Photos Leak of Barack & Michelle Obama on Luxury Yacht in Greece While They Complain about Affirmative Action

Leaked photos have emerged that show Barack and Michelle Obama on board a luxury super yacht enjoying a lavish family vacation in Greece while they issued statements blasting โ€œequalityโ€ in America.

The former president and first lady both issued statements last week complaining about the Supreme Court striking down affirmative action.

However, photos leaked to the Daily Mail show that the Obamas were on a lavish vacation in Greece with Hollywood star Tom Hanks and his family at the same time they published their statements.

Barack Obama said in a statement, โ€œAffirmative action was never a complete answer in the drive towards a more just society.

โ€œBut for generations of students who had been systematically excluded from most of Americaโ€™s key institutionsโ€“it gave us the chance to show we more than deserved a seat at the table.

โ€œIn the wake of the Supreme Courtโ€™s recent decision, itโ€™s time to redouble our efforts.โ€

Michelle said: โ€œBack in college, I was one of the few black students on my campus, and I was proud of getting into such a respected school.

โ€œI knew Iโ€™d worked hard for it.

โ€œBut still, I sometimes wondered if people thought I got there because of affirmative action.

โ€œIt was a shadow that students like me couldnโ€™t shake, whether those doubts came from the outside or inside our own minds.

โ€œBut the fact is this: I belonged. And semester after semester, decade after decade, for more than half a century, countless students like me showed they belonged, too.

โ€œIt wasnโ€™t just the kids of color who benefitted, either.

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โ€œEvery student who heard a perspective they might not have encountered, who had an assumption challenged, who had their minds and their hearts opened gained a lot as well.

โ€œIt wasnโ€™t perfect, but thereโ€™s no doubt that it helped offer new ladders of opportunity for those who, throughout our history, have too often been denied a chance to show how fast they can climb.

โ€œOf course, students on my campus and countless others across the country were โ€“ and continue to be โ€“ granted special consideration for admissions.

โ€œSome have parents who graduated from the same school.

โ€œOthers have families who can afford coaches to help them run faster or hit a ball harder.

โ€œOthers go to high schools with lavish resources for tutors and extensive standardized test prep that help them score higher on college entrance exams.

โ€œWe donโ€™t usually question if those students belong.

โ€œSo often, we just accept that money, power, and privilege are perfectly justifiable forms of affirmative action, while kids growing up like I did are expected to compete when the ground is anything but level.

โ€œSo today, my heart breaks for any young person out there whoโ€™s wondering what their future holds โ€“ and what kinds of chances will be open to them.

โ€œAnd while I know the strength and grit that lies inside kids who have always had to sweat a little more to climb the same ladders, I hope and I pray that the rest of us are willing to sweat a little, too.

โ€œToday is a reminder that weโ€™ve got to do the work not just to enact policies that reflect our values of equity and fairness, but to truly make those values real in all of our schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods.โ€

However, as Slay News reported, the former first ladyโ€™s ex-Princeton classmate, Rabbi Yaakov Menken, rebuked Michelle Obama over the โ€œridiculousโ€ claims.

โ€œAs a fellow Princeton student at the time Michelle Robinson [Obama] was there, I have to make a few comments,โ€ Menken said.

โ€œHer claim that she was one of the โ€˜fewโ€™ black students is ridiculous.

โ€œAffirmative action was in full force, and the Third World Center was a popular campus destination for blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, and others.

โ€œThere were far more blacks than Jews, and there were not โ€˜a fewโ€™ Jews on campus.

โ€œDespite the foregoing, she also wrote a senior thesis claiming she felt like she really didnโ€™t belong.

โ€œWhen she claims her โ€˜heart breaks for any young person,โ€™ she helps explain why her husbandโ€™s tenure was the most racially divisive presidency in the last 30 years (at the end of his second term, people recorded more friction between races than at the beginning of the first).

โ€œShe might as well say openly that she means โ€˜any young personโ€™ only if theyโ€™re black.

โ€œWhat about the students who now think that if they work hard and study hard, they will actually have a fair chance at admission, thanks to this decision?

โ€œA good friend of mine told me openly, at Princeton, that he was happy with affirmative action โ€˜because I didnโ€™t have the grades.โ€™

โ€œHe was black, of course.

โ€œAnd I couldnโ€™t help thinking, โ€˜itโ€™s great that you are here, but which student, that actually did have the grades, didnโ€™t get to come to Princeton because they gave the spot to you?โ€™

โ€œI didnโ€™t like that thought, like I said, he was a friend, but he just told me he really didnโ€™t have the academic scores needed to get in, and that meant someone else was left out.

โ€œMultiple times over the past few years we have read stories about a student getting into each and every one of the Ivy League schools.

โ€œWithout even opening the article, we knew the skin color of the student in question.

โ€œDonโ€™t tell me itโ€™s racist to notice, blame the admission system.

โ€œYou knew it too,โ€ he said.

โ€œAnd, sadly, there was a recent story of an Asian student with an outstanding record of academic and extracurricular achievement, a first-generation American from an impoverished immigrant background, who got into none of the top schools.

โ€œThere is another good friend of mine who went to Princeton with me, my best friend since third grade.

โ€œHe didnโ€™t need a special leg up, he was an academic performer.

โ€œAnd now no one will look at future students like him and wonder if he got in due to the color of his skin or the content of his mind.

โ€œThe other forms of โ€˜special considerationโ€™ that she mentions are in no way comparable.

โ€œLegacy kids are more likely to succeed, have loyalty, and of course that only works for the schools mom and dad attended.

โ€œSchools need sports teams for their own prestige.

โ€œAnd those who got coaching and academic training are, of course, coming into college better prepared to succeed and elevate the academic level of the school.

โ€œStating that race is somehow comparable is precisely the opposite of what MLK hoped for, a society in which skin color was irrelevant.

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โ€œNow we will move at least closer to his dream, and a situation in which every child feels that the way to get into a school like Princeton is with real dedication and hard work.โ€

READ MORE: RFK Jr: Obama Made a โ€˜Golden Handshake with the Devilโ€™

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