And Pulls no punches whatsoever
And for that he and Michael Wilbon will probably get castigated and raked over the coals by the community at large. When instead they should be supported for speaking out.
Best quote:
"Watch the documentary and ask yourself why nine poor kids in the '50s risked their lives to get a good education and a thousand poor black kids today ignore the opportunity that is served to them on a platter. "
Again, I won't pretend to know exactly what it's like to grow up black in America today. But it seems to me that what people face today is almost worse in some ways than the institutionalized Jim Crow era problems. No it is different, what the Civil Rights movement sdealt with had to be fixed, it was a terrible injustice. But what is faced today seems just as bad in a way.
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