Usually being accepted by a slew of Ivy league schools is a wonderful thing for a young student and a cause for a joyous celebration. That is unless you're black and the news hits the Internet.
Black Student Accepted To All 8 Ivy League Schools — Internet Goes Full Racist In Response (Screenshots, Video)
April 5, 2014

Via Americans Against The Tea Party:

Receiving an acceptance letter from an Ivy League university is quite an accomplishment. Receiving acceptance letters from all 8 is nothing short of amazing.

The son of immigrants from Ghana, Kwasi Enin, attends William Floyd High School in New York. In an interview with Newsday, Kwasi said that he never intended to get in to all 8 schools – Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Harvard, Brown, Penn, and Yale. He was simply hoping to gain acceptance to one or two.

When the story blew up across the internet, most people congratulated Kwasi, but it is the internet and it didn’t take long fo...

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