04/02/2018
By now, every time you see a news item about someone having gotten into every single Ivy League school they applied to, it’s a good bet they're black. They might be African black, they might be American black.
But black.
So of course Micheal Brown, now being celebrated in a break-out Twitter feature, got into all eight Ivies, and 12 more colleges to boot.
Twitter labels the achievement as "amazing", but of course it’s no such thing. It’s standard-issue affirmative action.
Brown had an SAT of 1540 out of 1600, which puts him in the 99th percentile. He had a GPA of 4.68 at his Houston high school (against whom? I wonder). We'll assume he’s a smart kid, but one with a huge racial advantage over the pool of equally-smart white kids.
The New York Times write-up, of course, includes no mention that Brown is black.
Alt-righters debate whether young whites should go to college at all, and if so, where. Learning a trade may be a surer route to fulfillment and economic success. College, of course, forces you to incur life-long debt for what’s essentially a self-perpetuating left-wing indoctrination machine.
But college is still too tightly tied to the machinery of social and political change that American whites need now. I say aim for Ivy. I observe that what Harvard and Yale want, Harvard and Yale get.