This isn’t a class of organizing fellows fresh off a two day campaign bootcamp. This is the goddam VIP section in the dubstep tent. For a Presidential administration that enjoys stressing diversity by executive order, they sure do hire a lot of people who look like they should be taking your Credo card at Whole Foods and packing your organic cheese selections into NPR reusable totes.
Our group of incredible summer organizers just completed their two-day training and are #firedup! #Fellows2012twitter.com/OFA_CO/status/…
— Obama for America CO (@OFA_CO) June 18, 2012
It was nice of them to let that one black kid sit in the front.
Notice that sh*t was Instagram-ed? You can tell by the filter. And how the kids on the periphery are shaded in the dismal grey of their financial future.
To be fair, there was also 1 Asian and 2 Hispanics in the picture too (or 2 Asians and 1 Hispanic – depending on what you think the girl at the edge of the picture is (it’s hard to tell))
Some of those kids look to be in middle school. How old do you have to be to serve as an Obama fellow? They don’t have age restrictions on the online application.
https://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fall-fellows-cover?source=20110723_se_misc&utm_medium=email&utm_source=obama&utm_campaign=20110723_se_misc
The daughter of one of my former bosses (she was a major liberal) participated last year. She was 16.
Interesting how these policies seem to go against the internship rules that the Obama Admin was so determined to enforce several years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html?_r=1
They clearly state that this is an unpaid program and full-time fellows will work 40+ hours a week. Hmmmm….
These kids don’t look like white hipsters–they look like a group of suburban high schoolers.