This is so irritating.
I applied to so many schools (not 20 but a LOT) because you assume that while you’re a competitive candidate – you’re still not “good enough”
Did you see the look on his face? The disbelief and joy? That is exactly the feeling. But of course this newscaster doesn’t know how it feels so she wants to take the hottest college admissions take of the year and argue this bullshit.
It makes me sad that people get paid to get on TV and say this shit.
Like how much do you have to hate black children? To be mad that one person went on a waitlist because of them? The two schools I was rejected to I didn’t have to have a “sad conversation” with my parents (she argues this in the video) I just was glad I got into the others cause y’all convinced me I wasn’t good enough for them either.
She automatically assumes he didn’t work hard. Despite 20 applications. She thinks he “stole” it from someone more deserving. She assumes it was just handed to him. And why? BECAUSE HE’S BLACK.
She didn’t even try to hide her racism.
Racial bias is so deep that the mere image of a black teenager getting accepted to college elicits so much animus inside white people that they just make up nonsensical reasons for their anger as oppose to confronting their bias.
This isn’t going to be the first time this student is going to receive sneer and hostility for daring to achieve. No matter how much proof he has that he was able to meet the collegiate standard of “merit” – there will always be that “he doesn’t deserve this” and “it’s just because he’s black”
Water Witches 