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Are you smarter than The Obama?

Are you smarter than The Obama?


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that isn't calling anyone "racist" but noting that those who claim Obama is brilliant fail to note his college record was mediocre

Still the first mention of anybody's race.
 
that's like saying Germany did not owe a collective debt to the European & North African Jewish people after the Holocaust.

wow.


Affirmative action was supposedly to level the playing field...it was I admit better than what it replaced and that was the absurd quota system..that was totally against whites and created nothing but animosity between the races for a variety of reasons.

Its time for affirmative action to end..its run its course and its a source of constant racial animosity...that we dont need....just my humble opinion
 
that's like saying Germany did not owe a collective debt to the European & North African Jewish people after the Holocaust.

Nobody owes no one nothing. We here now. Never again.
 
oh, and for the record, I do NOT support affirmative action in cases where the only supposed evidence of discrimination is a lower minority percentage in the workplace than in the general population.

the FDNY & NYPD has a lower percentage of blacks than in the general population of NYC.

some misguided blacks and white liberals see this as a clear sign of discrimination in hiring & testing practices.

.....and yet, the fact that Jews make up a much lower percentage in the FDNY & NYPD than they make up in NYC doesn't seem to faze them.

Jews are 15% of NYC, yet make up less than 5% of the FDNY. Is this due to institutionalized discrimination against Jews in the Fire Department of New York? Absolutely not.

Did it ever....just ever occur to some folks that maybe just maybe, blacks and Jews tend to not WANT to be firefighters as much as others folks? Is such a suggestion sooooo impossible to comprehend?????

Jews have traditionally gone into fields like teaching, social work, medicine, banking, accounting, business, etc etc. This is a niche that Jews found for themselves decades ago, and it has stuck. There is nothing wrong with this. Firefighting was not part of this niche.

So, we don't have 15% of the FDNY being Jewish. And yet..we don't see the ADL yelling & screaming about institutionalized anti-Semitism at the FDNY. Why??? Because the ADL and other Jews know that on average, the FDNY is not the most popular choice for the typical Jewish NYer.

Just like how the FDNY and the NYPD is not the most popular choice for blacks in NYC. Blacks traditionally have a greater suspicion of authority and the FDNY is part of that system.

Maybe blacks and the Vulcan Society can learn a thing or two from Jewish-Americans.
 
affirmative action is not "against" whites. please stop with the racist talking points.

that is a patently stupid comment. whites are the normal victims of affirmative action be it the now illegal quota system (see the New Haven Firefighters case) or the system where Blacks with B averages gain admission over whites with A averages
 
so what. You aren't making any sense

its not simply that you brought up Obama's race, its that you had the chutzpah to suggest that the only reason Obama got into Harvard was his race.

this is a tired old racist card being played by Tea-Baggers and other bigots who are uncomfortable with the idea of a black man in office. hell, they've been accusing him of being a fake-American, a Communist, and even being the son of Malcom X.

so your comments are just part of a larger context of Obama being attacked simply due to the color of his skin.
 
its not simply that you brought up Obama's race, its that you had the chutzpah to suggest that the only reason Obama got into Harvard was his race.

this is a tired old racist card being played by Tea-Baggers and other bigots who are uncomfortable with the idea of a black man in office. hell, they've been accusing him of being a fake-American, a Communist, and even being the son of Malcom X.

so your comments are just part of a larger context of Obama being attacked simply due to the color of his skin.

a white guy would not have been accepted into Harvard Law with the same other credentials (or lack of them) as Obama in the year he applied.

try again
 
a white guy would not have been accepted into Harvard Law with the same other credentials (or lack of them) as Obama in the year he applied...

do you have evidence that a white man with the exact same grades and accomplishments and history as Obama would not have been accepted into Harvard Law the same year?

thought not. try again. maybe Prisonplanet has some ideas you can use.
 
that is a patently stupid comment. whites are the normal victims of affirmative action be it the now illegal quota system (see the New Haven Firefighters case) or the system where Blacks with B averages gain admission over whites with A averages

i am against the New Haven case. see my above post condemning affirmative action in cases of simple lower racial percentages in industries and civil service agencies.
 
do you have evidence that a white man with the exact same grades and accomplishments and history as Obama would not have been accepted into Harvard Law the same year?

thought not. try again. maybe Prisonplanet has some ideas you can use.

