The tragic figure in this story is not Kashawn. It’s the unknown Asian-American kid from Fremont with a straight-A average and very high test scores whose place at Berkeley was taken away by the self-righteous administrators, who admitted Kashawn instead to fill their quota.
The tragic figure in this story is not Kashawn. It’s the unknown Asian-American kid from Fremont with a straight-A average and very high test scores whose place at Berkeley was taken away by the self-righteous administrators, who admitted Kashawn instead to fill their quota.
That kid will go to another UC school, get good grades, a degree, and likely follow the same path he would have.
The tragedy is that Kashawn would have followed a far brighter path in life if admitted to the right school. (I honestly thought this article was going to end in suicide - but that’s more of an Asian thing than a black thing, because suicide requires self-blame, and in the worst of black culture, blame is always externalized.)