Now that we see what stealing a college slot really looks like, can we stop making students of color

Now that we see what stealing a college slot really looks like, can we stop making students of color feel like frauds?


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/now-that-we-see-what-stealing-a-college-slot-really-looks-like-can-we-stop-making-students-of-colors-feel-like-frauds/2019/03/13/84ba6856-45ae-11e9-8aab-95b8d80a1e4f_story.html?utm_term=.90c380973d59


Duh.

If the FBI’s announcement this week about the college-entrance scheme could be distilled down to a single word, it is that one.

Duh. Of course, higher education in this country is not a meritocracy.

Duh. Of course, wealthy parents who pay for their kids to have the best of everything in life would also find a way to buy them the best education.

Duh. Of course, all those people who have blamed poor brown and black kids for taking the spots of “more deserving” white kids through affirmative action should have been looking closer at who really didn’t earn their seats.

For so long, people of color who have attended elite schools in this country have felt the need to prove that they deserved to be there. They have accepted that no matter their grades or SAT scores, people will look at them as affirmative action recipients and talk about them, sometimes to their faces, as tokens.

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