This op-ed should be required reading for liberals:
Ms. Liebau didn’t want to be selected because of affirmative action. She considered that to be an insult. This is a prime example of how really smart people overcome barriers. Ms. Liebau understood that if she wanted to be treated as equally capable she needed to compete on a level playing field. If she had gained her way on the Harvard Law review through an affirmative action program, it would have meant nothing.
Hmmm. President Obama was President of the Harvard Law Review. How did that happen? It seems pretty obvious that this was the result of the affirmative action program based on race and ethnicity described by Ms. Liebau.
It is interesting to note that she won a position as a Clerk for Daniel Sentelle of the DC Circuit. She was very specific in saying that the fact that she had earned her position on the Harvard Law review was important to this judge. She feared that if the judge knew she got there under an affirmative action program, he would have questioned her actual capability.
Prior to Barack Obama, the President of the Law Review went on to clerk for a Circuit Court Judge for a year and then for a Supreme Court Justice for a year. But, that changed with Barack Obama. He went back to Chicago to work for a private law firm. Perhaps those Circuit Court Judges and those Supreme Court Justices had the same opinion as Ms. Liebau. If you got the name without the pain it ain’t the same.
TDM