Ibram X. Kendi posted and then deleted a tweet promoting an article which stated that white college applicants pretend to be non-white in order to gain acceptance - which his critics claim contradicts his own theories about white supremacy and ‘privilege.’
The controversial anti-racism author and Boston University professor tweeted a link to an article from The Hill.
‘More than a third of White students lied about their race on college applications, and about half of these applicants lied about being Native American,’ Kendi tweeted.
‘More than three-fourths of these students who lied about their race were accepted.’
The Hill story cited a survey by Intelligent which found that 34 percent of white students falsely claimed they were a racial minority.
Most of those students - 81 percent - said they lied in order to improve their chances of getting accepted while half of them said they did so in order to qualify for minority-focused financial aid.
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