Vincent J. Curtis
19 Dec 2016
Could anyone be more hopeless than Michelle Obama? Could anyone be more out of touch than
Michelle Obama? I mean, other than those
Hollywood celebrities calling on Trump Electors to be faithless – as an act of
conscience and patriotism!
Today, an Oprah Winfrey show is going to have Michelle Obama
tell Oprah that the current mood of America is what “not having hope feels
like.” She then amplifies her statement
by saying something about hope being necessary and some such, a quality of statement
that belies the education she received at Princeton and Harvard.
In 2008, after the Democrat party had nominated husband
Barack at its presidential nominee, she famously said that this was the first
time in her life she felt proud of her country.
She meant that for the first time in her life, that racist chip on her
shoulder slipped off. Soon enough she
replaced it, however, because the racist ambush is about the only method of
argument she has confidence in delivering.
Michelle has lived a life of cosseted privilege. In 2006, her salary was $273,618 from the University of Chicago
Hospitals, while her husband had a salary of $157,082 from the United States Senate. The Obamas' total
income, however, was $991,296, which included $51,200 she earned as a member of
the board of directors of TreeHouse
Foods, and investments and royalties from his books.
Advancements
through her career are mysterious for a person without connections and of
modest attainments.
In 1996, at the
age of 32, Michelle served as the Associate Dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago. In 2002, she began working for the
University of Chicago Hospitals, first as executive director for community
affairs and, beginning May 2005, as Vice President for Community and External
Affairs. Note the dates and the status
of husband Barack’s career at the same time.
In 1991, at the
age of 27, she worked in the Chicago city government as an Assistant to the Mayor and as Assistant Commissioner of
Planning and Development. In 1993, she became Executive Director for the
Chicago office of Public
Allies, a non-profit organization encouraging young
people to work on social issues in nonprofit groups and government agencies.
In 1981, she
entered Princeton University. Her graduation
thesis was entitled Princeton-Educated
Blacks and the Black Community. Part
of her research consisted in sending a questionnaire to African American
graduates, requesting they specify when and how comfortable they were
with their race prior to their enrollment at Princeton and how they felt about
it when they were a student and since then. Of the 400 alumni sent the survey, “fewer
than 90 responded, and the findings did not support her hope that the black
alumni would still identity with the African American community, even though
they had attended an elite university with all of the advantages that accrues
to its graduates." She majored in
sociology and minored in African American studies,
graduating cum
laude with a Bachelor of Arts in 1985.
Obviously, race consciousness and feelings have been central to Michelle’s thinking since college
days. A voluntary survey of 400 to which
fewer than 90 responded does not provide scientific results. The purpose of the survey was to test a
thesis, not a hope; and you would not be wrong to rub your eyes at what the
thesis was: that blacks still identify as “blacks” despite being Princeton
graduates and having the advantages of an Ivy League education. Nevertheless, Michelle graduated, and was admitted
to Harvard Law School.
Michelle earned a J.D. (Juris Doctor – a fancy name for a
lawyer with another university degree) from Harvard in 1988. It was at Harvard that Michelle allegedly
concluded that she could be “both brilliant and black,” according to her
faculty mentor Charles Ogletree.
She graduated from Harvard Law and landed a job at the law
firm Sidley Austin, LLP, where she met Barack.
They were married in 1992.
Michelle Obama got into Princeton with a lot less than
non-minority students, and I’m guessing that it was on full, or nearly full,
scholarship. She takes a bird course,
does a half-assed thesis, and they give her a degree and send her out the door;
and Princeton gets credit for graduating a black female.
On the strength of a mere cum laude sociology degree, Michelle lands a spot at Harvard Law,
but don’t think for a moment that being black and being female had anything to
do with her admission. No more so that being female and being 1/32 Cherokee had anything to do with Harvard Law hiring Elizabeth Warren.
Anyhow, after barely three years in practicing law, she is
already working for government in the city of Chicago doing those non-technical
soft things – Assistant to the Mayor, Assistant to someone else. Within five years of graduating Harvard Law,
she placed her law license into voluntary suspension, and is wife of up and
coming Barack Obama, another story of modest attainments being inflated to epic
proportions for reasons of race.
If it weren’t for prevalence of race-guilt in America, a
person of Michelle Obama’s talents would never have made it to Princeton and
Harvard Law. She has benefitted
personally to a degree she cannot imagine on account of the fact that she is a black
female who is culturally a step above a ghetto-mama.
She sees the race guilt of America everywhere she looks, and
her comment about the America of Donald Trump being a place without hope
reflects her view from the bubble of privilege she has lived in her entire
adult life. It chokes people more
talented and less lucky than she has been to listen to her disparage the first
sign of hope they have seen in a decade or more – Donald Trump.
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