Yeah I'm not sure I find this cute or heartwarming, no way a black kid could get rewarded for doing the same thing.pic.twitter.com/TDUe1d61o0
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Let's get into THIS thread, please!https://twitter.com/atypewritersing/status/849108149072273408 …
Not only could a black kid not get away with this, black kids are PUNISHED for supporting their own damn strugglehttps://twitter.com/atypewritersing/status/849110517264396288 …
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Black kids gotta figure out how to not alienate educational institutions when aligning themselves with certain kinds of movements.
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On my undergrad AND both rounds of postgrad admissions essays, I stuck to the corny bootstraps bullshit of being the daughter of immigrants.
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Because I had to demonstrate my activism without being too scary. I was way too wary of discussing Malcolm X or anything else "too radical."
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I talked about how lucky I was for my parents to be driven for me to get an education, how much luckier I am than cousins back home. AWFUL.
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And this kid - presumably with access to resources & capital - is rewarded for doing a thing we wouldn't even CONCEIVE of doing.
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That smarts, sha. That doesn't *feel* like an "ally." But call your politics & activism whatever you want.
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@tariqLuthun on why, in the broader scope of anti-racist action, Ziad's gesture means very very very littlehttp://blackyouthproject.com/why-stanford-accepting-the-teen-who-wrote-blacklivesmatter-100-times-on-his-application-does-little-for-black-lives/ …
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I mean, are they missing what happens to black activists of all ages and stripes for this?
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He got accepted for his GPA and SAT scores. Don't get it twisted.
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What a joke!
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Good. Because there isn't a struggle. There is no systemic racism. Just shitty people being shitty to each other
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@ztsamudzi not to mention he is supporting a violent racist movement founded on ignorance. White criminals more likely to be killedThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo -
wasn't that bw police officer fired for tweeting this on her own private page?
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