. That's your first mistake.
Then you want to complain about how your fellow black law students all (yeah I'm sure it was ALL) scored 20 points lower than you on the entrance exam. More whining anyone? I thought you hated whiners. Who's the one crying victim now? Easy it's you. Also I find it hard to believe you scored 20 points higher than ANYONE on the LSAT given that it's an exam that measures, largely, your ability to use logic.
Also there's the fact Obama didn't even bother to fill out his race on his Harvard Law School Admission form, so it's hard to see how he benefitted from affirmative action there. But I'm sure you'll find a way.
That's a fact we've pointed out numerous times to those who want to whine about affirmative action. Shockingly we get no response.
And, yes, you're right Michelle Obama ONLY got into college because of affirmative action. (A dumb case, but I guess, one in the weakest sense.) You then go on to try and diminsh all of her subsequent acheivements, be they personal, financial or professional as a result of affirmative action. Yeah, sure.
Finally you don't get to be editor of the Harvard Law Review through affirmative action. I'm sorry but you don't. And anyone who's gone to law school knows this.
Barack Obama, whatever his other shortcomings might be, is clearly a brilliant mind. People can laugh, they can jeer, whatever.
But this most recent respite of the last, bitter losers that Obama has no redeeming characteristics whatsoever and is nothing is sad and embarassing to those hate-filled enough to spew it. It's also stupid. No one's buying it.
As for people constantly questioning you about Bush's speaking, easy: your total refusal to use logic (despite your managing to somehow pass the LSAT, an exam dependent on logic), your pre-school allusions to throwing up in your mouth, and your constant whining about affirmative action make you appear to many of us as the typical, dumb swing voter.
You know the type who voted for Bush because he didn't make them throw up in their mouth and they wanted to have a beer with him. In other words the morons who managed to screw us over twice in the last 8 years, and are managing to find a way to somehow try and do it again by voting for John McCain. So thanks. From all of us.
"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."
My grandfather was a butcher - my grandmother a clerk at sears.. I know about poor whites. Just because your fmaily were losers, doesn[t mean they didn[t have the opportunity denied others based just on skin color...
get it?
If you're in any way critcal of a Black person you should also say something equally critical about a White person...Gotcha...If you're critcal about a White person you should also accompany this with an "Amen"...K, ground rules set...
I've always wanted to ask this!
Is it ALL successful black people who advanced due to affirmative action? Or did any of them do it out of being smart and hard-working enough to meet your standards?
I mean, do you EVER encounter a successful black person and think "yeah, THIS guy would have gotten here without a set-aside!"?
And if you do, just how is it that Michelle Obama as an individual doesn't meet that standard? And which black people in her college classes and lawfirms did?
That's the ironic part of all this stupid, griping for no reason.
But people like our friend buck here and geraldine ferraro are either too stupid or too dishonest to admit that.
Notice that despite all of the charges leveled against Obama by many of these older white women (stupid, empty suit, fake) rarely if ever is he called "The affirmative action candidate."
Why? Easy because they know losing this would hurt them MORE than it would African-Americans. Hence it's never even mentioned.
But most white women, and I'm sure most of these PUMAs, know good and well they not African-Americans are the largest beneficiaries of affirmative action.
Yet it is always put forth as only a racial issue. I don't hear buck over here complaining about how white women in his law school class scored. But I heard him complaining, right away about how blacks scored.
All of these pushes for pay equality, getting women in the sciences, making sure girls have a fair shot at mathematics, taking back some of the sexist notions of those in power (Larry Summmers) about what girls can and can't do?
Gone without affirmative action. Yesterday. People really need to research what affirmative action ACTUALLY IS not just their perceived notion of it. It would hurt across a much broader range of the spectrum than most people think.
And the largest group effected (in terms of representation, salary, position, as well as what fields they could even GO INTO in terms of what to study) would be white women.
No affirmative action, you're waving goodbye to white women in any number of areas and positions. And you're probably seeing another drop in commensurate pay.
I know you are better then that. It is not that you have to say something about whites. But if you say you will not vote for a black who you perceive to have benefited from affirmative-action but vote for a person that you know benefitted from Legacy programs or affirmative action that is being a hypocrite at the least and racist at its worst.
We now know that the people that were being hired as attorney-generals were being hired because of their politics and not because they were qualified and George Bush hired a man to head FEMA whose last job was judging horse shows. These types of things happen everyday and for someone to whine about Barack and Michelle Obama based on their perceived belief that they they were not qualified should be insulting to everyone.
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