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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.
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So for his answer, Ahmed — who is a senior at Princeton Day School in$ }& s0 S' v9 K" {9 R2 ]# T
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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On Saturday, Ahmed posted his answer and acceptance letter on Twitter with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. The tweet now has over 700 retweets and over P" @, Q( R o U t: R; e+ c8 ^
2,000 likes. It has also been retweeted by members of Campaign Zero, a+ m: u6 _' `3 ?0 s4 Y* R+ F4 {( }& J! @
police reform campaign, and some of its founders, Brittany Packnett and
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