My son was a member of Mensa. He studied in high school, took advanced classes, lettered in tennis, work with the water study scientific group with NASA in the summers from the time he was a high school Freshman. A group of his scientific high school friends had a party at our house. When they left, the house was cleaner than when they got there.
He spent four years at Rice University where he was in Mensa. Yes, he was smart, but lots of smart people waste their life on drugs. Learning was his goal - not marijuana or PCP or Watermelon drink with skittles and cough syrup to get high.
I could apologize because he is white but that has nothing to do with what is inside him. He is a fine person and he did it. I don't think he has ever owned a hoodie - I'll have to ask him.
That black medical neurologist/surgeon (forget his name right now) followed the same path my son did. He studied and learned. What happened to that model?
I knew I was going to college from the time I knew what one was. I went, I studied, I got degrees, I got a job - had one all my life. Where is that model? Did I do it because I was white? No, I liked learning.
I just give up on this country, it's such a mess.