Although many people probably won’t agree with me, I think this is going to the worse thing to happen to black people in a long time. First of all, the life of most blacks won’t improve in this country – there have been studies done in cities that elect black politicians and they have found that the black community often isn’t better off after they’re elected. This is what I think is what is happening and I don’t mind if people think I’m wrong. There are a tiny number of black people who will benefit from AA including Obama and his wife who got degrees from the most expensive colleges in the world and although they claim they only recently paid off their college loans, when journalists asked Michelle for proof she wouldn’t give it to them. We don’t know their grades so it’s impossible to know if they were accepted over more qualified candidates but since neither of them will release their transcripts then I can assume they did. But many other black people will never escape inner cities, that horrible poverty where it’s almost impossible to get out. Only a few people benefit from AA – it doesn’t change anything for most of the other people.
But imagine you’re at a company interviewing candidates.
Candidate #1 – qualified, many years of experience, has worked in the industry before, older white woman.
Candidate #2 – probably qualified although refuses to provide references from previous job, only a few years experience, not that much experience in the industry, black man.
Who do you think gets the job and what message does that send to employees at the company? Candidate #1 is Clinton and Candidate #2 is Obama – if you loook at their policies they’re the same. I once read an article with their policies listed side by side and they were EXACTLY THE SAME. If Obama was white he would never have been elected because people would have been more critical and Axelrod knew this – it’s why he knew he could win with a black candidate.
I think people will begin to resent the fact that Obama got a free pass because of his race and this will manifest itself in very subtle ways when people companies are hiring people.
