The boy is undoubtedly smart and and a hard worker. He is certainly far more musically talented than I am and it’s good that music has such a positive influence on his life and his intellectual development.
It is still a very pedestrian essay, earnest, self-serving with a veneer of humility, and not terribly original. It’s like the application essays my daughter wrote and like the essays most students write.
I don’t want to denigrate this young man in any way - I wish him success. But there is no way on earth that essay or his achievements would have won him admission into every Ivy League University if he had been white. (Unless he was a football player too.) And that is no criticism of Kwasi Enin, but of the universities.
Yours is the best reply. He is clearly a smart kid, but he had the one special advantage all the Ivy's seek - and getting accepted at all 8 is absolutely unheard of without it. It shows the bias and mindset of the schools. Regardless - Best of luck to him. God gives us all advantages at one time or another - we must make use of them.
Little barry bastard Soetoro is a boy. This person is a young man.