The following anecdote attributed (perhaps apocryphally) to Abe Lincoln takes the form of a riddle:
q. How many legs does a horse have, if you call a tail a leg?
When someone replies “five” he is corrected with:
“No, it is still four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
And calling a black student Cal/Berkeley material does not make him so.
I don’t know Kashawn, and maybe with a lot of hard work and training he could attend an accredited college and make something of himself. I hope that happens. But the fact is many of the kids are being cheated by the same people who think they’re helping them. Success in life is based on conservatism. There might be a few leeches who get by on the efforts of others, but in the long run things of quality are made by people who work hard and don’t make excuses. It’s not necessarily succeeding every time but not giving up after one fails.
calling any student who is not Cal Berkeley material Cal Berkeley material, does not make him so...