Yes, That High School Contest Was Rigged. But You’re Missing the Real Story.
The alleged rigging of a high school contest against a Sikh finalist isn’t just about cheatingโit’s a case study in how institutional discrimination operates through mundane bureaucratic decisions. When a single phone call can undo a student’s achievement, it reveals the quiet machinery of exclusion that defines who belongs in American public life. This isn’t an anomaly; it’s the system working as designed.