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Column: Let's talk about whether Harvard should forgive Kyle Kashuv's youthful mistakes. Then let's talk about whether black kids are forgiven for theirs.

Not getting into Harvard is not the end of Kyle Kashuv's life.

Kashuv is the Parkland school shooting survivor who was admitted to Harvard University. His offer was revoked after leaked documents showed him using anti-Semitic and racist slurs, including the N-word, and saying all Jewish people should be killed, in texts, Skype conversations and Google documents when he was 16.

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