If illiteracy and innumeracy were not insuperable barriers to our enslaved ancestors, who fought for and who achieved freedom, for themselves and for this nation; who raised families and bought farmland during the nadir of Jim Crow segregation; and who built churches, schools, lodges, businesses of all kinds, with only very limited access to these vital, after-acquired rudiments of letters and numbers amid their "unequal education,"( without affirmative action, nor equal opportunity,) why should today's unlimited access to literacy and to numeracy nodes in public schools, in public libraries and that are widely available online, yet prove to be be a stumbling block to many among us who repeatedly fail?
They should not be! They must not be!? Our people have historically done more with less. "Give a Negro an inch, and he will take a mile," the aphorism goes, and we've demonstrated its truth repeatedly in diverse fields. Some folks get rich off our subjugation and benefit from our inertia. Many of them look like us! They make excuses to thwart that sacred, indomitable spirit inherent in the aboriginal human personality, that derives directly from God! Garvey said it best, "Up you mighty race you can accomplish what you will!"
No excuses! Zero. Zip. None!
If illiteracy and innumeracy were not insuperable barriers to our enslaved ancestors, who fought for and who achieved freedom, for themselves and for this nation; who raised families and bought farmland during the nadir of Jim Crow segregation; and who built churches, schools, lodges, businesses of all kinds, with only very limited access to these vital, after-acquired rudiments of letters and numbers amid their "unequal education,"( without affirmative action, nor equal opportunity,) why should today's unlimited access to literacy and to numeracy nodes in public schools, in public libraries and that are widely available online, yet prove to be be a stumbling block to many among us who repeatedly fail?
They should not be! They must not be!? Our people have historically done more with less. "Give a Negro an inch, and he will take a mile," the aphorism goes, and we've demonstrated its truth repeatedly in diverse fields. Some folks get rich off our subjugation and benefit from our inertia. Many of them look like us! They make excuses to thwart that sacred, indomitable spirit inherent in the aboriginal human personality, that derives directly from God! Garvey said it best, "Up you mighty race you can accomplish what you will!"
No excuses! Zero. Zip. None!