You keep nitpicking. Hypercritical selectivity.
I think "brilliant" is an adjective grossly overused. Especially to describe politicians.
Whether or not the word brilliant is overused or not is irrelevant to whether it is applicable to a specific individual and further irrelevant to your hypercritical selective nitpicking that has been well-established through exposed direct evidence over and over again. Here you are quote-mining Toni in response to me as apologetics for your incorrect presumptions. To review--Toni had said she was "brilliant and accomplished"--not merely brilliant. You then responded downplaying a lot of hard work and top-level positions and you continue to downplay her very hard work she accomplished and insult her university by calling it "ho-hum." You might as well be Donald Trump screaming that she's "BORing" on Twitter. My observations of your hypercriticisms didn't start with Toni, they started with your post about Laphonza saying you didn't know if she was born in 1978 or 1979, as if you were ripe to accept a new Birtherism conspiracy or scandal about her age. Residential databases have her birth year and month, though--just you don't. Your eagerness to take any gap in knowledge at all about her and make assumptions and draw false inferences into cynicism about her for some reason is well-documented. And so is the down-playing all her accomplishments.
She made honor roll every year of school from 1st to 12th. Did you?
My K-12 schools did not have something like that per se.Afaik, all you need is a certain GPA though. It's not a very high bar in high schools.
This shows you are so interested in nitpicking that you have not taken into account the evidence to which you responded later on--that she had become salutatorian of her high school and thus is not going to have the kind of minimum bar GPA required for honor roll (like 3.5 or whatever) but top of the line GPA, either 4.0 or very close to 4.0 like 3.99 etc.
Enterprise-Journal. McComb, Mississippi · Friday, April 18, 1997. Page 4.
South Pike High School Beta Club sponsor Sara Martin, left, joins student Laphonza Butler, who has been selected for a scholarship through the Beta Club to attend the W.E.B. DuBois Honors College at Jackson State University. Butler has maintained a 4.0 grade point average at South Pike.
Emphasis added.
Did MTG? Did George Santos? Did George W Bush? Did Hair Furor?
Is anybody describing any of them as "brilliant"?
YES! It's not just Donald Trump calling himself a stable genius either. Just yesterday I read a Fox News article and linked it in another thread. At the bottom there was click-bait talking about how GWB and Twitler are intellectual geniuses with extremely high IQs. While people believe that stuff, it's not really the point. The point is that you are choosing to focus on undue hypercriticism of Laphonza Butler and have been so since
before Toni's post.
She graduated HS salutatorian. Did you?
No, but my high school was #2 in state. Quality of students vary considerably between schools. A salutatorian in one school may not crack top 10% in another.
Generally speaking, and there are exceptions, salutatorians are intelligent and extremely hard-working. Being a salutatorian is reasonable evidence of intelligence and even in rare cases where theoretically it might not be, it is still an accomplishment.
She went to an historical Black college because she got a scholarship and in-state made it more viable economically. Did economics put a ceiling on school choice for you?
I also went in-state, and was on HOPE scholarship (thanks lotto players!), but it was a top 50 ranked university, not in the 400s. LMAO.
Using your "logic": Since George W Bush went to Yale and you only went to a top 50 university, he's way smarter than you are.
^This guy.
I bet if she went to Harvard you'd be screaming Affirmative Action. It appears she couldn't make any choice at all except to be invisible or you would offer unwarranted criticism.
I was asking why Toni thought LB was "brilliant". You have offered no reason why she should be described as such.
Of course they have. Salutatorians are generally pretty intelligent. Generally speaking, people who are selected to be President of an organization like Emily's List are smart people and people who have Director level jobs are smart. People who climb their way to President of SEIU in CA are savvy. You have to show A LOT of evidence to counter all this evidence, i.e. there is an extreme burden on you but all you've done is go "Nyahh!" It doesn't work that way, Derec.
And yes, racial preferences are a big problem in college admissions.
Next she graduated with a degree in politics and government. Did you?
I graduated with a degree considerably more rigorous than a "politics and government" BA.
Great, so you have a very narrow, technical focus and perhaps someday, someone who works for someone who works for someone who works for Laphonza Butler will hire you indirectly through a temporary contract giving you an opportunity in your technical field to get some cash money.
Then she worked up in ranks to President of SEIU in CA. Not a mere "organizer." Later working on campaigns. Director level jobs... Then, President of Emily's List, not a mere organizer. Yet you are there downplaying it all.
None of which requires brilliance.
Again, that was Toni's claim I disputed.
You have to be very savvy and hard-working to work your way up to these positions. There is a big burden on you to demonstrate otherwise and you have failed to meet that burden.
Were you ever in a professional leadership role heading up tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people? Was George Santos? Was MTG?
What's your obsession with Santos and MTG?
In other words, you don't want to answer the question. Things that make you go Hmmmm...
It's no wonder people like Newsom think the answer is to promise to select a Black woman. If people don't admit what's really going on and try to change themselves, then other people will try to go around them.
Huh? What does that even mean? What do you think is "really going on"?
You can't just deny evidence and then say you don't get it, Derec.