Commenter Calvin Hobbes writes:
The blacks, already touchy about IQ, will predictably be defensive and hostile when most of them are obviously dumber than those around them.
Michelle [Obama] may have been predisposed to this sort of touchiness, but she also spent an unusual amount of time surrounded by people smarter than she was. It probably bugged her that her brother was smarter than she was.
I’m not convinced Craig Robinson was smarter than Michelle Robinson, since his various careers haven’t shown proof of high achievement. But he has always been highly popular and made lots of valuable friends, like his Princeton teammate turned hedge fund manager John W. Rodgers.
Craig Robinson was a two-time @IvyLeague Player of the Year and three-time league champion. He ranks 6th all-time in Princeton career scoring (1,441 points). Brother of fellow Princeton grad @MichelleObama, he is now the VP of Player Development for @nyknicks. #BlackHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/yxe3DPEEuj
— Princeton Men’s Basketball (@PrincetonMBB) February 5, 2018
Michelle’s big problem in life has been that she also inherited her 6’6″ brother’s massiveness, but without his interest in sports. Despite her WNBA exterior, in her inner self she’s a petite girly-girl.
Then she goes to a fancy high school where she’s maybe 25th percentile cognitively and not competitive with the whites. But then she shows them by getting into Princeton! (Probably on brother Craig’s coattails.) But at Princeton she’s cognitively much worse than 25th percentile and only gets through by taking courses where gibberish gets a passing grade. And then she shows them by getting into Harvard Law! But Harvard Law is even worse, because there’s no dummy track and she has to compete straight-up against brilliant fellow students. And then she shows them by getting a prestigious Big Law job! But Big Law expects her to work her butt off at extremely boring Big Law stuff (that she doesn’t understand, probably) and where all the other lawyers are obviously smarter than she is, and she HATES her job.
Her autobiography should have had the title:
Village Idiot: My Life as the Dumbest Person in the Room.
But finally Barry gets her a job that’s great for her: lavishly paid with minimal duties, and a big office!
Michelle strikes me as an extreme case of what the mismatch phenomenon does to blacks.
I’m more sympathetic to Michelle. I think she would have liked to be a stay-at-home-mom and was frustrated that her talented husband’s long-shot political ambitions and the relatively limited pay of state legislators/law school lecturers meant that she had to go back and forth between being a housewife and working rather than just be a full -time homemaker.
In particular, sometime around 2000, the liberal Joyce Foundation offered Barack a salary of one million dollars per year to be their CEO, but requiring he retire from politics. This sextupling of Barack’s income would have been a dream come true for Michelle. She could have quit working and served as a traditional CEO’s wife putting on dinner parties and the like, which she was good at.
But he refused to give up his dreams of political power, so their finances were strained until his 2004 Democratic convention keynote address made him a lot of money on book sales.
Of course, affirmative action wasting a spot at Harvard Law School on Michelle was a waste (consider the huge number of talented, driven lawyers who applied for the spot handed to Michelle who wonder what their lives would have been like if they’d gotten into HLS), but at least it wasn’t Harvard Medical School.
