Its been my experience that many liberals are really racist, and always surprised when a non politically connected or celebrity black person succeeds

An author I like a lot, Jerry Pournelle, is now in his 80s. A few years ago, he wrote (I am paraphrasing):

"When I was young and said that society ought to be color blind, people thought a hopeless liberal. Today, when I say society ought to be color blind, people call me a hopeless conservative."

But, really, that has got to be the goal.

Not only is there no need for that headline "Black Excellence" there is also no need for the story.

Some wealthy kids get into the Ivy league - yawn!

Many wealthy black kids will get into elite colleges.

3.7 in this era of grade inflation isn't really that impressive.
Wanna bet their SAT scores never see the light of day?

Deliberately avoiding the point, but getting into a school is not an achievement. Graduating from one is. I'll just note that I know people of all races who defy every ethnic stereotype you could name. A stereotype is just a guess based on no information at all.

This really is a non-story. So triplets all got good enough grades to get into any ivy league college they want to go to.

Now if were the Dilley sextuplets it might have been a story but even then… But they all graduated with honors.

I don't know I might let them slide if the keep publishing stuff like this. http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2014/03/dear-fellas-dont-get-props-basics/

Quite frankly I'm ok with pointing out color in stories like this because this makes them net searchable. When some young kid does a net search for black and excellent I want shit like this to pop up. Not 50 cent and getting shot 9 times.

One of my favorite speakers, Bill Whittle, makes the point, obvious to us but not the Left, that Affirmative Action is horribly racist. How can the proponents of it say with a straight face, Blacks must be given a "handicap" on SATs to measure up to Whites. Why? I think Blacks, and every other race are as capable as the next and to offer a handicap is telling them and everyone else they're not.
There are success and failure stories on both sides of privilege for all races. This is just one more way Liberals attempt to slander Conservatives..."Amazing. Society tried to hold them back but they beat the odds and made it anyway!!!!"

Whatever.

Racism is the belief that people of different races have different qualities and abilities, and that some races are inherently superior or inferior.

White liberals/leftists/progressives believe that black people are inferior - unable to adequately provide for themselves, get educations and job skills, and live as equals in a free, civilized society without the help of wise, kind-hearted, superior white people like themselves. They see black people as "the white man's burden". White liberals and progressives are racists to the core.

My problem with articles like this is they inadvertently send the opposite of the intended message: What the author is effectively saying is that black excellence is so rare that it should 'make the news' when black students excel. I could be wrong but I suspect the message that sends to most young black students may reinforce 'stereotype threat' or the 'golem effect' rather than promote success.

I agree that we need to put more good role models up there, but surely there are more subtle ways of doing it, like leaving "OMG BLACK EXCELLENCE, quick, write an article about it!!1!" out of the headline..