yes. YOU. can.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
I know I've been lax on posting lately, but, ironically, that's a post for a different time.
I've been doing a lot of teaching. Not teaching the privileged white suburbanites, but teaching the underprivileged inner-city kids. In North Philadelphia and Camden (which I affectionately refer to as "East Philadelphia.")
Lets be blunt: I teach black kids.
So tonight, for the first time in my life or theirs, I can look them in the eye and tell them that they can be anything they want to be when they grow up.
They can be a teacher or a musician; a firefighter or a florist; a cop or a stockbroker.
Or hell, kids, you can be president. Yes we can!? No:
Yes YOU can.
You can be anything you want to be. And I can look you in the face as a white girl and mean it. With evidence to back it up.
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