The college cheating scam proved what I have always said…

White people can’t beat us unless they cheat.

Black people run circles around white people. We’ve always had to work twice as hard to get half as much. It starts when we’re enter schools with white students and ends when we die. We deal with it our entire lives — losing out on academic recognition, promotions, raises…the list goes on.

This cheating scam proves there is so much more to it than black students simply not making the cut. White people are cheating even before we get to college. They’ve bribed and bullied a way for their students to get into college, and their children with subpar GPAs and week SATs are taking the spots of students who actually have done the work to get into that university.

So I don’t want another white person to ever ask how a black or brown student got into college. You don’t get to ask how we got there. Ask your friends how their dumb-as-a-rock son got into Yale. While you’re at it, ask yourself how your friends and family are getting their children into these upscale, highly competitive schools before they even turn 2 years old. I guarantee you, in many cases, money is changing hands.

And just to keep the momentum going, ask yourself why the public school in your neighborhood can buy new books, has working water, a solid roof and an abundance of teachers while the school in the neighborhood across town — in the same school district — has holes in the roof, 10-year-old torn textbooks, overcrowded classrooms and broken sinks and toilets.

This scam actually may give us the opportunity to have the discussion about how white people cheat their way into schools, jobs, housing, raises, promotions… the list goes on and on. I know I’m not crazy for believing all these years that the white people who have gotten these prizes over me were not always better. Some were. In most cases, they were simply white and less of a threat than a black woman. An opinionated black woman at that.

Where do we go from here? White parents have been buying their children spots in universities forever. How do we change things? Perhaps those rejected students, like these two, need to start filing lawsuits.

Olsen, from Henderson, Nevada, said she had “stellar” standardized test scores and athletic talent, but was rejected by Yale after paying her roughly $85 application fee.

Woods, from San Diego, said in the complaint that she was an exceptional student and athlete, but when applying to enter the University of Southern California “was never informed that the process of admission at USC was an unfair, rigged process, in which parents could buy their way into the university through bribery and dishonest schemes.”

Before you cry foul, remember these parents who had the means to participate in this scam didn’t have particularly bright kids — thus the shelling out of millions of dollars. Their children should have gone to community college and transferred to a university like many other students who don’t have the grades do to raise their GPAs. Given most of these parents were well-off, the idea that they still cheated speaks volumes. It tells me they probably cheat in every other aspect of their lives too.

I hope their industries are looking long and hard at them, but I’m not holding my breath.

In a wealthy country like ours, people turn a blind eye to the unfair advantage given to white people while jailing black and brown parents for lying just so their children can attend a good public school.

Tell me again nothing is wrong with the system. This is America.