The Supreme Court's Decision Made Simple 

Talk that talk, LADY BOULE!!! Thank you for always keeping it real and elevating the black community. 🤎🙌🏾

YES! We Are The Israelites! Psalm 148:14 &. 2 Corinthians 11:22 💯

Affirmative Action is NOT about race at all. it is suppose to be an attempt to address blacks intentionally denied admissions, period.

I would be very interested to know what this would mean for HBCUs considering many of them were struggling and in danger of closure (or _did_ close). This could hopefully increase student flows back to HBCUs, maybe even having an impact on college football... 🤔

❤Thank you again Lady Boule❤

Excellent commentary 👌🏾 Asians just practice test taking like mindless robots 🤖 😂😂

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 AMEN!!! I LOVE IT when we stand up for ourselves , being true to ourselves and being genuine. 💯💯💯💯

Black people just have to get it together. I mean we see how the cards are stacked against us. Even knowing that we shouldn't give up.

Lady Boule, I enjoy your channel. You give both insight and foresight into the issues of our people. Thanks, for reminding us of our excellence and resiliency. You encourage us to keep moving forward in God's plan for our destiny. We are truly a blessed people, and we bless others. Love and Light.

Great commentary, Lady Boule!! This is great change to this law. We have never benefited from AA and we don’t need AA. When they examine the data 5-10 years post-AA and Asians are still being denied access to these institutions, who will the they blame? It’s time for us to return to our HBCU’s.

I'm so sick of these people!!!!!

Doing for self is the only way for our people separation

Thank you! Everything you said is is correct.

Amen sister. Asian Folks have always been jealous of Our people but won't stay out of our community.

Based on this decision the court now needs to strike down gender and legacy based admissions as well. Colleges should not pad the numbers for females nor students whose rich Mommy & Daddy bought them a placement. College is a dying experience in America, it has largely become the 13th and 14th grade of High School or an extended party and does not hold sway. Many vocational careers pay equally well and without the mountains of college debt so many are faced with repaying.

They don't care about our struggles Jim crow redlining etc

Great article LB. Out of over 4,300 private and public colleges and universities, why focus on Harvard and University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC’s flagship campus), when we have those other higher education institutions that I’ve mentioned-including HBCUs, and Christian colleges and universities? UNC Chapel Hill and Harvard are not the only places where students can apply and attend, especially when the admissions requirements are more competitive and tougher

Lady Boule, you are so right about statistics v raw numbers. I noticed during 2020 and 2021 how stats were used to hide the truth and how upset certain people became when the truth of raw numbers was presented . Thanks for your commentary and background details. ❤

Sounds like the bk students were just better. The same rants were made about the NBA and U.S. Track teams at first and we see how that turned out. (R.I.P. Torri Bowie)

Lady Boule, that was some beautiful commentary on the Supreme Court decision, certainly as insightful as anything I’ve heard so far on other channels. If you don’t mind I’d like to add a couple of things. The original draft of the affirmative action law specified that it was specifically for Black people. But Congress refused to pass it in that original form. They added the word “minorities” to the original text which was then approved by Congress. Of course we know the powers that be can never do anything just for Black people. Kamala Harris said so herself in that now infamous interview. The other point is we need to remember a man named Ward Connerly who with the help of his white paymasters (probably the conservative group you mentioned that has been working with the Asian groups and the new Jewish Ward Connerly, Edward Blum). Mr. Connerly was the prime mover behind the elimination of affirmative action at UC Berkeley and the University of Michigan.

Dear Sister get your RU-vid coins with the double ads!! Love your channel!! Keep up the good work!

And have you ever seen one on the football field 😂

Justice Thomas is mistaken, college students are not stigmatized in anyway because of affirmative action, most students, just want to get out of college, with a good grade, and be able to get a good job, that's it, and losing affirmative action is nothing to celebrate, because it benefited black people, but we'll be ok, and will continue, moving forward

Lady Boule, you've done it again, with your truly Amazing self. Your teachings are so genuinely honest, and sincere. I wish I had a teacher such as yourself when I was growing up. I feel that it would have given me a much greater arsenal of knowledge to navigate this crazy chaotic world. But, learning is a process, and I am grateful to be amongst those who have the privilege to hear your thoughts on the events of Black people, and how we are affected in society. Again, as always, much love and respect to you. Thank you.

