“traditionally reserved for a top student”

But this time we reserve it for a BLACK MAN because they deserve our pity.

I meant to say our “affirmative action”, but “pity” came out instead. Hah. Sorry about that. I must resign my post and end my career. Heh. Sucks to be me. I am white.

Obama’s viewpoint on the hiring prospects for black college graduates is so far from reality that it’s really pathetic. The hiring prospects for intelligent and qualified black graduates with advanced degrees such as an MBA or a JD have been extremely good going back even to the 1970s. My dad went to a very average quality university to get his graduate degree in the mid 70’s, and he told me that even then all of his black classmates had multiple job offers before graduation, no matter whether they were at the top or the bottom of the class, while it was a much more mixed situation for the white students in the same graduating class. White students at the top of the class were all set with job offers, but those in the middle or bottom of the class had a lot more work to do to find a job. He admitted this to me only reluctantly, since he has been a Democrat all his life.

I was quite shocked that this kind of environment existed going back that far. I always thought that my parents couldn’t relate to what I have seen going on in the professional job marketplace during my own career (i.e. being a minority is an advantage, and being white is a disadvantage).

I have also talked to one black professional in his late 50’s who is quite up front about the fact that for at least one of the positions he has held during his career, the company hiring him “was looking for a minority.”

Of course people who attend the top universities and earn top grades get the best jobs.

It’s called capitalism, Obama.

Otherwise, why bother to work hard throughout high school so you can get into a good university and then bust your butt in university to get good grades, and then spend longer paying off student loans, if people from lousy schools with lousy grades get the same jobs?

That sounds a lot like socialism to me. And if black mediocre students get the top jobs instead of the best white students, that’s racism.

I’ve got news for you, Obama: I’ve been part of the hiring process for a variety of jobs and no one wants to hire mediocre people. The good ones have to work harder to take up the slack and it drags the company down.

Does Obama want the entire United States to be run like a unionized, government-funded workplace?