He's all-Ivy -- accepted to all 8 Ivy League colleges

If you can get your child in the right school, then the US isn't as big a detriment, but Europe does have far better elementary schools on the average.

 

I'm not talking about the schools, but about the external issues, pressure for not being black enough type of thing

 

Good point. I don't think the "being black enough" thing is as big a deal in Europe or internationally in general.

 

More Profiles In Achievement

I love these stories!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britains-smartest-schoolboy-11-year-old-boy-4056609

 

wow.
while not all kids will be that smart

it helps if the parents read to their child starting at infancy and beyond at keast one small book a day.

 

Not all humans will be that smart, lol. I just like seeing examples of success. I wish we had a literacy campaign like what was done in much of the developing world in the 60s.

 

Five African Americans Named Rhodes Scholars

http://www.jbhe.com/2014/12/five-african-americans-named-rhodes-scholars/

The Rhodes Trust has announced the latest class of 32 American students who will study at the University of Oxford as Rhodes Scholars. Being named a Rhodes Scholar is considered among the highest honors that can be won by a U.S. college student.


The scholarships were created in 1902 by the will of Cecil Rhodes, an industrialist who made a vast fortune in colonial Africa. According to the will of Rhodes, applicants must have “high academic achievement, integrity of character, a spirit of unselfishness, respect for others, potential for leadership, and physical vigor.”


In 1907 Alain LeRoy Locke, later a major philosopher and literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance, was selected as a Rhodes Scholar to study at Oxford University. It is generally believed that at the time of the award the Rhodes committee did not know that Locke was Black until after he had been chosen. It would be more than 50 years later, in 1962, until another African American would be named a Rhodes Scholar. That year, John Edgar Wideman, now a famed author as well as a professor at Brown University, was selected.

Other African Americans who have won Rhodes Scholarships include Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law School, Kurt Schmoke, former mayor of Baltimore, and Franklin D. Raines, former director of the Office of Management and Budget and former CEO of Fannie Mae. In 1978 Karen Stevenson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was the first African-American woman selected as a Rhodes Scholar.


This year’s class of Rhodes Scholars was chosen from a pool of 877 students who were endorsed by 305 different colleges and universities. There were 207 finalists from 86 colleges and universities that were selected in 16 different geographic districts. Two students from each district were chosen as Rhodes Scholars. Students can enter the competition in the district in which they reside or the district where they attended college.


Of this year’s 32 American Rhodes Scholars, it appears that five are African Americans.


(L to R) Robert A. Fisher, Rachel V. Harmon, Ridwan Y. Hassen, Tayo A. Sanders II, and Sarah E. Yerima


Robert A. Fisher is a senior at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is majoring in political science with minors in history and Africana studies. He previously won a Truman Scholarship. Fisher is the student body president at the university and has a perfect academic record. Fisher will study for a master’s degree in comparative social policy at Oxford.


Rachel V. Harmon is from Champaign, Illinois. She is a senior at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she is majoring in industrial and labor relations. Before starting her college career, Harmon was an AmeriCorps volunteer at a rural elementary school in the Mississippi Delta. She plans on studying for a master’s degree in evidence-based social policy at Oxford.


Ridwan Y. Hassen is a senior at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Hassen is majoring in computer science with an emphasis on neuroscience. He began his college career at Emory University and transferred to Dartmouth after two years. He is the son of refugees from Somalia and Ethiopia. At Dartmouth, he is a member of the Endurance Racing Team. Hassen is planning to pursue a master’s degree in public policy at Oxford.


Tayo A. Sanders II is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where he is majoring in materials science. Sanders previously won a Goldwater Scholarship. Sanders has conducted research in the nanomaterials laboratory at the University of Strasbourg in France. Sanders is a triathlete. At Oxford, Sanders plans to earn a Ph.D. in materials science.


Sarah E. Yerima is a senior at Princeton University in New Jersey. She is majoring in sociology. During the summer of 2013, Yerima completed an intensive program in Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro. She will enroll in a two-year, master’s degree program in politics at Oxford. After studying at Oxford, Yerima plans to enter a joint J.D./Ph.D. and hopes to become a professor of law.

 

The scholarships were created in 1902 by the will of Cecil Rhodes:smt009

An anti African genocidal murderer.

That's like a jew accepting an Adolph Hitler scholarship.

 

It's a free education at the top school in the world. Knock it off fam.

 

Everybody has a price after all

 

But by that logic black people should only go to HBCUs and only work at black owned businesses and should never participate in politics, should only watch movies with blacks in them etc
Do we really want to argue for segregation?

 

The David duke award for best apologist goes too.......

Take a bow negro

 

lol

 

Wake me up when the Jews start accepting awards and prizes from the Joseph goebbels foundation

 

Well here's the thing the Jew's oppressors live in an another country, the vast majority of the shit done to them was done in Europe not here in the US. For blacks it's completely different, so unless you're suggesting we all pack up leave its an apple and oranges thing.

 

Oh I'm sure there are still plenty of Jews living in Germany...but you'd never see them lining up for a scholarship in the name of a nazi, no matter how destitute they were

I think it's partly because nazi history is so well known and universally condemned...whereas many people probably don't know the history of Rhodes...

Plus fuck it rhodes was only racist against blacks anyway so it's alright

Oxford here I come!

On the other hand...it's a good thing. Racist mining giant forced to fund the education of gifted blacks. He'd roll in his grave if he knew what was going down in his name

 

But you can say the same for most institutions from education to clothing. There's a history of oppression against blacks in everything. In this competitive ass world an education from oxford is like getting a ferrari while most mofos are still trying to figure out how to peddle that bike uphill.
Not a single black person should work for Wall St. a lot of those old institutions were instrumental in the slave trade and made a lion's share of their wealth from it but I don't see anyone telling black MBAs to give up those six figure salaries and seven figure bonuses.

 

What did I say that was not true?

Fam

Not a Jew in the WORLD would accept a scholorship in Hitler's name...free education or not.

 

Stop reaching.

The fact so many Black people don't see anything wrong with a Rhodes scholarship only shows how sick and insignificant we are and will remain.

I can't wait for the Darren Wilson and George Zimmerman scholarships.

 

thats for sure.

i also think people really dont understand the power of thier influence as a parent