Every one but Foundation Black American Citizens of USA have been benefiting from Affirmative action anyway. Another thing a test doesn't tell you what one knows. Some people can take a test and pass it and still know nothing about the subject inwhich they took the test in. I myself just happened to know this. Because I'm a test taker. I can read and take a test and pass it just knowing a little bit about the subject. Another thing. Lots of people pay to go and study for SAT test And some have purchased those test.. So passing thoses test. Tell me nothing about what a person truly know. The problem is whom they have in control of the admissions to these schools can keep FBA out even when they Qualify to get in a lot of these schools. There in is a major problem. So that is a problem on whole different level.🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔✌️❤️

Amazing that it does not apply to the military academy.

"if you are a valuable member of your community when you are in high school, you will be a valuable member of you college community". Facts, you will be given the benefit of the doubt. GREAT point, Lady Boule!

I agree because black people who apply themselves will overcome. It's a moment of truth for them they will see. Moving on.

I so love your platform🙂 Affirmative action was meant for ADOS folk based on our lineage here on this American soil #Point_Blank_Period Therefore, affirmative action was not meant for illegals, immigrants (black, white, or yellow), hunchbacks, nor midgets. Furthermore, the students attending PWIs are (black foreign immigrants, Asian, and Latinos) and Asians&Latinos usually identify themselves as “no color,” anyways, and these people can’t use ADOS plight regarding discrimination when they all haven’t went through what my ancestors and their descendants went through (Chattel Slavery, Jim Crow, Sharecropping, Lynching, Mass incarceration, high unemployment, etc) #There’sNoFlatBlackness The ADOS ancestors built America (for free) not LGBTQ, black, yellow, brown individuals

They know black people have been and are systematically under educated at elementary levels and so forth

Stereotypes or prototypes? Think about that

I think that most people misinterpret what Affirmative Action is all about. It had nothing to do with grades. It's just about being given equal opportunity, and a levelled playing field. Because we have been shut out of institutions for no good reason for decades.

I've thought about something after listening to your video, if we are counted 13.6% in 2022 still even though we've been in America four hundred years it really appears that we're probably counted even less than human. That being said whatever figure they calculated could be based on how we're seen thence if 13% of us or the portion of us received money it wouldn't be much. I say this because of how we're being counted. I don't trust that they really did proper research how can you count a percentage without a actual number. And how can we trust their counting?

We’re happy that You didn’t let the disrespect in response to Your comments on other channels stop You from building Your own channel. The connotative definition of “Boule” seems to have changed in My mind because of the way You wear it. And so I’ll also have to revisit my thoughts on Jack and Jill, Frats and Soros etc. Institutions ARE necessary, I’ve just thought that the “Greek” model wasn’t a fit for US. My impression was that there was undo focus on the “Talented 10th” and that “They” seemed to be a little too cozy with or got “meritorious manumission” from the system of W/S. The “Greeks” in My Family were Teachers and Lawyers, but other than that didn’t seem to DO very much outside of Church for the “Community”. Definitely not rocking any boat or questioning the status quo. Maybe things have changed or I grew up watching a watered down example of whats really happening. At any rate I hope You’ll keep the name. Maybe bring some of Your Sisters (don’t disturb Ms.Kamala) and the Nupes into the light so We can see and hear some of their Works and ideas and dispel some of the notions the rest of us have about the role of the FBA Boule. We need all the help We can get from the Family. And Thanks for the break down on Affirmative Action. We haven’t really benefited. I say let it go. Let others swim these waters like We do.

Sittin back, chewing tobacco and tellin lies 😂🤣😂😭facts lady boule!

I for one am glad Affirmative Action was overturned. Black Colleges and other Smaller Colleges just need to improve their institutional infrastructure.

This was beautifully done. I just have one critique, Once the collective beings focusing on our objectives and succeeds I don't want them "coming for us". History shows that when they "come for us" they are destructive.

I'm so glad someone said this. We are the ones who created the foundation of what they know as education today. We do need to look more to ourselves and working with each other (aka their greatest fear). If we would take our eyes off of them and what they have to offer and have created (which is largely indebted to our genius and labor) we'd be astounded at our capacity and see our community turn around for the better.

