ANNOUNCEMENT:
“Building on their longtime commitment to social justice, equity and diversity, Louise and Leonard Riggio have made a $5.6 million gift to Weill Cornell Medicine to establish a named scholarship for medical students with financial need who are Black.”
NO BLACK STUDENT IS PREVENTED FROM ATTENDING MEDICAL SCHOOL BECAUSE OF FINANCES. But how many future physicians who are actually capable of making major medical advances will not get funded because of this idiotic virtuous waste of resources?
Therefore, our panel of judges unanimously voted to give our "Upper Class Twits of the Year" award to self-righteous billionaires, Louise and Leonard Riggio.
“Since 1985 Riggio has been Chairman of the Board and 49% owner of MBS Textbook Exchange, Inc. based in Columbia, Missouri. MBS is one of the nation's largest wholesalers of college textbooks.” From Wikipedia
That solves that…Riggio was just paying the liberal mobsters another installment of protection money.
The delightful Monty Python video that Ann so graciously included for our enjoyment is really not too far off the mark, as the most basic elements of reality-based thinking have eluded these twittish donors.
They appear to be completely certain that their astronomical wealth will protect them from the results of their own gift, and they are probably correct. They and their children and friends for generations down the line will undoubtedly have the finest doctors on the planet ready at their beck and call, but it will be the non-billionaires who will be subjected to medical care delivered not by the best and the brightest but by those who won the Racial Politics Lottery.
How many decent, honorable people will be forced to needlessly die or suffer from lifelong injuries and complications from treatment delivered by people who might have been expert auto mechanics, truck drivers or assembly line workers but really weren't up to the challenges of medical school?
Dragging people across the finish line when they could never have made it on their own helps nobody and when medicine (or commercial aviation) are involved, people can literally die from it.
This is such an obvious assessment of the situation that to intentionally overlook it as these and other donors have done really ought to be a criminal offense with everyone involved prosecuted for placing innocent lives at risk.
But when vast sums of money are involved, common sense becomes racist.