# IS Julian Castro as Hillary Running Mate a Done Deal? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 19, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-julian-castro-as-hillary-running-mate-a-done-deal/720366 "2015-05-19T15:01:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 44
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-julian-castro-as-hillary-running-mate-a-done-deal/720366/44 "2015-05-20T18:03:38Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > He didn’t go to law school at Stanford. Did you mean undergraduate? Because, as far as I can tell, if AA lets guys like the Castro brothers into great schools for undergrad studies who go onto do well in prestigious law schools like Harvard, start their own law firms, and become mayors, congressmen, and cabinet members, then that’s a pretty solid argument for AA. Yes, I should have said undergraduate. My mistake. And it’s the same argument as against AA in general - there is no reason to believe that a better-qualified person would not have benefitted the same or more, and gone on to do the same or better, if not for the officially-sanctioned discrimination of AA. So yes, goody for these two. Tough shit for the other, better-qualified candidates who worked harder or were naturally more gifted than the Castros, and then got screwed because they were the wrong ethnicity. > [@](#): > > I’m not persuaded that Hillary is an AA candidate. I didn’t expect to persuade you. > [@](#): > > If you’d prefer “your candidate is awful in every way” type sniping, that’s okay – I’ll gladly offer that your candidates are awful. No, that was much of my point. **BG** doesn’t want to talk about anything negative about Dems, so he did his usual schtick of not-very-veiled accusations of lying. That’s too bad, but if he chooses to play that way, he gets it back. Regards, Shodan --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-julian-castro-as-hillary-running-mate-a-done-deal/720366)._