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Local Fox anchors bash black student who got into 20 colleges

US news April 9, 2018
The anchors received backlash after they called 17-year-old Michael Brown's decision to apply to 20 colleges "obnoxious." Brown applied to 20 top schools and got a full-ride-scholarship to all of them.
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· 2 Apr 2018

Micheal Brown, a Texan teenager, applied to 20 colleges and got into all of them.

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· 7 Apr 2018

Here's a new one: Local Fox anchors criticized this Black teen for working TOO hard

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· 8 Apr 2018

White people: GO TO COLLEGE, PULL YOURSELF UP BY YOUR BOOT STRAPS AND WORK HARD Black Kid: ok! White people:

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· 9 Apr 2018

This doesn’t “take a space or a scholarship” away from ANYONE. Yale isn’t going to suddenly enroll only 1,499 freshmen or only give $4,950,000 in financial aid if this kid goes to Stanford instead. This is straight up, poorly coded, bigotry.

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· 8 Apr 2018
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Not only do you have to pay for the applications but you must write essays for each of these schools, many times, esp. prestigious colleges such as these 2-3 essays. Very time consuming and nerve wracking. It's a shame on them.

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· 9 Apr 2018
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some of those schools require interviews, too. This was hours and hours of work put in.

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· 8 Apr 2018

Lol so now we are preaching mediocracy? Miss me w/ that BS. Let's support each other... please 🤦🏿‍♂️

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Here's a new one: Local Fox anchors criticized this Black teen for working TOO hard
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· 9 Apr 2018

For those who don't know or don't believe this concept, the anchors are displaying a good example of a microaggression. Trust me on it, as someone who was told on a number of occasions in my youth that I was "the smartest Black person" met by friends, faculty, etc.

White people: GO TO COLLEGE, PULL YOURSELF UP BY YOUR BOOT STRAPS AND WORK HARD Black Kid: ok! White people:
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· 9 Apr 2018

BTW: The exceptional young man's name: Michael Brown.

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· 8 Apr 2018

Michael Brown, I wish you would’ve applied to 30 schools. Keep shining- you’re an inspiration to black and brown kids all over. Perhaps you could call it a representation of the fact so many of us have to work twice as hard to get half of what others get...

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