Black Twitter is divided over the Muslim teenager who wrote #BlackLivesMatter 100 times on his college application instead of writing a personal essay — and got accepted to Stanford University. While some on Twitter have thanked New Jersey high school senior Ziad Ahmed for being an ally to the movement, others have criticized him for co-opting it for his own personal gain. “, you have to start confronting the space you take away from Black folks to center yourselves & ignore yr anti-blackness,” one user wrote. “This is so cool. Ziad Ahmed believes to be a Muslim is to be a...
- 4/4/2017
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
A New Jersey teenager has been accepted to Stanford University after he wrote #BlackLivesMatter on his college application 100 times instead of writing a long personal essay. When the essay prompt read, “What matters to you, and why?,” only one thing came to mind for New Jersey high school senior Ziad Ahmed. And on Friday, he received his acceptance letter from Stanford. “I was actually stunned when I opened the update and saw that I was admitted,” Ahmed said in an email to journalists at Mic. “I didn’t think I would get admitted to Stanford at all, but it’s quite refreshing.
- 4/4/2017
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
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