How My Family Chose Excellence Over Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Experiment
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How My Family Chose Excellence Over Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Experiment

Achievement is the real equity.

Alexander Norton III

My parents chose the best for me.

They chose to send me, a black boy, to a competitive, majority-white and Asian private school. I was challenged with rigorous homework, test routines, and expansive extracurriculars in athletics and the arts. Through my parents’ striving, I got the chance to learn, grow, and succeed – it’s unfathomable that someone would not want this for their child.

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