Bribery, greed: All for a little bit of Ivy League

Eh, well of course they will, but it will not be true.

 

This is such BS; there are no facts stated. There are only assumptions and conclusions. With respect to President Obama, he was raised as a biracial kid by a single white mother. IMHO that's worth acknowledging at the very least.

The other thing about affirmative action, the goal of affirmative action is to identify candidates who will not only gain entrance but who will succeed. Clearly rising to the editor o Harvard Law Review shows that he had the talent and did succeed (only 1 of the 400+ students gets that title).

 

And for the umpteenth time, "race" is not a biological concept, it has some use in addressing culture in countries whose economies were founded on centuries of systemic racism, notably USA and to a lesser degree South Africa.

 

He was President of the law review, not editor . First Black Elected to Head Harvard's Law Review

 

Eh, depends on when you catch him (or me). He probably lost 10% off the top, intelligence wise, but he's still a bright kid. He has a lot of classic TBI deficits - anger management issues, impulse control issues, substance abuse issues. On the whole, if you didn't know, you probably wouldn't know. OTOH, that's the insidious side. He looks normal, so if he says or does something that's off kilter, it's unexpected. He still lives with us (at 35). One failed marriage, which was stupid as hell from day one.

I don't know that he'll ever be a fully functional adult, holding down a job long term, married with a family.

Still, he's a good kid with a good heart, and on the whole gets along fairly well. It's a push.

Given that he should have been killed, we're grateful to have him. If there had not been a fire station a quarter mile down the road, he'd be dead. His heart stopped three times before they got him out of the car, but they brought him back.

 

A distinction without a difference.

 

The other thing is, too, Obama did not "have his records sealed," nor did Michelle have hers "sealed" or Malia have hers "sealed." FERPA clearly states that schools cannot make public their students' records without the students' consent.

Just because someone was President, First Lady or First Daughter does not mean they've forfeited their right to the protection the law affords.

 

Yes. That's it exactly. Thanks.

 

Why is it that black families and communities don’t create an environment that puts an emphasis on academic achievement as a way to move up economic ladder? The grandchildren of Ellis Island immigrants 100 years are mostly college graduates, yet most of the grandchildren of those African Americans born after Brown v Board of Ed are not.
Is it because culturally they don’t believe they can achieve academically and therefore don’t put forth the effort?

 

This is based solely on a conversation with a 50 yr old black guy who does IT for us, we were talking last week and he said “I think I’m only 5 generations from slavery.”

Let that marinate; it’s not like boom the first post-slavery generation starts immediately at the same place as everybody else. Nor even the next few generations. Now add the fact that there’s racial discrimination against you and the killing of your high profile leaders MLK and Malcolm X.

No, I don’t wonder why the black experience doesn’t follow the immigrant path.