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Jet Gorgon · 12-05-2008, 12:33 AM

At Harvard, she felt the same racial divide. Verna Williams and Michelle became friends in their first year of law school. She remembers many of their fellow black students worrying that white classmates viewed them as charity cases. But she suggests Michelle was not among them. "She recognized that she had been privileged by affirmative action and she was very comfortable with that," Williams recalls.
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Jet Gorgon Jihad Barbie Last Online: Yesterday 04:47 PM Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Near Libbies Posts: 12,477	At Harvard, she felt the same racial divide. Verna Williams and Michelle became friends in their first year of law school. She remembers many of their fellow black students worrying that white classmates viewed them as charity cases. But she suggests Michelle was not among them. "She recognized that she had been privileged by affirmative action and she was very comfortable with that," Williams recalls. Who Is Michelle Obama? \| Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 \| Newsweek.com