Carlos: My motherm heissin prison. Did you know your father? I still have my father, and i we he was, he was absent for a large part of my life. Neither eric nor elina know whether they'll ever see them again. That's the difference between being privileged and being poor in america. It's how many chances you get. If you're wealthy, all kinds of things can happen, and you'll be ok. Disruption is not fatal to life chances. A friend of mine was once stopped by cops speeding on the east river drive in manhattan, drunk with a sringe on the dashboard. And what happened? Nothing happened.
Of the tens of thousands of talented, low-income students who graduate from high school every year in the United States, most never make it to universities appropriate to their gifts. America leaves an enormous amount of talent on the table every year. “Carlos Doesn’t Remember” explains why.
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