Re: Remaking Michelle
18th June 2008
At every step of her career, race has been central to her own identification and upward mobility. Judging from the quality of thinking and writing exhibited in her Princeton thesis, Michelle would not likely have been admitted to Princeton (and later Harvard Law) had she been white. And of course affirmative action opened up jobs, first in a prestigious law firm and later as the vice president of community affairs at the University of Chicago medical center-earning $300,000 a year.
In other words, everything she’s gotten in life has been because of her skin color rather than any personal merit.
In that she is the perfect partner for her husband, who wouldn’t even have been considered for the Democratic nomination, much less the Presidency, were it not for his skin color.