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Nothing is being missed. Your side has yet to show any evidence at all that affirmative action had anything to do with her getting into any of her schools or getting any of her jobs. Unless you have evidence your side is just bitching cause a well qualified black person got a job.
that's really dishonest. of course Obama is not going to say he picked her because she is a black female. Of course Harvard is not going to admit that if she was a white male or even a white female with a 3.3-3.5 average at harvard, that candidate would not have been admitted. But its pretty obvious to anyone who was applying to big name law schools the SAME exact year she did that blacks were getting huge breaks
I posted several years ago proof that in 1981 blacks applying to harvard had .5 added to their GPA and 130 points on the LSAT which when LL and I took the LSAT, it was an 800 scale
So a WHITE MALE with a 3.75 from harvard college and a 750 LSAT score (someone who had about a 50-50 chance of admission at Harvard at BEST) was going to be passed over in favor of a black who had a 3.3 (+.5=3.8) and a 650 LSAT(+ 130=780) score.
If you (I know you didn't) ever looked at the admissions charts at Harvard you would have seen a graph
the up bar started at around 2.0 and each box increased by .20 or .25 culminating with 4.0 (GPA)
the horizontal bar started at around 600 and culminated (25 points per box) with a 800
those at the very top 3.8-4.0 and 775 or higher still had rejection rates of over 30%
the next box each way (someone with a top LSAT but say a 3.7 GPA) or a 4 point with a 750-775 LSAT had less than a third of a chance of being admitted. (especially if that GPA was not from Amherst, MIT, Yale or similar)
those two boxes back or down had almost no chance
but then down in the 3.3-3.5 area and around 640-660 we saw a fair amount (over 50 IIRC for the Class of 1984) who got into the school. and yes, those were the affirmative action admissions.
in a speech to interested Yale Undergrads at Yale law school, the lady dean of admissions for Harvard admitted that harvard had an "aggressive affirmative action program" and when questioned about that group of acceptances, refused to say all were black but did admit that this was proof of that "aggressive policy"
Yale law did the same thing, There is a report from a black law professor who applied to yale and harvard. one law school immediately accepted him, the other turned him down. When he called and inquired as to his rejection, he was told that the school didn't know he was black. He chose to attend the school that did and had let him in even though his initial rejection was overturned.
and yes, when LL applied to Harvard, hundreds upon hundreds of better qualified whites were turned down