Teen gets into Stanford after writing ‘#BlackLivesMatter’ 100 times on app

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Jackie Salo - The New York Post


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This New Jersey student’s unconventional approach to applying for college paid off for him.

On his Stanford University application, Ziad Ahmed was posed the question “What matters to you, and why?”

The 18-year-old activist from Princeton, New Jersey, decided to use the opportunity to write “#BlackLivesMatter” 100 times.

To his surprise, the answer caught the attention of the California school’s admissions office and Ahmed received his acceptance letter on Friday.

“I didn’t think I would get admitted to Stanford at all, but it’s quite refreshing to see that they view my unapologetic activism as an asset rather than a liability,” Ahmed told Mic.

He shared his acceptance letter and application on Twitter, where it quickly went viral.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I submitted this answer in my <a href="https://twitter.com/Stanford">@Stanford</a> application, &amp; yesterday, I was admitted...<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://t.co/R5YxM77bWL">pic.twitter.com/R5YxM77bWL</a></p>&mdash; Ziad Ahmed (@ziadtheactivist) <a href="https://twitter.com/ziadtheactivist/status/848215642385895425">April 1, 2017</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Ahmed, who is Muslim, said on Twitter that he hopes to use his time in college to continue to support the Black Lives Matter movement.

“I also recognize black students are often systemically disenfranchised educationally, & that it is my duty to fight to change that,” he wrote.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqXaHoAZrS0

[lost in melb.]

This is a joke, right? :-k

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Lukas Mikelionis - Heat Street


Social media users have slammed a Muslim teen activist who was accepted into Stanford University after writing “Black Lives Matter” 100 times in his application, with some saying a black applicant wouldn’t have been accepted.

On Monday, Mic.com published an article about Ziad Ahmed, a Muslim teenager who replied to a question “What matters to you, and why?” on his college application by writing “Black Lives Matter” exactly 100 times.

Ahmed was accepted into the university. “Everyone who reviewed your application was inspired by your passion, determination, accomplishments and heart,” read a letter from Stanford posted on his Twitter.

The student, who claims also to have been accepted at Princeton and Yale, explained to Mic why he wrote the slogan so many times on his application: “My unapologetic progressivism is a central part of my identity, and I wanted that to be represented adequately in my application.”

He added: “To me, to be Muslim is to be a BLM ally, and I honestly can’t imagine it being any other way for me. “Furthermore, it’s critical to realize that one-fourth to one-third of the Muslim community in America are (sic) black … and to separate justice for Muslims from justices for the black community is to erase the realities of the plurality of our community.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I submitted this answer in my <a href="https://twitter.com/Stanford">@Stanford</a> application, &amp; yesterday, I was admitted...<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://t.co/R5YxM77bWL">pic.twitter.com/R5YxM77bWL</a></p>&mdash; Ziad Ahmed (@ziadtheactivist) <a href="https://twitter.com/ziadtheactivist/status/848215642385895425">April 1, 2017</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
But not everyone was touched by such a virtue-signaling move from Ahmed—with some people suggesting that an actual black student would never be able to get away with writing that on their application to an elite university.

“Yeah I’m not sure I find this cute or heartwarming, no way a black kid could get rewarded for doing the same thing,” wrote Zoe Samudzi on Twitter. “When I/we talk about black struggle being used by non-black folks for social capital and material gain, this is what’s meant by it.”

She added: “This looks much nastier coming from non-black folks of color than from white people. Because they help meet the ‘diverse but SAFE’ quota.”

Another social media user wrote: “This is so annoyingly performative. Which black people are materially benefiting from him spamming #BLM on his app? I’m so unimpressed.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Not only could a black kid not get away with this, black kids are PUNISHED for supporting their own damn struggle<a href="https://t.co/6TunBw8Ckd">https://t.co/6TunBw8Ckd</a></p>&mdash; Zoé Samudzi (@ztsamudzi) <a href="https://twitter.com/ztsamudzi/status/849113115111202816">April 4, 2017</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Writer Roqayah Chamseddine noted Ahmed’s unapologetic defense of Hillary Clinton (he even has a picture with her!), tweeting: “That entire thing, including the photo with Clinton, makes me feel ill”.

“How is it that black teens who are administratively reprimanded for supporting BLM couldn’t get away w/an admission essay like that,” wrote Zaynab Shahar. “And the fact that a non-black [person of color] writes BLM 100X and gets the same spot at Standford (sic) the black kid who busted ass *might get*?”

Author Feminista Jones also added to the debate: “I’d be interested in hearing him get into more of the nuance of non-Black Muslims historically hating Black people/rejecting [Black] Muslims.”

[PorkChopSandwiches]

:facepalm:

[Goofy]

:yawn:

#muslimbombsmatter

[Muddy]

Deport this boy. Let a black Muslim nation educate him.