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 โequalityโ 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, โAffirmative action was never a complete answer in the drive towards a more just society.
โBut for generations of students who had been systematically excluded from most of Americaโs key institutionsโit gave us the chance to show we more than deserved a seat at the table.
โIn the wake of the Supreme Courtโs recent decision, itโs time to redouble our efforts.โ
๐จBREAKING: Photos have just leaked of Michelle Obama currently vacationing on a massive private yacht on a private island in Greece
This means the Obamas were rage-tweeting about being โoppressedโ & โvictimizedโ after the SCOTUS Affirmative Action ruling from THIS luxury yacht: pic.twitter.com/HOoPcVq4px
โ Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 30, 2023
Michelle said: โBack in college, I was one of the few black students on my campus, and I was proud of getting into such a respected school.
โI knew Iโd worked hard for it.
โBut still, I sometimes wondered if people thought I got there because of affirmative action.
โIt was a shadow that students like me couldnโt shake, whether those doubts came from the outside or inside our own minds.
โBut 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.
โIt wasnโt just the kids of color who benefitted, either.
โEvery 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.
โIt wasnโt perfect, but thereโs 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.
โOf course, students on my campus and countless others across the country were โ and continue to be โ granted special consideration for admissions.
โSome have parents who graduated from the same school.
โOthers have families who can afford coaches to help them run faster or hit a ball harder.
โOthers go to high schools with lavish resources for tutors and extensive standardized test prep that help them score higher on college entrance exams.
โWe donโt usually question if those students belong.
โSo 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.
โSo today, my heart breaks for any young person out there whoโs wondering what their future holds โ and what kinds of chances will be open to them.
โAnd 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.
โToday is a reminder that weโve 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
โBarack Obama & Tom Hanks were spotted enjoying a lavish vacation together in Greece alongside their families.
The US President & Hollywood star were seen having an al fresco dinner together a glamorous waterfront restaurant on the island of Sifnos.โhttps://t.co/pFgTaKKvup
โ Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 30, 2023
However, as Slay News reported, the former first ladyโs ex-Princeton classmate, Rabbi Yaakov Menken, rebuked Michelle Obama over the โridiculousโ claims.
โAs a fellow Princeton student at the time Michelle Robinson [Obama] was there, I have to make a few comments,โ Menken said.
โHer claim that she was one of the โfewโ black students is ridiculous.
โAffirmative action was in full force, and the Third World Center was a popular campus destination for blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, and others.
โThere were far more blacks than Jews, and there were not โa fewโ Jews on campus.
โDespite the foregoing, she also wrote a senior thesis claiming she felt like she really didnโt belong.
โWhen she claims her โheart breaks for any young person,โ she helps explain why her husbandโs 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).
โShe might as well say openly that she means โany young personโ only if theyโre black.
โWhat 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?
โA good friend of mine told me openly, at Princeton, that he was happy with affirmative action โbecause I didnโt have the grades.โ
โHe was black, of course.
โAnd I couldnโt help thinking, โitโs great that you are here, but which student, that actually did have the grades, didnโt get to come to Princeton because they gave the spot to you?โ
โI didnโt like that thought, like I said, he was a friend, but he just told me he really didnโt have the academic scores needed to get in, and that meant someone else was left out.
โMultiple times over the past few years we have read stories about a student getting into each and every one of the Ivy League schools.
โWithout even opening the article, we knew the skin color of the student in question.
โDonโt tell me itโs racist to notice, blame the admission system.
โYou knew it too,โ he said.
โAnd, 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.
โThere is another good friend of mine who went to Princeton with me, my best friend since third grade.
โHe didnโt need a special leg up, he was an academic performer.
โAnd 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.
โThe other forms of โspecial considerationโ that she mentions are in no way comparable.
โLegacy kids are more likely to succeed, have loyalty, and of course that only works for the schools mom and dad attended.
โSchools need sports teams for their own prestige.
โAnd 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.
โStating that race is somehow comparable is precisely the opposite of what MLK hoped for, a society in which skin color was irrelevant.
โNow 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
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