White privilege and hypocrisy are at the center of college admission scandal

The college admissions scandal uncovered by the U.S. Justice Department speaks illegally to the white affirmative action this country accepts legally every day. Even as a few bad actors and actresses are rounded up for letting white privilege and helicopter parenting hurtle off the rails, the bullet train of privilege still speeds onto campus. African-Americans largely remain on rickety rails, with opportunity often still derailed.

It would be amusing, if the impact on others was not so serious, to pity this pained class of Americans who are not rich enough to legally wedge their kid onto campus by donating millions for buildings and endowed chairs but are rich enough to pay a scammer $250,000 o $400,000 to bribe sports coaches and provide fraudulent academic data to admissions officers…LEGGI TUTTO