FLVOL_79
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I hope you didn't waste all that natural talent on becoming an attorney.I was a U.S. Presidential Scholar, which is where the Department of Education selects one boy and one girl from each state (probably looser on gender now) and fly them to DC for a week. We stayed at Georgetown, had a banquet where Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke to us, at one point we met with Biden on the White House lawn and Reggie Love was asking which of us were going to Duke. They also pick a number of arts scholars, who got to perform in the Kennedy Center and blew all of us away. And to even receive an application for this program, you have to have something like 33+ on the ACT and 1450+/2200+ or something like that on the SAT. But sure, feel free to think what you want
That's the thing that gets me. The ones doing the killing and hurting others, they don't care about black lives. They want an excuse to be violent, and they don't care who they hurt.The parents comments were interesting. They did just lose a child so this isn't an attack. But they said something along the lines of, "we are on your side." As if this would be ok otherwise. It's like they think there's a war and in some cases this could be justified.
I just hope I don't take a wrong turn one day.
I don't think we are the best by a mile. Really the only people who say that are usually making excuses for not trying to actually fix our problems