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Originally Posted by timalkin
I really doubt that people qualified enough to be appointed are coming from dramatically different backgrounds. Wealthy families are more able/likely to send their kids to the kind of educational institutions that traditionally mold young adults into professionals worthy of appointment. It seems that wealth and social status are probably pretty close among all of the potential candidates, on average. That isn't really diversity, even if the skin colors are not white.
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I would encourage you to look deeper into the backgrounds of Obama's appointments...
...a first generation American and son of a Nicaraguan father and mother from Spain who spent his youth in Mexico, a daughter of black middle class family who grew up in segregated Washington DC....a Cuban who emigrated to the US as a child...a middle class white woman from suburbia with a public school education....a white guy from the NYC....a white guy who immigrated with his family from Israel......
Vastly different backgrounds and life experiences.
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But I am lost....first you complain about diversity, then you suggest they arent diverse.