What sucks about the situation is that the world lost a good one. The media interviewed his grandfather and he seemed to be a great influence on this kid’s successes.
>> The world lost a good kid.
Absolutely. Before I retired from the airlines, one of my copilots was the son of a Caribbean immigrant family living in the slums of NYC. His dad was killed in a horrible industrial accident; his mom worked three jobs to put her kids through college; he got a summer scholarship from the Tuskegee Airmen and got his start in flying; the other kids are also successful.
I once asked him “why haven’t you gone back to your old high school to share what you did?”. “I did, and was publicly humiliated as ‘being too white’ and an ‘a$$kisser of the white man. Once was enough.” Sad.