Former First Lady Michelle Obama has declared that Ivy League schools “scam” their students.
However, the remark is raising eyebrows considering her own attendance at Princeton as an affirmative action student.
Obama appeared on the Diary of a CEO podcast and spoke about her experience at Princeton by saying:
“Although I was an outstanding student, I wasn’t a good standardized test-taker.
“All those numbers said that I shouldn’t do well at Princeton.”
She continued by saying, “‘So I came in as an ‘affirmative action kid.’
“Sort of feeling like maybe I don’t belong in these ivory towers and maybe these kids coming from these other schools are really so much smarter and better than I am.”
She then continued by saying her academic performance at Princeton demonstrated her right to be there, but that still didn’t sit well with some observers who saw Obama’s comments as papering over her status as an affirmative action student.
Affirmative action is being soundly dismantled around the nation in recognition of the racist and fundamentally flawed idea.
This is in spite of the work of leftists like Obama, who want to keep affirmative action in place and further promote racial identity in academia.