Mic and its hard-left allies are thrilled by this, but in reality it is a stunning indictment of Stanford University and further indication of how our nation’s universities are no longer centers for intellectual exploration, but only radioactive deserts of leftist recruitment and indoctrination. If Ziad Ahmed, with exactly the same grades and other records, had worked for Donald Trump and gotten his picture taken with him, and had written #BlueLivesMatter in support of the police on his Stanford application, would he have gotten in? Of course not.
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“Meet the Muslim teen who repeated #BlackLivesMatter on his Stanford application and got in,” by Sarah A. Harvard, Mic, April 3, 2017:
When Ziad Ahmed was asked “What matters to you, and why?” on his Stanford University application, only one thing came to mind: #BlackLivesMatter.
So for his answer, Ahmed — who is a senior at Princeton Day School in Princeton, New Jersey — wrote #BlackLivesMatter exactly 100 times. The risky decision paid off. On Friday, Ahmed 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. “I didn’t think I would get admitted to Stanford at all, but it’s quite refreshing to see that they view my unapologetic activism as an asset rather than a liability.”
On Saturday, Ahmed posted his answer and acceptance letter on Twitter with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. The tweet now has over 700 retweets and over 2,000 likes. It has also been retweeted by members of Campaign Zero, a police reform campaign, and some of its founders, Brittany Packnett and Samuel Sinyangwe.
“My unapologetic progressivism is a central part of my identity, and I wanted that to be represented adequately in my application,” Ahmed said.
Ahmed said his Islamic faith and his commitment to justice is intertwined. He believes he wouldn’t be practicing his religion correctly if he turned a blind eye to the injustices the black community faces on a daily basis.
“To me, to be Muslim is to be a BLM ally, and I honestly can’t imagine it being any other way for me,” Ahmed said. “Furthermore, it’s critical to realize that one-fourth to one-third of the Muslim community in America are black … and to separate justice for Muslims from justices for the black community is to erase the realities of the plurality of our community.”…
Perhaps it’s no surprise, though, that Stanford wanted Ahmed among its class of 2021. The Bangladeshi-American teen has already been making impressive waves in his activism work. At just 18 years old, Ahmed has already been invited to the White House Iftar dinner and recognized as an Muslim-American change-maker under the Obama administration.In 2016, he interned and worked for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton‘s presidential campaign after leading Martin O’Malley’s youth presidential campaign. In November 2015, Ahmed gave a TedxTalk in Panama City, Panama, discussing the perils and impact of stereotypes as a young Muslim teen.
“I’m thrilled to share my #TEDx talk that I had the opportunity to give in Panama City, Panama entitled “Our Age Does Limit Our Activism” — link is in bio — would mean the world if you checked it out + shared”Source: Ziad Ahmed/Instagram
He serves as the founder and president of Redefy, a teen organization of about 300 students around the world working collaboratively to defy stereotypes, and co-founded his own youth-centered consulting firm called JÜV Consulting.
Ahmed has an entrepreneurial spirit and often times that requires taking a lot of risks. It’s why he answered the essay question with a simple statement on behalf of black lives — because he wanted to attend a university that would empower and further his activism rather than stand in the way….
But one thing Ahmed is sure about is the reason he purposefully didn’t further explain the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag.
“The insistence on an explanation is inherently dehumanizing,” Ahmed said. “Black lives have been explicitly and implicitly told they don’t matter for centuries, and as a society — it is our responsibility to scream that black lives matter because it is not to say that all lives do not matter, but it is to say that black lives have been attacked for so long, and that we must empower through language, perspective, and action.”…
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Mark Steiner
7 years ago
Well, colleges and universities abandoned a previous role of sound higher education decades ago, so … when you pay your tuition and fees, remember you are paying to the business of higher indoctrination, not sound instruction.
given that it is always Americans and Europeans that are the only ones making scientific advances, they will find other places which will then be the new centers of learning. Pity to leave our jewels to these filthy people – they will destroy it, as they destroy everything
I once heard Chris Patton claim that other than Oxford and Cambridge, Europe had no universities of the stature of the elite American universities.
Now, admittedly, that was before the recent wave of immigration into Europe. I’m sure the formerly great German universities will be immeasurably culturally enriched in coming years.
there’s a grain of truth. Within the 20 best universities, 14 are American, 6 European, of these 6, 4 are in the UK (depending on the ranking method).
Europe has many very clever and educated people. But those in power are idiots. It’s now a dumbed-down, hippy, kumba-ya culture. About the same as the Liberals here in the US, although not so extreme.
