University of Chicago drops SAT/ACT requirement for U.S. students, becoming the first top-10 research university to join the test-optional movement trib.in/2JQZGCJ
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Does your comment imply you wish Harvard would do the same, or that they already did?
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Harvard and several other Ivies no longer require applicants to take the essay portion of the SAT. That's a significant shift in policy that the author missed.
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Thank you for making the point. It’s an exciting expansion of opportunity.
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Yep, for several years now, Ivy League schools have waived tuition, room and board for low income admits. These are positive trends but almost certainly too little too late to address the vast and growing wealth gap between Black and white America.
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I know. What would you like to be done next to close the gap?
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A massive reparations project is the only solution. White America will need to do some soul searching. Whites must must understand that, as a group, major sacrifices will need to be made to right the wrong.
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I’m up for that. I think we shall be a different nation, commanding renewed respect in the world when we acknowledge & right the wrong. @marwilliamson always says, ‘imagine where America could be if it was as spiritually innovative as it is commercially innovative.’
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America was founded on genocide, massive land theft, slavery, imperialism, Jim Crow, lynchings, [insert horror here]. I am more inclined to think that whatever that thing would be, it would be fundamentally un-American in best sense of the word.
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Replying to @kzshabazz @worldlibraries @chicagotribune
America was not founded on those things. The things you mentioned were a repudiation of the principles we were founded on. It is those atrocities which were unAmerican; our national repair - Abolition, Suffrage, Civil Right’s etc - is always a reclaiming of what is truly American

Jun 15, 2018 · 10:36 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson @worldlibraries @chicagotribune
Those values u mentioned are rhetorical used by whites to distort truth. White abolitionists didn't support social equality. Native Americans were annihilated&their land stolen. Africans were enslaved or Jim Crowed for most of America's existence. We're still 2nd class citizens.
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I don’t think it’s a distorted truth.They are simply the principles In the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The evils of slavery and oppression don’t make those other things not true. I agree about the 2nd class citizenship, but those principles are WHY I agree.
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