re: Teen accepted to 113 colleges, offered $4.5M in scholarships

Posted by member12

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Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:10 am to East Coast Band

Good for her!

Posted by momentoftruth87

Your mom

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Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:10 am to lsupride87

My point was that it shouldn't be called as such even given it's historical reason. I'm not racist at all. I'm the guy who wants equality. Also, grinds my gears a bit when AA members of society wanted statues taken down for their negative historical significance, but label schools as such.

Here ya go rebel. The grand wizard sent me this.

This post was edited on 5/2/18 at 7:10 am

Posted by eScott

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Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:11 am to GetCocky11

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Historically black colleges are open to all races.

And white people can go there as a minority.

Posted by Salmon

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Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:12 am to momentoftruth87

you have waffled pretty hard in this thread

you literally asked why we didn't have "white only" colleges and then pretend like you were not implying that HMCU were black only

Posted by momentoftruth87

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Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:13 am to Salmon

Okay so I was wrong with my first post.

I haven't called names or been racist one bit in here.

Sorry everyone ...

Posted by gthog61

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Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:15 am to GetCocky11

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B/c historically black colleges have a history of providing "college education" to black people.

You forgot the quotes

Posted by Zanzibaw

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Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:17 am to East Coast Band

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Harrison will graduate May 24 from The Academy at Smith in Greensboro, with an expected 4.0 GPA

Amazing feat in the war torn schools of today.

Posted by Salmon

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Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:17 am to momentoftruth87

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I haven't called names or been racist one bit in here.

I'm not calling you a racist, but the fact that you read this story, and your first post was the thing that you decided to take away from the article, says a lot about how you view the world

Posted by celltech1981

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Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:18 am to Rebel

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NICU Nurse

good for her. I googled Bennet college and saw it was a liberal arts college. I was just guessing. I'm glad she is going in to a STEM related field.

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She will major in biology and wants to become a NICU nurse.

found it. hell yeah

This post was edited on 5/2/18 at 7:22 am

Posted by el Gaucho

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Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:19 am to East Coast Band

My cousin applied for a bunch of hbcu's but they didn't take him because he was "too white". I told him to put his middle name on the application instead of "graham"

This post was edited on 5/2/18 at 7:20 am

Posted by ctiger69

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Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:20 am to East Coast Band

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Bennett College in Greensboro, NC

I have never heard of this school but good for her.

Posted by momentoftruth87

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Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:21 am to Salmon

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I'm not calling you a racist, but the fact that you read this story, and your first post was the thing that you decided to take away from the article, says a lot about how you view the world

Bet I've seen more of "the world" than you have.

Why is this even news?

Congrats a girl applied to a lot of colleges, but let's focus in and make it about race.

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Posted by PortHudsonPlaya

Houston

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Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:22 am to East Coast Band

My nephew graduated with a 6.8 GPA with all the honors credits.

Posted by GetCocky11

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Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:22 am to momentoftruth87

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Congrats a girl applied to a lot of colleges, but let's focus in and make it about race.

That is exactly what you did with your first post in this thread.

Posted by Salmon

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Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:24 am to momentoftruth87

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Bet I've seen more of "the world" than you have.

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Congrats a girl applied to a lot of colleges, but let's focus in and make it about race.

your first post

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Why do we have AA colleges but not white only colleges? Serious question...

Posted by Sasquatch Smash

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Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:24 am to celltech1981

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I googled Bennet college and saw it was a liberal arts college. I was just guessing.

It's clear you have a misunderstanding, a negative one at that, of what a liberal arts education is.

Might want to google that as well.

This post was edited on 5/2/18 at 7:25 am

Posted by celltech1981

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Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:30 am to Sasquatch Smash

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It's clear you have a misunderstanding

No, I understand it perfectly. I know quite a few people who have liberal arts degrees focused on philosophy or literature and they don't have very many career options. I also know people who have liberal arts degrees focused on biology or mathematics who never were able to do anything with them. If I was planning on going to med school I would want something other than a simple biology degree to fall back on in case it didn't pan out.

Posted by StupidBinder

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Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:30 am to GetCocky11

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That is exactly what you did with your first post in this thread.

I bet you he didn’t even realize what he did.

Some of the people here are amazing. They whine about “dindus” and “cultcha” then, you have a black girl who rises above all that and they still want to talk about her race and crap on her accomplishments.