With the continuing immigration, clever Europeans will leave or congregate in some places shielding themselves from Muslims, other immigrants and fellow dumb Europeans. I fear it is happening in the US as well, although diluting the intelligence of Americans will take a longer time because universities are private.
I admired the way my university propagandized islum and demonized Israel — I want my money back and they can take their degree and use it as a suppository.
How nice and idealistic, definitely a candidate for future therapy when he finds out that the make believe world of the condescending patronization of blacks stops when he is forced to face a reality where black lives don’t matter, nor will they ever. But, he does make an acceptable sidekick for white democrats suckering in the natural servitude of adulating negroes.
If Angola really did outlaw islum, I find them more courageous and intelligent than any other country on the face of the earth today — incl. Israel.
Liatris Spicata
7 years ago
I find this so irritating. I know a young girl who attends a magnet school and has received a total of one ‘B’ in her high school career. Unlike the privileged sorts at Princeton Day School, this girl worked in her parents’ restaurant three days a week throughout since 8th grade (Ok, her parents sold the restaurant three years ago, but she continued to work there). Her SAT’s totaled about 2390. Maybe a little shy on “extracirricular activities”, but she did go out for one sport.
Stanford turned her down.
Oh, might I add, she is the “wrong kind” of immigrant- Stanford has plenty of “her kind”. I consider it not merely irritating, but absolutely corrupt.
The ultimate dumbing down of our so-called “Institutions of Higher Learning.” Write a catchy, PC hashtag and prove you’re Stanford-worthy? How tragic.
dba_deplorable_trader
7 years ago
Thankfully I’ll be dead by the time this crop takes over in force.
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AlgorithmicAnalyst
7 years ago
No surprise at all, if you know how the admittance process works 🙂
ZXB4983
7 years ago
It probably helped that he was non white too because if a white person had done this regardless if they were Muslim or not they wouldn’t have gotten in to Stanford.
I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPEN TO THE UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND MONEY. REMEMBER A MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE. SO THEY HAVE REDUCED THAT DOWN TO THEIR LIVES MATTER ONCE YOUR BRAINS MATTERED? YOU SURE THE DEAL YOU GOT IN THE OH SO OPPRESSIVE PAST WAS NOT A MUCH MORE RESPECTFUL FOCUSED OUTLOOK ON LIFE. WITHOUT ALL THE DRAMA. Go to school was the message then. Don’t waste your mind. I see plenty of black professionals. Go to school work hard and enjoy your time on the plane They keep wasting EVERYONE’S time with the bathroom bill. So the NBA moved it’s game to support the transgender. What 5000 confused people have the power to move the NBA. Black people had tickets to that. Your lives don’t matter as much as where an it goes. How about the clean water we waste pooping in everyday. Not to bright. I am done with Jordan shoes or Oprah’s books or anybodies fake sports fame. I could put 30 quarters on my arm and catch’em all. Wow 20 mill plz. The referee’s interfere. This is all so crazy just make a place like Vegas for gamblers. If you want to be gay & weird go to gay weird land.This monkey business (No pun intended) NEEDS TO STOP. it’s a monkey toss poo show. Don’t bite on this let it go.
Our society is certainly going nuts and we obsess over the most trivial and bizarre things imaginable.
ZXB4983
7 years ago
When society promotes people based not on intelligence, talent, grades and hard work but rather gender, race, religion and sexual orientation, society is doomed to go down the tubes. Gee I want to be operated on by a guy who got into university based on him being non white and saying #blacklivesmatter 100 times on his application form NOT. What ever happened to picking for college admission the best and brightest regardless of who they are?
