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Varsity Blues. That’s the name of a sweeping federal probe into what
the Justice Department calls the biggest college admissions scam the
agency has ever uncovered. On Tuesday, 50 people, including 13 college
coaches, were arrested for taking part in a scheme where wealthy parents
paid exorbitant bribes to secure spots for their unqualified children
in elite schools, including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown,</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; color: rgb(25, 31, 36);"> </span><span class="caps" style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; color: rgb(25, 31, 36);">UCLA</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; color: rgb(25, 31, 36);">,</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; color: rgb(25, 31, 36);"> </span><span class="caps" style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; color: rgb(25, 31, 36);">USC</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; color: rgb(25, 31, 36);"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; color: rgb(25, 31, 36);">and
Wake Forest. Prosecutors have charged 33 parents, including Hollywood
stars Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin; Loughlin’s husband, the
fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli; and Bill McGlashan, a founder of</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; color: rgb(25, 31, 36);"> </span><span class="caps" style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; color: rgb(25, 31, 36);">TPG</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; color: rgb(25, 31, 36);"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; color: rgb(25, 31, 36);">Capital,
one of the largest private equity investment firms in the world. We
speak with Ivory Toldson, professor of counseling psychology at Howard
University and president of Quality Education for Minorities. His new
book is titled “No BS (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe
in Black People Enough Not to Believe Every Bad Thing They Hear About
Black People.”</span></font></div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; color: rgb(25, 31, 36);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">....</font></span></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px; color: rgb(25, 31, 36);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">GOODMAN</span>:</strong> So, that’s the <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">FBI</span> special
agent talking about this scandal. No actual schools were charged,
though people within the schools, like, you know, the head of soccer at
Yale, for example. You had these pictures sent in of athletes with their
heads photoshopped to be a student who didn’t even play the particular
game, in cases like water polo. What message does this scandal send to
black and brown children, to white not wealthy children, who believe
that higher education is a meritocracy? What do you say to them?</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">IVORY</span> <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">TOLDSON</span>:</strong> Yeah,
yeah. Well, I hope it’s a wake-up call for people who have bought into
the system that people become wealthy because they have worked hard.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> It’s a <b>deception
that’s pervasive in our society. Among the wealthy, their objective is
passive income. You know, they talk actively about making money without
working.</b>That’s what they talk about in their own social networks.
But yet, when they’re talking to people who may work for them, they try
to make it seem like it’s all about working hard. In reality, it should
be about working hard. Everybody should work hard for what they have.
But there are people in this country, unfortunately, who would<b> rather manipulate the system so that some people work hard to get enough, and other people work not at all and get more.</b></span></p><p style="margin: 30px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And I think it also does a <b>disservice
to their children, because their children will grow up feeling a false
sense of entitlement, believing in unearned privilege, believing in
inherited wealth and all of the things that will lead to certain types
of predatory behaviors, whether it be predatory lending, </b>manipulating
markets, predatory landlords—you know, different aspects of society
that we’ve all grown to loathe. All of this is cultivated in these types
of environments.</span></p></span></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div></div>