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Originally posted by Steeltrap
Man, I never heard about that. But it would be cool if Janet Jackson, Will Smith, Oprah, Bill Cosby, Shaq, Ken Chenault, Stanley O'Neal, etc., or people of that stature, could start something like that. Ah, we can always dream.
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Good point Soror Steeltrap. Even more, I'd like to see a group of wealthy, non-sports or entertainment-related AA start something of this stature. I am tired of our children thinking that to achieve you must be in sports or entertainment. Part of the problem is that they are not seeing the true black middle-class really come back. They are not seeing the engineers, lawyers, doctors in our community. They need to know that it is possible to succeed in life and make $$ w/out being a BB player or Janet J.
Further, if one more football player opens a football camp, I am going to scream. Athletes, our children need BOOKS and INSTRUCTION in academic subjects - not instruction on how to throw a football. What are these athletes thinking? They need to raise their thinking to a new level of consciousness in my opinion.
SC