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By any standard, Zaila Avant-garde is a remarkable 14-year-old girl with a positive and compelling outlook on life.
Avant-garde (her father reportedly changed her surname from Heard in honor of jazz legend John Coltrane) recently won the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee, the first African American to win the highly competitive spelling contest. She told reporters afterward that she studied 13,000 words a day. A DAY!
Hard work, bravery and confidence. Are these not among the keys to success in life? If they have proven successful throughout human history, why don't we make them priorities in school and elsewhere instead of the "woke" agenda?
Former President Barack Obama tweeted: "Three Guinness World Records (related to her prowess at basketball dribbling) and now the national spelling bee champ! Congrats, Zaila – your hard work is paying off. We're all proud of you."
Avant-garde is the left's worst nightmare. She reached a difficult goal through commitment and tenacity. She studied words with a coach for two years and her prize of $50,000 is likely just the beginning. If she remains on track, she is bound to achieve other goals, which include attending Harvard, playing professional basketball, and working for NASA.
Interviewed on ABC's "Good Morning America," she said she hopes her historic win will inspire other young Black people in the United States to excel at spelling.
People who are tenacious, overcome obstacles and succeed used to be part of the American story, a story we were happy to share to encourage others. What happened to it?
Why do we focus less on success and more on envying and penalizing the successful?
Why is there the constant drumbeat in our politics and most of the media about the unsuccessful and the proposals by certain politicians to throw good money after bad on programs that have mostly not worked
The Washington Post quoted Avant-garde as saying: "I'm hoping that in a few years I'll see a whole lot more African American females, and males too, doing well in the Scripps Spelling Bee. You don't really see too many African Americans doing too well in spelling bees and that's a bit sad, because it's a really good thing ... and kind of is a gate-opener to be interested in education."
Avant-garde may be the key to unlock those gates, opening them much wider for many more to go through.
www.foxnews.com
I hope more black kids and every other kid will do what she did. That's the example to follow, and the pathway to follow it. Commitment and tenacity. You can do it. IMHO, we should be incentivizing success instead of denigrating it like the democrats do. We should not be treating minority kids or any kids as though they are victims that deserve special treatment, as the democrats want to do. Instead, we should be encouraging them to go for it, and keep trying until they succeed. That's the definition of a winner, not the equity obtained. We should not be telling them the system is rigged and they have no chance; first of all, that's bullshit. If Obama can do it, and this little girl can do it then so can anybody else. But you gotta work for it, and you gotta earn it. Don't wait for the gov't to do it for you, cuz they can't and won't. And shouldn't. If you wanna be a winner then go out and win something that you earned. No matter who you are, I wish you all the best.
Avant-garde (her father reportedly changed her surname from Heard in honor of jazz legend John Coltrane) recently won the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee, the first African American to win the highly competitive spelling contest. She told reporters afterward that she studied 13,000 words a day. A DAY!
Hard work, bravery and confidence. Are these not among the keys to success in life? If they have proven successful throughout human history, why don't we make them priorities in school and elsewhere instead of the "woke" agenda?
Former President Barack Obama tweeted: "Three Guinness World Records (related to her prowess at basketball dribbling) and now the national spelling bee champ! Congrats, Zaila – your hard work is paying off. We're all proud of you."
Avant-garde is the left's worst nightmare. She reached a difficult goal through commitment and tenacity. She studied words with a coach for two years and her prize of $50,000 is likely just the beginning. If she remains on track, she is bound to achieve other goals, which include attending Harvard, playing professional basketball, and working for NASA.
Interviewed on ABC's "Good Morning America," she said she hopes her historic win will inspire other young Black people in the United States to excel at spelling.
People who are tenacious, overcome obstacles and succeed used to be part of the American story, a story we were happy to share to encourage others. What happened to it?
Why do we focus less on success and more on envying and penalizing the successful?
Why is there the constant drumbeat in our politics and most of the media about the unsuccessful and the proposals by certain politicians to throw good money after bad on programs that have mostly not worked
The Washington Post quoted Avant-garde as saying: "I'm hoping that in a few years I'll see a whole lot more African American females, and males too, doing well in the Scripps Spelling Bee. You don't really see too many African Americans doing too well in spelling bees and that's a bit sad, because it's a really good thing ... and kind of is a gate-opener to be interested in education."
Avant-garde may be the key to unlock those gates, opening them much wider for many more to go through.
Cal Thomas: History-making spelling bee champion – here are the lessons we all can learn from this victory
Zaila Avant-garde recently won the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee, the first African American to win the contest. She told reporters that she studied 13,000 words a day. A DAY!
www.foxnews.com
I hope more black kids and every other kid will do what she did. That's the example to follow, and the pathway to follow it. Commitment and tenacity. You can do it. IMHO, we should be incentivizing success instead of denigrating it like the democrats do. We should not be treating minority kids or any kids as though they are victims that deserve special treatment, as the democrats want to do. Instead, we should be encouraging them to go for it, and keep trying until they succeed. That's the definition of a winner, not the equity obtained. We should not be telling them the system is rigged and they have no chance; first of all, that's bullshit. If Obama can do it, and this little girl can do it then so can anybody else. But you gotta work for it, and you gotta earn it. Don't wait for the gov't to do it for you, cuz they can't and won't. And shouldn't. If you wanna be a winner then go out and win something that you earned. No matter who you are, I wish you all the best.