I think that to address race issues in America like affirmative action is just stop asking on all applications the race of the person who is applying because with that information you can discriminate do you get it

That’s what the application process is/was. Affirmative action hasn’t been used based solely on race. This whole argument is a red herring! I got into UC Davis under affirmative action in 1990. I didn’t do well on the SAT’s. But I did do well in school. I was well rounded. I worked a PT job from the age of 13 and throughout high school and college. I was an athlete all four years running track. I was in Black Student Union. I was a student counselor my junior and senior year helping students resolve conflict. I was in choir at my church and I taught vacation Bible school. We also fed the homeless at my church on Saturdays and we visited the elderly at the nursing homes. I also grew up with domestic violence, parents with addiction issues (due to crack era) and family incarcerated (Jim Crow Joe 3X strikes laws, etc. In my admissions essay I talked about all of this. AA forces the university to take into consideration all of this. AA helped me get in but it didn’t do the work! That was all on me! And trust I worked my ass off! I got pregnant my senior year and still managed to graduate in 4 years and 1 quarter! My university is on the quarter system which is much harder than states schools on the semester system! I’m a Californian native. Had I lived in the south I would have gladly went to an HBCU. Or if the internet had existed back then making it easier to apply to schools and scholarships I would have gladly gone. Back then we only had two scholarship books that listed all the scholarships you could apply for. We literally had to sign-up to use it in the library for just a few hrs! They have really made it seem like AA also somehow did the course work for you. Everyone knows those standardized test are built with implicit bias. Many of my classmates who’s parents had good jobs were able to pay for them to get prep courses and tutors. I had no such options! I didn’t even know that you could buy such tools until after the deadline to take the test had passed. I remember going to see my guidance counselor. She asked me what I wanted to do when I graduated. I told her I wanted to either go to 😂Air Force so I could get my education paid for or go straight to college. She literally told me that she didn’t think I was college material! And that maybe I was setting my goals too high. She told me that if I went to the military I’d run the risk of getting sent to war. And that she suggested I should either go to the junior college or go to cosmetology school. 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️ Nothing wrong with either but the fact that she underestimated me and talked down to me was infuriating! I went back to my high school and gave a talk to some of high school seniors after I graduated and had done my internship at the White House! I made sure to pay that bi@! A special visit’ 😂

Asian people helped build the railway

If I was a college student it would be to an hbcu. I wouldn't go to ivy league school. Some might say "you would go if you were allowed". It's just that we take a lot of resources away from institutions that accommodate us.

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Affirmative Action is not a "remedy" it is more of a reparative and each reparative is individually assessed, so as far as how long was affirmatice action to last, well...this could have been assessed into the 400 year aoology reparative, a very looooong term, ouch.

Thank You for such a thought- provoking, truthful and great commentary.

I don't subscribe to the notion that Black students need to be seated near Non Blacks Students to learn

Boule also means a round loaf of crusty bread in France. I was hoping it wasn’t that…you’re anything but crusty.🤗❤️

I'm a member of omega psi phi inc. The reason why you were told so many bad things is that many of the D9 members have sold out the Black community out.

Thank you for explaining the Supreme Court decision. I enjoyed your presentation. Have a wonderful, blessed the day !🤗

Ditto, Lady Boule, ditto.

Lady Boule... you can be angry about the dismal of this importance precedent, but your points at the end about Asians are pretty brash. The fact is: *"they" are not organically coming for Black Americans.* It must be mandated through policy. That's why the EEO and affirmative action existed in the first place. That's why we see diversity initiatives pop after certain events, then get snatched away. While there are Black students performing at high levels, that is inadequate compared to the number of Asian students who do. Furthermore, we cannot "have our own" without space, opportunity, and cooperation. Black men are too focused on punching down (and punching) at Black women to have us be held accountable for leading the community astray while also submitting to them. You mentioned this dynamic at the beginning of the video. BM & BW...we're just really different right now.

Thank you for explaining, bc I never heard the term until Phil Scott was complaining about it. I was like, what is he talking about? He acted like it was something bad, but now I see it was just his jealousy. lol

Lady boule? Are you a Freemason? Thought I’d ask

Lol girl you got the University of Rochester in your thumbnail. What you know about my Alma mater

First of all, I do not believe that college degrees are the be-all, end-all for Black people, or any people, unless of course your only goal is to spew out, and to adjust your life to all the lies and omissions currently present in K-12 education, that are expanded on in colleges and universities. College is one way of finding what you want to do to make money, but we cannot learn what will free us, while at the same time, uplift us in a learning environment geared to create slaves, or better yet, people who cannot think outside of a white supremacist, capitalist "box," and that when applied copycats the same kind of system that murders and exploits. College, in my opinion, tames most people so that they cannot respond away from abuse and the myriad ways that it cripples us, self-hatred being at the top of that list. I know that most Blacks, and most anyone else will not agree with what I am saying, but I would merely suggest that we pay attention to the fact that most movements are not begun, or won, by professionals or scholars. In fact, historically, it has been this class that has disparaged working class and poor Blacks and segregated themselves away from them. W.E.B. Dubois, later on in his life, debunked his "talented Tenth" theory because he learned that movements that really transform the lives of everyone, as opposed to perpetuating and taking part in a corrupt, killer system, rise from the bottom, and not the top. I suggest we stop trying to "get in," and seriously consider "getting out" and away from what MLK would have called a "burning house."

