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Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
I agree. I can't get mad at G.W., when a lot of us don't take seriously or even USE the many opportunities (education, exercising our right to vote) that Dr. King and other civil rights leaders fought bitterly for.
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My mother, who is 76, cannot understand the anti-education mentality that's taken root in many parts of the AfAm community. It outrages her.
She grew up in South Carolina and attended segregated schools until she was 12 or so, when she moved up to New York City to live with my oldest uncle and his family.
That woman prizes education. She went to Howard University, but ran out of money and dropped out before meeting my Dad. But she got her bachelor's in 1977 through night school, when I was 13, to set an example for us.
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