Bob CollinsSupreme Court cases don’t usually lead to very compelling hashtags on Twitter, but today’s U.S. Supreme Court win for affirmative action has sparked a social media victory lap.
And that’s bad news on a couple of fronts for Abigail Noel Fisher, who didn’t get into the University of Texas in 2008 and challenged the school’s affirmative action policy in front of the high court.
She lost the case, of course. And now she’s front and center with the Twitter hastag #BeckyWithTheBadGrades, a riff on a Beyonce lyric.
The “bad grades” stems from a ProPublica analysis in 2013 that shows Fisher “had not actually been denied admission because she is white, but rather because of her inadequate academic achievements.”
When you tried to insult and degrade us blacks but we prevailed #beckywiththebadgrades pic.twitter.com/F77N33VZuI
— Coco! (@cmb6414) June 23, 2016
#beckywiththebadgrades Life must be really hard for you when we're your professors! #StayMadAbby #ErasingTheDeficits pic.twitter.com/BjIDIPmmVL
— Chezare A. Warren (@DrChezareWarren) June 23, 2016
42 White people w/ equal/lower grades than #BeckyWithTheBadGrades got admitted but some of y'all still got questions pic.twitter.com/Jqt7o2P7Dq
— Lavinia SheBeShonuff (@SheBeShonuff) June 23, 2016
How Abigail's parents felt about her schoolwork #beckywiththebadgrades pic.twitter.com/K7unBDkDfk
— Tony the Home Cook (@Celertony) June 23, 2016
You was looking for lawyers when you should've been looking for tutors #BeckyWithTheBadGrades pic.twitter.com/sG4kmgh3ep
— Julia. (@sohosultry) June 23, 2016
moment when highest court in the land tells you in its official papers that you're mediocre #beckywiththebadgrades pic.twitter.com/WXJKB1SDUD
— Adeea Rogers (@TrendySocialite) June 23, 2016
#BeckyWithTheBadGrades thought she was getting in… ? #StayMadAbby @ReignOfApril @TheAtlantic pic.twitter.com/W9Bbtgll3O
— Brilliance (@GreatBrilliance) June 23, 2016
