“Of course it was her race that got her in”

Just a quick rant.
I usually don’t read comments on stories on AOL News or linked from AOL Today. There’s always horrible people there. But I thought this would be a story that no one could trash. A homeless student is heading to Harvard. The student happens to be a black girl, so to several people she only got accepted because of her race. It certainly had nothing to do with the fact she graduated fourth in her class, her GPA is slightly below 4.0 and scored in the 99th percentile on state exams. Yeah, it was just her race that got her accepted to an Ivy League school.

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