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If your average GPA is high but you always fail one class (e.g. F in math, A in everything else) does that raise a red flag in college admissions?I don’t think this scenario presented in the question is a red flag.I think this situation calls for the hosting of the Jolly Roger flag!(Good Ol’ Jolly Roger!)If there is a one-time F in a subject, and the class was made up with a reasonable passing grade, a college will overlook it if the rest of the application is solid, as there are many reasons a student could have failed that course (e.g.: an incompetent or biased teacher), or is a simple outlier in their academic career.However, consistently failing one subject is a massive problem that goes beyond the scope of just college applications. (e.g.: There may be a learning disability.)Barring exceptions for the disabled, all 50 states have minimum requirements to graduate from high school. Most of those states require passing certain core subjects.If someone is constantly failing a core subject like Mathematics but gets an A in everything else, that student will struggle to graduate from high school.Struggling to graduate from high school by failing the same subject multiple times is a disturbing look for any college application.Edited on Oct. 20, 2019, for better phrasing.Edited again on Mar. 05, 2020, to add phrasing for learning disabilities and exceptions.

If the question is reframed as "What are the most interesting questions where the answer is 'mu'?, then the question become more powerful and meaningful.The Japanese Word, Mu--by Robert Pirsig (Oct 20, 2008)Listen To Reading!Yes and no…this or that…one or zero. In the basis of this elementary two-term discrimination, all human knowledge is built up. The demonstration of this is the computer memory that stores all knowledge in the form of binary information. It contains ones and zeroes, that's all.Because we're unaccustomed to it, we don't usually see that there's a third possible logical term equal to yes and no which is capable of our understanding in an unrecognized direction. We don't even have term for it, so I'll have to use the Japanese mu.Mu means "no thing." Like "quality" it points outside the process of dualistic discrimination. Mu simply says, "no class: not one, not zero, not yes, not no." It states that the context of the question is such that a yes and a no answer is in error and should not be given. "Unask the question" is what it says.Mu becomes appropriate when the context of the question becomes too small for the truth of the answer. When the Zen monk was asked whether a dog had Buddha nature he said "Mu," meaning that if he answered ether way he was answering incorrectly. The Buddha nature cannot be captured by yes or no questions.That Mu exists in the natural world investigated by science is evident. […] The dualistic mind tends to think of Mu occurrences in nature as a kind of contextual cheating, or irrelevance, but Mu is found through all scientific investigation, and nature doesn't cheat, and nature's answers are never irrelevant. It's a great mistake, a kind of dishonesty to sweep nature's Mu answers under the carpet. […]When your answer to a test is indeterminate it means one of two things: that your test procedures aren't doing what you think they are or that your understanding of the context of the question needs to be enlarged. Check your tests and restudy the question. Don't throw away those Mu answers! They're every bit as vital as the yes and no answers. They're more vital. They're the ones you grow on.--Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance- See more at: The Japanese Word, Mu

You should believe—in the sense of rely on—the best evidence you can find.That means you are wary of ideologists who have a vested interest in rewriting history to support their ideology, whatever the race or ethnicity of those ideologists might be.Some of the painful facts of history:The Muslim-African slave trade started long before, and lasted long after, the European-African slave trade. Saudi Arabia only outlawed slavery in the 1960s for example, but continued to practice it under the table. And Muslim Mauritania still has slavery problems. (See Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia and Slavery in Mauritania - Wikipedia.)The Muslim slave trade did not just take people from Africa. It also took lots of people—probably millions—from Europe. While the Europe-Africa horrific slave trade endured for about 400 shameful years, the Islamic slave trade committed against Africans and Europeans began in the 7th century CE, and persisted for over 1,000 years, even remaining not fully eradicated today. (See The Islamic Trade in European Slaves.)Africans themselves do share some of the blame for slavery, since Africans often sold other Africans into slavery. (See CNN - Evidence of Africans' part in slavery - Oct. 20, 1995.) (P.S. That does not mean that anyone was responsible for their own enslavement.)Note also that slavery has occurred across the world. Native Americans took slaves. Israelites had slaves. Ancient China had slaves. (See Indian Slavery - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History and Aztec slavery - Wikipedia and Slavery in China - Wikipedia and The Bible and slavery - Wikipedia.) (The ability and willingness to enslave others is so sadly and evidently a human trait not particular to any one people or group.)Note that unlike the Aztecs, the Inca empire appeared not to have had slavery, but did have a requirement of everyone in the empire to provide labor. (See Incan Slavery.)The desire of some to hammer slavery into a Black-White issue is ill-informed. Africa is a very diverse continent. Skin color did not and does not define or entail loyalty across tribes and religions and people. The same is true of Europe. “White” is a fairly recent linguistic device, or even trick, to replace Caucasian or Caucasoid to imply some homogeneous group that only exists as a human construct—just as Black does. White has at times excluded various Europeans—Mediterranean peoples, Eastern European Slavic peoples, and even the Irish have at times been considered “not White.” Even the Muslim slave trade, taking Africans and Europeans alike, was not a crime committed by one ethnic group, although the various practitioners appear to have been of a common religion.So who do you believe? Set up as your greatest standard to only be dedicated to the truth, whatever it may be. Shun the rhetoric of ideologues and seek facts from all angles. Well-researched truth leads where it leads and should not suffer the distortions of “narratives” of persons with ideological motivations to create classes of victims and oppressors to serve their philosophy. History is more complex and nuanced than such “narratives.”Addendum, March 31, 2019. Steven Bird has shared a link in his comment below. The link is very relevant to this topic. It is: An introduction to the Indian Ocean slave trade and see some links others have provided.