The Black students who get in do so because of their test scores and academic performance. The difference is they are admitted outside the normal channels of admission. The ivies normally only select students from certain high schools/prep schools, but they make an effort to seek out Black students who don't attend those high schools, but have excellent grades, test scores, etc. What I find interesting is that they didn't post the percentages of the student bodies of the schools based on these same demographics, because the raw numbers show that Black students make up less than 10% of the overall student body.

I absolutely agree with everything you said.

Asians think they really done something, what will they do when you have to bring more than SAT scores to the table. Black students do very well on these test,athletics,entertainment, and many other.

Yes, build our own.

That has such of negative stigma attached to it but hey it might work in your favor. You do great work and I keep referring it to my friends.

Good content @LadyBoule 💯✌🏾

she was sounding good and then fell into a big pile of Boule at the end, taking her buddy Clarence with her.

Point of college is to be more attractive to employers who want smarter workers. Moving forward, employers will simply have to hire more kids from hbcu schools. Howard Spelhouse stock just went up ❤😅

I remember trying to get into BRAD college years ago, and I wasn't accepted. I then wrote a letter expressing my life history and articulated the extreme hardship I had been faced with, including that I was wrongly convicted and put into prison for 25 years to life for a crime I never committed. The answer was that it was a hard choice on the part on the staff, but that life was not fair. We are now beyond insane to think that these people care about our hardships, etc. Besides, the African who came here from Liberia or Sudan will always get entry because the opinion is that EVERYONE ELSE has had it much much worse than Foundational Black Americans in whites eyes.

Essays! Yes! Essay study can bring the students in touch with the the ancestory sojourn...whew...like the earlier blacks were! where all the genius arose. lettem get in touch with that! via these essays and they wont be so easily overwhelmed with that nasty stigma of free riding while black. Once students start studying to write these esssays and see in their own words what the roots of these sutuations are, they will likely loose interest and go for their own or go forth and turn the universities out with their own genius. wow.

Whose going to “ run with the Ball? “

First, regardless as to whether wazungu (white folks) are racist (general society; Supreme Court; right-wing groups like Moms for Liberty)), African-American *AA) students should apply to colleges where they meet the quantifiable entrance standards of the avg. student applicant pool. If we look at the synthesis of GPA & SAT, the overwhelming majority of AA students don't make the entrance scores of entrance profiles of 3rd tier PWI state-supported schools. HBCUs, especially top-notch STEM-oriented ones like A&T, Howard, FAMU & Hampton, do outstanding jobs in preparing our people. In fact, only 15% of AA students matriculating at US colleges to earn Bachelor's degrees are going to HBCUs; the balance (85%) attend PWIs. If the bulk of AAs qualify for HBCUs and community colleges, they we should make the best of that.

We are NOT “Black” that is a color out of the crayon box…AND it’s the title so-called “White” folks calls us. We ARE the scattered children of Israel. Deuteronomy 6:7 “ “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.”

Thank you, it’s all just memorization. If you spend most of your time studying, you’ll remember it. It’s that simple.

