If I was a poor black kid I would make it my goal to get into one of these schools.
If I was a poor black kid I would first and most importantly work to make sure I got the best grades possible.
And to succeed even with these tools is much harder for a black kid from West Philadelphia than a white kid from the suburbs.
Because a poor black kid who gets good grades, has a part time job and becomes proficient with a technical skill will go to college.
Dorner says he grew up in Norwalk, California, neighborhoods with small black populations and was "the only black kid" in his classes through seventh grade.
Are these the kind of people who tell themselves that their sons and daughters would have gotten into Yale or Princeton if some black kid hadn't taken their spot?
Tell us a little more, in vivid terms, of what the path for, say, Upper West Side, wealthier white kid, versus black or brown kid in the Bronx, in New York.
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Yet the kid with the black rimmed glasses and six empty cans of Red Bull on his desk is a whiz.
Kid was creating with his thrashing a rapidly expanding black pool.
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The story, which takes place in Memphis, Tennessee, concerns the transformation of Michael Oher, a black teen-ager whose mother was a crack addict, from a street kid to an All-American college football player, thanks to the intervention of the wealthy white Tuohy family.
"'Frenchie' did 'Vicks' a couple of times in practice and he told us 'this kid is not too bad', " explained Wasps' scrummaging coach, the former All Black Craig Dowd.
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