Yeah, go and read my earlier posts along with some others.

the year I applied to law schools the top scoring black accepted at Yale Law had scores below hundreds of white males who were rejected.
 
Yeah, go and read my earlier posts along with some others.

the year I applied to law schools the top scoring black accepted at Yale Law had scores below hundreds of white males who were rejected.

Where are you getting the HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL information you are claiming to be sharing here? How could you know what the distribution of scores was?
 
Where are you getting the HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL information you are claiming to be sharing here? How could you know what the distribution of scores was?

Uh because it was pretty much public knowledge at Yale. Some professors who opposed affirmative racism publicly spoke about the differential in standards. we also so black classmates who-at the time we graduated-(when you received your diploma the dean of your college would say --Say Akhil Reed Amar (one of my friends currently Sterling Professor of Constitutional Law) BA , SUMMA CUM LAUDE WITH DISTINCTION IN POLITICAL SCIENCE). Yet we knew dozens of blacks who were not awarded any honors who were going to big name law and medical schools the following year
 
Uh because it was pretty much public knowledge at Yale. Some professors who opposed affirmative racism publicly spoke about the differential in standards. we also so black classmates who-at the time we graduated-(when you received your diploma the dean of your college would say --Say Akhil Reed Amar (one of my friends currently Sterling Professor of Constitutional Law) BA , SUMMA CUM LAUDE WITH DISTINCTION IN POLITICAL SCIENCE). Yet we knew dozens of blacks who were not awarded any honors who were going to big name law and medical schools the following year

I'm sure you will understand that your claim to word-of-mouth access to that information is suspect. Please excuse me for not believing a word of it.
 
Affirmative action was supposedly to level the playing field...it was I admit better than what it replaced and that was the absurd quota system..that was totally against whites and created nothing but animosity between the races for a variety of reasons.

Its time for affirmative action to end..its run its course and its a source of constant racial animosity...that we dont need....just my humble opinion

Ending something because it hurts some white people's feelings isn't a good reason to end anything. This whole argument that it "increases animosity" is useless as it only increases animosity for some people - people who I don't respect anyway. I remember a guy at my high school who didn't get into a college and said, "I didn't get in because some black guy took my spot" - affirmative action is just a scapegoat for people who aren't particularly remarkable and need someone to blame for not getting what they think they deserve.
 
Ending something because it hurts some white people's feelings isn't a good reason to end anything. .

kinda like taking down a confederate flag from a confederate cemetary because it hurts some black people's feelings?

funny how this kind of crap can work both ways. :roll:
 
kinda like taking down a confederate flag from a confederate cemetary because it hurts some black people's feelings?

funny how this kind of crap can work both ways. :roll:
What are you even talking about? Have I mentioned something about a confederate flag or are you just failing at trolling again by not making any sense?
 
Yeah, which is why his campaign accused President Clinton of being a racist. Which is why he said:


Sen. John McCain's campaign accused Sen. Barack Obama of playing the "race card" on Thursday, a day after the Democrat said his opponent and other Republicans would try to scare voters by pointing to Obama's "funny name" and the fact that "he doesn't look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills."​


Too bad we can't ask Geraldine Ferraro whether she felt that Obama was exploiting his race.

Willfully and intentionally. Right. How's that bubble you're living in?

Get the plank out of your eye before getting the speck out of others'. Racists are in no position to accuse others of racism.
 
What are you even talking about? Have I mentioned something about a confederate flag or are you just failing at trolling again by not making any sense?

just pointing out your hypocrisy
 
just pointing out your hypocrisy
You do realize that in order for your comment to point out my hypocrisy, I would have to say something about a confederate flag - I didn't. You literally brought it up out of nowhere. You need to work on your trolling.
 
You do realize that in order for your comment to point out my hypocrisy, I would have to say something about a confederate flag - I didn't. You literally brought it up out of nowhere. You need to work on your trolling.

I apologize. twas my mistake. all you liberals look and sound alike to me.
 
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