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Originally Posted by raycarey  well, well, well.
i asked for anyone to provide evidence that michelle obama had benefited from afirmative action, and jet provided the below.....
with most things involving jet it just didn't smell right. so i took a few minutes this afternoon and read the entire article. let's take a look at this in context..... Quote:
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.
Michelle recalls things differently. A campaign spokeswoman says she had an edge getting into Princeton not because of affirmative action, but because her older brother was there as a scholar athlete. She was a "legacy," just like any other applicant with family ties to Princeton. Her aides say Michelle earned her way into Harvard on merit by distinguishing herself at Princeton.
Michelle did well enough at Harvard to land a job at Sidley & Austin, a blue-chip corporate-law firm in Chicago
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OK, she got an edge in coz of her brother, who was there on a basketball scholarship (note, not an academic scholarship). hehe And she also benefited from affirmative action. One quote says she did, Michelle and her "aides de camp" say she didn't (too proud to fess up?). Ya, right. Maybe she just signed up for the women's basketball team.