Former First Lady Michelle Obama has declared that Ivy League schools “scam” their students.
However, the remark is raising eyebrows considering her own attendance at Princeton as an affirmative action student.
Obama appeared on the Diary of a CEO podcast and spoke about her experience at Princeton by saying:
“Although I was an outstanding student, I wasn’t a good standardized test-taker.
“All those numbers said that I shouldn’t do well at Princeton.”
She continued by saying, “‘So I came in as an ‘affirmative action kid.’
“Sort of feeling like maybe I don’t belong in these ivory towers and maybe these kids coming from these other schools are really so much smarter and better than I am.”
She then continued by saying her academic performance at Princeton demonstrated her right to be there, but that still didn’t sit well with some observers who saw Obama’s comments as papering over her status as an affirmative action student.
Affirmative action is being soundly dismantled around the nation in recognition of the racist and fundamentally flawed idea.
This is in spite of the work of leftists like Obama, who want to keep affirmative action in place and further promote racial identity in academia.
Michelle Obama was clearly defending affirmative action but also openly taking shots at Ivy League schools by saying:
“Do not let these people scam you.
“This is all a racket,” she added.
“That you don’t belong, that they’re smarter, that they work harder, that they know more, that they deserve this more than you do.”
Obama was able to study sociology at Princeton and would later go on to study at Harvard Law School, making her a member of America’s elite, but not stopping her from waging a campaign of racial grievance for decades.
Thanks to the rise of affirmative action, many students like Michelle Obama were able to enter Ivy League schools.
However, that attendance came at the expense of more qualified students from racial groups that weren’t considered disadvantaged.
This situation led to a massive backlash over the years, with lawsuits from Asian-Americans alleging that qualified students were passed over in favor of less qualified students from supposedly less advantaged groups.
Eventually, this fight led to the Supreme Court knocking down affirmative action in 2023.
The high court found that it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Of course, Michelle Obama decried that decision by saying:
“My heart breaks for any young person out there who’s wondering what their future holds — and what kinds of chances will be open to them.”
Notably, Michelle Obama issued that statement from a luxury yacht in Greece.
Clearly, she didn’t care about kids who had opportunities stolen from them by the racist scam that is affirmative action.
Michelle Obama is the last person to speak about Ivy League schools, as she represents the elite and is supported by the same people whom she accused of running a “racket.”
She was comfortable blasting these schools on the Diary of a CEO podcast, but is tied at the hip with these elite organizations.
Ivy League universities like Harvard and Columbia overwhelmingly supported former President Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns.
Numerous studies have found that the staffing at elite universities is overwhelmingly leftist.
This makes Michelle Obama’s comments on Ivy League schools even more bizarre and inauthentic.
Obama desperately wants to appeal to younger Americans.
Yet, she stands with those same people who have happily embraced elitist and anti-American policies that disadvantage young Americans.
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