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Kyle Kashuv @KyleKashuv . 4h 5/I responded to the letter with a full explanation, apology, and requested documents. embarrassed. My parents raised me to be better than what is represented in those screenshots from about two years ago. In an effort to be as honest and transparent as possible, I immediately apologized publicly when reminded of those messages, while knowing the media uproar that would ensue. It did ensue, and I have continued to accept responsibility and the resulting legitimate criticism. Let me first state that I apologize unequivocally for my comments, which were made two years ago in private among equally immature high school students. In the attached document, I have attached all the comments I have been able to record. I do not have access to the electronic record of that conversation and do not recall other things that may have been said; I have only seen what has appeared in the media. I take full responsibility for the idiotic and hurtful things I wrote two years ago. I make absolutely no excuse for those comments. I said them, I regret them, and by explaining the context and my subsequent experiences I am not trying to excuse them. Instead I am seeking to demonstrate the hurtful things I said do not represent the man I am today. As you know, I intend to take a gap year before beginning my studies to continue my work promoting school safety. I will continue to mature and will enter Harvard with throe years and many life experiences between the foolish child who said those things and the man I am today. As an aspiring member of the Harvard community, I aspire to the values that the community strives to uphold. Therefore I have already written to the Harvard College Office of Diversity Education and Support both to express my deepest apologies and remorse, and to reach out to begin a dialogue that I hope wil be the foundation of future growth. While I am no longer the same person who wrote those camments, there is always more to learn: especially about the legacy of racism in our society I understand Harvard's concern over these offensive statcments from my past, and I further understand that Harvard hns been contacted about them by people expressing concern about them. I am very sorry to have put the College in this position. I am determined to take whatever steps are necessary to rectify this past wrong and to reassure Harvard of my commitment to values of tolerance, diversity, and inclusion, which I hope to advance as a member of the class of 2024. This is the context in which I made these comments. While this Thank you again for this opportunity to address these issues. I hope this fully addresses your concerns, but if not I would he happy to provide any further information or discussion you require does not excuse my comments, I made poor choices with regards to the pcople I surrounded mysclf with, I became part of a group in which those words bore little weight and were used only in a means for their shock value. I bore no racial animus; th ntet wac a unen nf adsle erente trvinu tn nos the wrst t 288 67 1.9K Kyle Kashuv @KyleKashuv 4h 6/I also sent an email to the Office of Diversity and Inclusion to seek guidance on how to right this wrong and work with them once I was on campus. take a gap year to continue my school safety me May 27 activism, before beginning my studies in the fall of 2020. I will hope to enter Harvard as a more to diversity To Harvard College Office of Diversity Education mature member of the community, with three and Support years and many life experiences between the foolish child who said those things two years Around two years ago, when I was 16 years old, before the mass shooting that occurred at ago and the man l am today and wish to become in the future my high school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, I was part of a group in which we used abhorrent I am deeply sorry for my past comments, I know I am not the same person. But I realize there is racial slurs. We did so out of a misplaced sense of humor: we treated the words themselves as always more I can do to understand and learn though they bore little weight, and used them only for their shock value. Looking back two years later, I cannot recognize that person.I about the struggle and pain of minority communities in America and worldwide. During my gap year, I will supplement my activism to make absolutely no excuse for those comments. include reaching out to minority communities. I I said them, and I regret them deeply. I bore no am open to any advice or suggestions on

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Ben Shapiro @benshapiro Regardless of what you think of @KyleKashuv -- and for the record, I think he, like many other Parkland survivors, has handled the public limelight with grace and strength -- Harvard's auto-da-fe sets up an insane, cruel standard no one can possibly meet. Harvard Rescinds Admission To Conservative Kyle Kashuv Over Private Raci... Our universities may be irrevocably broken dailywire.com 9:48 AM 17 Jun 2019
Kyle Kashuv @KyleKashuv 4h 10/ Harvard deciding that someone can't grow, especially after a life-altering event like the shooting, is deeply concerning. If any institution should understand growth, it's Harvard, which is looked to as the pinnacle of higher education despite its checkered past t 464 132 3.3K Kyle Kashuv @KyleKashuv 4h 11/Throughout its history, Harvard's faculty has included slave owners, segregationists, bigots and antisemites. If Harvard is suggesting that growth isn't possible and that our past defines our future, then Harvard is an inherently racist institution But I don't believe that. t 677 154 4.2K Kyle Kashuv @KyleKashuv 4h 12/l believe that institutions and people can grow. I've said that repeatedly In the end, this isn't about me, it's about whether we live in a society in which forgiveness is possible or mistakes brand you as irredeemable, as Harvard has decided for me t 461 184 3.4K Kyle Kashuv @KyleKashuv 4h 13/So what now? I'm figuring it out I had given up huge scholarships in order to go to Harvard, and the deadline for accepting other college offers has ended. I'm exploring all options at the moment.
Black Parkland Students Call Out David Hogg for Ignoring Them While Claiming to Highlight Black Voices auretta Brown Posted Apr 05,2018 1245 PM A Share (212Tweet Black students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School held a press conference last week asking for their voices to be included in the "March for Our Lives" movement. In an interview with HuffPost, they also called out prominent fellow student David Hogg for saying he would use his "white privilege" to be a voice for black communities yet failing to invite them to meetings or reach out to them in any way. "We're saying you don't see much of us at the forefront," 17-year-old junior Mei-Ling Ho-Shing, who is black, told HuffPost. NOM NOM NOM NOM
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