You can't complain about being accused of spreading white supremacist rhetoric at the start of your post then go on to blurt out a bunch more white supremacist rhetoric in the rest of your post...
Surely there is some way you can feel ok about yourself without trying to hurt others for no reason, isn't there?
You're making a false equation, which is this:
Truth = white supremacist rhetoric.
Did Obama earn honors at Columbia? No, he did not. Is this white supremacist rhetoric?
Did Harvard have affirmative action programs when Obama was admitted? Yes, they did. Is this white supremacist rhetoric?
Here is what we know about the 1990 LSAT test takers, direct from a
report issued by the LSAT organization. This is as close to the date of Obama's admission that I can find.
Total male test takers: 21,500
Total test takers: 40,027
Total black male test takers: 886
Total black female test takers: 1293
Means Scores by group & Standard Deviation:
Men: 32.87 & 8.11
Women: 31.95 & 8.06
Asian: 32.16 & 8.74
Black: 24.11 & 8.44
Caucasian: 33.33 & 7.54
Hispanic:28.68 & 8.68
Puerto Rican: 25.68 & 9.73
Mexican American: 27.89 & 8.56
This data give us some good material and from it we can build a distribution table.
In the entire nation, 86.26% of all black LSAT takers were below the white mean score. This means that Obama would have to be in the top 13.75% of all black LSAT test takers just to put him squarely in the middle of the pack of white LSAT test takers.
To put this another way, of all of the LSAT takers, let's use whites as comparison group because they had the highest mean score and the lowest SD of all the groups, meaning that they are going to be the most competitive group when applying to elite law schools.
There were 31,539 white test takers, with a mean score of 33.33 and a SD of 7.54. There were 16,770 white students who scored above 33.33 on the LSAT. There were 300 black students who scored at, or higher, than the white mean of 33.33.
If we go to the 1 SD level above the white mean, a score of 40.87, assuming a normal distribution, there were 4,367 white students who scored at that level or higher. There were, in that year, 97.647% of black students who scored lower than 40.87, meaning that there were only 51 students who earned a score of 40.87 or higher.
If we bump the threshold up to Harvard territory, say the top 5% of students then the figures for the top 5% of white students would put them at the 45.732 LSAT score of 48. Call it 46. This translates into 1,577 white students who've earned that score. For black students in that year, 99.479% scored below that number, meaning that 0.521% score at, or above, the top 5% of white students, or only 11 black students in the entire nation could match the 1,577 white students who scored in the top 5%.
The numbers after this point start to break down because we don't have the LSAT proprietary percentile rankings to discern how they break down the top 5% into smaller increments. Take note of the ever growing ratio of White:Black as we climb the percentile rank:
2183 Black test takers
31,539 white test takers,
ratio of 14.4475:1
At the 50th white percentile, the ratio was
16,770 white test takers
300 black test takers
ratio of 55.9:1
At the 84th percentile, the ratio was
4,367 white test takers
51 black test takers
ratio of 85.62:1
At the 95th percentile, the ratio was
1,577 white test takers
11 black test takers
ratio of 143.36:1
What was the mean LSAT score of Harvard Law School back when Obama applied? I don't know because I can't find the data. However, that data is available for more recent classes, so we can use that to guide our analysis.
Currently, the mean LSAT score for Harvard is
172 from a total score of 180. This puts the mean score at the
98.6 percentile. This means that the mean score of the current Harvard Law class puts them into the top 1.4% of all LSAT test takers.
In the entire nation in 1990 there were only 11 black LSAT test takers who could match the performance of the top 5% of white test takers. The mean test score of recent Harvard Law students puts them in the top 1.4% of all LSAT test takers.
If the ratio of white:black for the top 5% was 143:1 and there were only 11 black students who met that threshold, then it approaches a statistical certainty that there were no black students who placed in the top 1.4% of all test takers.
Of all the black LSAT test takers in 1990, I highly doubt that Obama would have qualified to reach that level if he had sat for the test that year.
The conclusion that Obama is an affirmative action case is pretty damn strong. He didn't qualify for admission to Harvard Law School based on his grades at Columbia because he never even made honor roll there. It pushes the limits of credibility to suppose that Obama made up for lackluster Columbia grades by knocking his LSAT out of the park. There just aren't that many black students who reach the upper realms of intelligence.
Conclusion: Obama was admitted because he was black.
