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Issue: 782

March 28, 2019

Guest Commentary

White Privilege, Wealthy White Privilege and the Marginalized: The Elite College Admissions Scandal

By Al-Tony Gilmore Guest Commentator

The advice that has been given for generations will soon have no currency with the millennials. Admonishing their children that the playing field can be leveled by working twice as hard is no longer credible. It is also dishonest.

The elite college admissions cheating scandal could not have been exposed at a better time, since it does not involve the usual suspects : black students…

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