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大家围观一下美国当代的白卷英雄,一个穆斯林娃在申请普林斯顿申请书上写了一百个#blacklifematter, 被录取了!When Ziad Ahmed was asked "What matters to you, and why?" on his Stanford University application, only one thing came to mind: #BlackLivesMatter.2 q- M6 f) e/ _! H
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So for his answer, Ahmed — who is a senior at Princeton Day School in$ ?6 P+ U0 K7 c+ J2 n4 J
Princeton, New Jersey — wrote #BlackLivesMatter exactly 100 times. The
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"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
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activism as an asset rather than a liability."
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. [/ G& [: O; oOn Saturday, Ahmed posted his answer and acceptance letter on Twitter with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. The tweet now has over 700 retweets and over
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police reform campaign, and some of its founders, Brittany Packnett and, [% s- s0 m# u' g) o% q' }% a* ]1 U
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