Good Morning. I hope that you are enjoying this weekend with family and friends.
Black teen who applied to 20 top colleges gets full ride to all of them
Micheal Brown is the epitome of black boy brilliance.
The 17-year-old is winning big time after getting 20 college admittance letters to the best universities in the US, reports KTLA.com.
The Houston teen also doesn’t have to pay a dime after receiving full-ride scholarships to every school, and an extra $260,000 in additional scholarship offers.
It’s an extraordinary feat the scholar worked long and hard for.
“It’s something I’m proud of because I see my hard work paying off, determination paying off, sacrifices paying off,” the student told CNN.
Brown is a busy senior at Houston’s Mirabeau B. Lamar High School. He’s participated on the debate team, mock trial and student government. He might have an interest walking in the footsteps of former President Barack Obama since he wants to major in political science. He even once wrote an essay about a pivotal moment that had him in awe titled: “the moment I saw Barack Obama get elected.”
Brown’s got much work to as he looks forward to visiting the campus of his top eight Ivy League selections: Harvard, Princeton, Northwestern, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, Georgetown and Vanderbilt.
Brown’s mom, Berthinia Rutledge-Brown, said she knew at an early age that he was ambitious. He’s only had one B his whole academic career.
“After sixth grade, Mike was in control of his education,” recalled the proud mom. “He was focused, he knew what he wanted and he made his own decisions.”
Brown has connected with other scholars like himself at all of the top universities through programs like QuestBridge, Emerge Fellowship and Breakthrough Collaborative. Those organizations help students from low-income communities connect with higher education opportunities.
All babies deserve this…
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What a love!
Awe😍😍😍
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LOL Right, let’s see Michelle Obama get in the race for POTUS in 2020 and see what kind of support she would get.
FULL STOP
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The only kind of ‘black’ that works for them..
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Happy Birthday, Dr. Gloria Randle Scott! 🎈🎂🎈 (April 14, 1938)
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Da phuq?😠😠
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Students took their protest to the NRA headquarters today:
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“Protesters rally outside NRA headquarters to mark 2-month anniversary of Florida school shooting”
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/383179-protesters-mark-2-month-anniversary-of-florida-school-shooting
Good Lord. Look at their baby faces.
And a kittle child shall lead them. Amen
“little”
Thee kids are the ones being sent to the slaughter, like livestock.
https://twitter.com/wbaltv11/status/985228736734924801
3 WORDS
STORMY
COHEN
COMEY
Charles Pierce has a quiz for Anti-Trump Conservatives.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a19808876/never-trumpers-republican-party-conservatives/
“So, Nicolle, and Steve Schmidt, and Michael Steele, and Rick Wilson, and Joe Scarborough, and Butcher’s Bill Kristol, and Andrew Sullivan, and David Frum, and the rest of you. Please take out your No. 2 pencils, open your test booklets and begin. We start with an easy one.
1) Many of you have expressed your dismay at how Sinclair Broadcasting forced its local anchors to read a canned statement about the curse of “fake news,” divining, correctly, that this was the company’s way of delegitimizing serious coverage of the many and varied corruptions of the current administration*. In 2004, when Sinclair forced its local stations to run a meretricious fake documentary slandering John Kerry’s service in Vietnam, were you as offended as you are today? Were you public with your disapproval? Did you take your concerns to upper echelons in the Bush campaign and the Bush White House? To whom did you take them?”
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BOY BYE
Well, go on then. Take your happy self ON!
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Let’s stay on 45 POS & all his scandalous, thieving, conniving, criminal antics!
We know he pulled that stun last night to take the heat off his COHEN, COMEY ONE-TWO PUNCH!
https://twitter.com/ALT_uscis/status/985176851726458883
I’m on the countdown clock, waiting for Spencer or sycophants to yell, “
My femputer went nuts for a minute. I’m on the countdown clock, waiting for Spencer or sycophants to yell, “MAH FURST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH IS BEIN’ RESTRICTED!!!!!”
Tee hee!
Where’s Mitch McConnell? His precious GOP is steadily circling the drain, and he is to BLAME
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BWA HA HA HA
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Brilliant. I wonder why Japan didn’t warn the US a few days before 12-7-1941.
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Yep, totally premeditated by 45 & Putin.
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/985050773561192449?s=19
Love this so much. It was highlighted that these men WORK two jobs to make ends meet totally DISPES the myth of them being ‘lazy’
Add the stressors of racism to the mix, along with trying to make a living wage to support their families. That’s enough to raise one’s BP, stroke them out, and kill them.
Now these are “WORKING CLASS” Americans.
JUST SAYIN’
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I saw this last night and I’m glad its going viral.
This is outrageous. Waiting too long without ordering? Cops called by employee? Taken out in handcuffs?
Starbucks better fix this shit.
THIS. This was exactly what I thought after seeing this video last night. The return of Jim Crow.
5’7” Black Male
@absurdistwords
3h3 hours ago
Modern Jim Crow looks like a police force that doesn’t immediately laugh off a call to arrest two black men sitting quietly in a Starbucks
I agree, Liza. Very much like Jim Crow as illustrated by this sign from the past:
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The EMPLOYEE(S) who called the PO PO, need to BE GONE like yesterday.
And what the fuck did the cops handcuff these men for?
SUE, SUE, SUE, ALL THESE MOFOs!
Yeah, I know. The employee has some problems and needs to find another line of work, preferably not serving the public. But the cops? What’s their excuse?
Starbucks Coffee Verified account
@Starbucks
Replying to @missydepino
We’re reviewing the incident with our partners, law enforcement and customers to determine what took place and led to this unfortunate result.
8:27 PM – 13 Apr 2018
This is INJUSTICE…RACIAL INJUSTICE!
The Black men did NOTHING wrong!
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Just awful. RIP, Kyle.
Yet the po po responds to a 911 call to cuff black men waiting in a Starbucks.
This world has gone MAD.
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I wonder how many casualties there were.
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Rest assured that the people appointed by Trump will get steadily worse. They are all going to be bad people, really bad people, like him.
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Tell it, Joy. 3 evening in a row, on my way home, listening to NPR and they repeated the same segment about PBO & his “red line” It was eerily surreal. Same recording with PBO talking about red line, and then pushing 45 on what he would do.
The media is still dragging up PBO to give cover to this turd in our White House.
WE SEE YOU
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Good Morning,Everyone 😄😄😄
Good morning, Rikyrah & 3Chics Family!
We are bracing for 6-12 inches of snow in the Minni-apple region. **SIGH**
I had a chill reading this. A cold front blew in here last night. It’s APRIL!
Seriously, a foot of snow in April?!!!!!
But no such thing as climate change tho!
That much snow??
That is wild!