1. It's interesting to connect the mean prank behind the Ben Carson exam story with current diversity struggles at Yale.
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2. Thanks to splendid reporting of
@BuzzFeedAndrew & crew we have a better sense of what actually happened to Carson http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/ben-carsons-yale-classmate-we-did-the-prank-test-that-carson#.dhb55azbko …1 reply 7 retweets 13 likes -
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3. So there was a kind of student prank where tricksters made it look like exam was destroyed. Carson & others victims.
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4. Carson as his wont re-imagined a story where he was victim of cruel undergraduate humour to redemption tale of his own triumph.
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5. Obviously Carson's slippery memory important but let's step back and think about how he must have felt in 1970.
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6. Imagine being Ben Carson in 1970. You're 19, black, child of single mom, family in straightened situation, in culturally alien Yale.
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7. You don't know the cultural codes at Yale, are very earnest, nerdy. See sign saying exam is destroy & you believe it.
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8. Everyone else figures out the joke before you do. And in memory you don't want to remember being the goat, so you turn tale around.
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9. Place like Yale, rich in "traditions" & lore, is much easier to navigate if your dad & granddad went there than if your a scholarship kid
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10. Current struggles over dorm rules & Halloween make much more sense if you realize same dynamic at work of "tradition" vs minority kids
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11. Carson's tendency to embellish stories to the point of fabulation is troubling, but the human story of his struggles worth sympathy
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12. Same with current Yale students -- who many are so quick to dismiss as PC crybaby bullies. There's a human story at the core there too.
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