Yes that makes you boulee

Thanks, Lady, for telling us about the origin of your title and about your life. I had wondered, because what you say is not generally anything elitist or smacking gatekeeping, which is a common perception of the term boule. So I had wondered if you were being ironic or not. BTW, I myself attended Harvard Divinity School in the early 1990s. I indeed did not graduate because halfway through I was stricken by a chronic disease which still limits me all these decades later. At that time, HDS did not require the GRE but did accept the scores. I submitted mine. I can tell you most of our Black students seemed to thrive there, and many, unlike me, were from already wealthy families. In my case, my mother retired as a professor at Southern University, my alma mater. I will tell you that I had taught English in a Japanese high school for three years right before I applied to HDS. You’re on the money regarded the memorization. The students there also attended school on Saturdays for a six day school week. Some clubs even demanded Sunday participation! Top that with their breaks being much shorter than ours, and they graduate high school with a lot more schooling than Americans. But they are taught to revere the past and perfect the recreation of it rather than innovate. They were still bragging about how their culture and religion was based on China’s several hundred years after the fact. To me they seem to excel in perfecting that which they obtain from other cultures. My observation is nothing original. I also taught English at a cram school to wealthy Chinese students in Beijing in the late 2000s. I don’t even know how to express that time. I think I recently read that the proportion of Asians at top schools is already far out of proportion to their percentage of the US population precisely because of their grades and test scores. I can’t remember the source. But I’ve long heard rumors that they as a group tend to be less well-rounded as applicants than White or Black applicants extracurricularly. That’s just a rumor, take if for what you will. Anyway, I think White women benefited the most from Affirmative Action while Black people suffered the stigma. It’s time to focus on raising the funding of Black schools and addressing the social needs that hinder us rather than tell the top students they can use Affirmative Action to ease their way into White colleges and grad schools. They’re just competing with White women who mostly benefit at that stage. It’s time to address Black education from the roots, starting from pre-kindergarten, in a more effective way. Pre-start helps but they students regress soon after. Why is that? All the factors involved in from inequitable funding and facilities, hunger, discipline, expectations, poverty, that’s what needs to be addressed. It’s getting better in my area with the building of several brand new schools to make them more on par to the White schools I’ve taught in. Buildings aren’t everything of course, but not having to try to learn in raggedy, leaky buildings is a start that communicate to the students that society values them as much as the White students at the newer, well-maintained schools White schools across town. Equity, equality, and then this Affirmative Action argument need never arise at the university level.

Great video!

Lady. THIS IS BAD.

@16:05 Factual

Amen!

You're correct, that would be the time to explain how racism negatively impeded one's family's progress, however, the university may classify a person's explanation as CRT and then use it as a reason and a means for rejection.

Lady Boule, you are a wise woman and your bona fides qualify you for The Talented Tenth! Rejection seems to DRIVE the desire to want to be a part of or do something, instead of building into greatness and protecting our own. Our own includes relationships of intimacy, organizations, institutions, etc. Africans are the original people of The Earth. Superior or not, performance determines outcomes, regardless circumstances. Does Mother Nature allow\provide affirmative action for any group by putting her thumb on the scale of life?

I hear you and respect your opinions - Maybe the "Movement" should've never happened, and we go back to the " good old days" - Yes, we are intelligent people, yet, without real access "power" it's just noise -

Well said. Thanks for your commentary ♥. 🙏

Thank you so much for this topic sister this is your brother on the West Coast Los Angeles. Thank you. The sad part at the beginning of the video when you mention mean, things were said to you and your comments. It is sad when people are trying to help and you get invisible eggs thrown at you that goes for Dr. Boyce Watkins and our other scholars also that are trying to help the black community and you have mean people these trolls come in with mean things that are thrown at our people that are doing good things for our people. Those white Supremus minded people are toxic and I don’t understand them especially over here in Los Angeles. I see a lot of toxic people in my vision. I don’t know about other states and cities but I know here we have a lot of idiots and a Lotta good blacks also. Well, I only could say so much in the comment section but thank you so much for this video and I’m talking into my phone. I hope this makes sense because I don’t feel like typing.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to amlearn and achieve.🎉🎉

AMEN Sista Boule, a sermon well delivered.

Thank you for this great 👍 analysis

I think this ruling will definitely benefit FBA. Thanks for your commentary.

First of all affirmative action was more beneficial to others than it were to black people. However perhaps affirmative action that was supposed to be for black people has done its job to the point where we can now attend pwi colleges without having to have that affirmative action tool to allow us to enter into these once black prohibited colleges.

Great analysis of the issue Lady Boule!

All in all, commend the supreme court wisdom.

Thank you for keeping it real amen

Being a member of the black "Divine Nine" sororities and fraternities will qualify you and your husband as "boule". But in reality, it is much more exclusive that involves lineage, culture, money and social connections.

Great video and analysis!!!

Great video coverage Queen you spoke truth and facts the power this was a drop the mic🎤 moment for you Phillip Scott of the African diaspora News Channel did a great video essay on affirmative action concerning Asians keep up the great work

Using skin color as a negative and in a stereotypical way. Your skin color doesn't make you positive or negative, but your character does. Did you hear Thomas Sowell explaining the negative effect of accepting a Black applicant who could've done better in a different school than that school? You want more Black people to finish and graduate from Universities and Colleges and not to drop out. That is what this is about.

Racist woman rant.