If it's too perfect to be true...

Don't believe everything you read, especially if you really want to believe it.

When I first came across this story, still going viral on right-wing Twitter, a few days ago, I figured it was so over the top that it has to be some kind of hoax:

A Dallas-based Black Lives Matter group is asking wealthy White liberals to pledge their children will not attend an Ivy League school or another ranked in a commonly used list of the top 50 in the United States.

Dallas Justice Now, which has been devoted to defunding the Dallas Police Department, has now launched a college pledge they say will demonstrate support for the Black Lives Matter cause more than a yard sign or small donation.

The group says it will name all in the Highland Park Independent School District who sign — and do not sign — the pledge.

“Talk is not enough,” the group says in its “Open Letter to Wealthy White Liberals of HPISD.” The letter is available online and is being sent to the 95% White residents of Highland Park and University Park, according to Dallas Justice.

“As a white person with privilege both f…