Tim
7 years ago
See they got you thinking us vs them. AGAIN. SERIOUSLY SERIOUSLY IF “WE” DIDN’T spoon fed this SQUEAL POWERED EVERY TIME THE TAIL WAG’S THE DOG. QUIT IT. THE JIG’S UP WE DON’T CARE WHAT THE LEFT DOES. AMERICA DESTROYED BY ONE KID. WTF. WE JUST WIPED GOT RID OF THE CLIARS B/HILL MURDER DRUGS ARM’S WAR MACHINE. Really just one lousy smart (alec) kid. He had nothing to lose. BFD HE IS GOING TO SANFORD 4 SOROS. STANFORD INSTITUTE IS A COMMIE THINK TANK. For years and Neocon’s like CONDA LIZA WAS A PROF there who taught history she didn’t even know that was so silly. He didn’t pick himself. They did. This Muslim it a dam genius. He just going to go there on a BLM he’s go there if Tickle me Elmo’s lives mattered. The dude just got into a university that’s going to cost money and he better study. He is going to have zero time and what is their going to be to rally around in 4 years? His “thank for the college your blacks lives matter I’m going to world now see ya” Don’t sweat the small stuff. be happy for the kid. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPEN TO THE UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND MONEY. REMEMBER A MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE. SO THEY HAVE REDUCED THE DOWN TO THE LIVES MATTER. USED TO BE YOUR BRAINS MATTERS. ARE YOU SURE THE DEAL YOU GOT IN THE OH SO OPPRESSIVE PAST WAS NOT A MUCH BETTER RESPECT AND OUTLOOK ON LIFE AND WHAT TO WITH OUT ALL THE DRAMA. Go to school was the message don’t waste your mind I of black professionals. Go to school work hard and enjoy your time on the planet.. Got dam where else is the world going if they keep wasting our time with the bathroom bill. So the NBA moved it’s game to support 5000 transgender mildly confused people. I am done with Jordan shoes Oprah’s books or anybodies fake lame fame. I could put 30 quarters on my arm and catch’em all. Wow 20 mill plz. The referee’s interfere. This is all so crazy just make a place like Vegas for gamblers. If you want to be gay & go to gay in your own land This monkey business (No pun intended) NEEDS TO STOP. it’s a monkey toss poo show.
Halal Bacon
7 years ago
based on this level of “qualifications” clock boy will be running NASA next week
Pray Hard
7 years ago
The financial, oops, I mean, “educational system” loves that moslem money.
Take a guess at who’s going to pay for all of these “educational system” failures.
Pray Hard
7 years ago
In a sense, none of this really matters, because if things keep going like they are, there will be no America, no “universities”, no Western Civilization.
Train daily in martial arts, firearms combat and military tactics.
Was this the awards banquet at the Special Olympics?
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Stanford has now joined the grub group of seedy half abandoned shopping malls with storefront universities catering to low cost, no prerequisite, no standards every one is a winner. The value of a degree from stanford is now the equivalent of a doctor islamic studies from the university of pakistan. Do their diplomas come on classic tractor feed printer paper that the perforated track can be torn off to make them suitable for framing?
Universitys have traditions that they uphold, at one time they awarded diplomas written of sheepskin, now, in honour of classic education, tractor feed printer paper is used, by sausage mills like stanford.
Lia
7 years ago
Perhaps Ziad is a lucky name? Perhaps Stanford took him because Ziad does not need any higher education?
Alleged Comment
7 years ago
Gotta brainwash ’em. They like him because he saved them some money and time.
Pantalones
7 years ago
I picture Allah with a salt and pepper beard,a permanent scowl,and him sitting on his thrown just fucking with us normal folk wtf?
santashandler
7 years ago
Wow. This piece of garbage must have gotten his “training” at a young age. As a manchurion candidate, he’s said all the right things, for someone in his position. He’s learned his script well. Now, it’s off to Stanford, that off the charts leftist proving ground where he will refine his “skills.” Stay tuned for this progressive to appear again soon. Not as a high achieving student but, as a “martyr” probably blowing up some market place, or mowing people down in a street somewhere. All the more reason, he should be dealt with immediately.
aemoreira1981
7 years ago
What were the rest of his application details in the way of academics and standardized test scores? That may have gotten him in already sans the essay, if it’s genuine.
Academics are only part of the story. Have you noticed that all and I mean ALL of the kids pimped by the media as having been accepted to ALL of the ivy league schools are minorities?
You missed the point. A white kid with the same, if not better qualifications would likely not have. Race DOES matter. BTW, regardless, these minority students, are by all accounts, overachievers and deserve a place near the top.
Getting back to my original comment; had he written ALL lives matter 100x, would he still have been accepted? I guess we’ll never know.
aemoreira1981
7 years ago
They would have needed his school grades, state test scores, SAT scores, and recommendations. He could already have been in on merit before the essay.
If he had written White Lives Don’t Matter 1000 times I imagine that would’ve been equivalent for the purposes of admission to Stanford (spit).
movingwaters
7 years ago
Now that Stanford University lapped up this stupidity with clapping hands, this moron can go on to start making all kinds of demands concerning the way things are done at the University. He will no doubt have to be given good grades, halal food, a prayer room in each building, and permission to molest unbelievers. And if he does commit some atrocity, the University will blame itself for not doing enough. I could puke over this article.
bannedquran20
7 years ago
Most of these higher places of learning are lovers of islam, their muslim zombies as well as wetbags (directed at illegal mexicans), followed by other illegal termites that are still hanging around in my country. Get rid of ’em all neighbor! God Bless America, The Land of The Big PX and President Trump!
pipo
7 years ago
Thus Ahmed did not get in on his merits!
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago
How many blacks hold positions of note in Bangladesh again?
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