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My great-grandmother was a

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15-year-old-girl who worked on a share

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croppers farm because that was the work

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that was available.

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Her first child was born at 15 years old,

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and she sacrificed through life so that she

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could

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raise up a generation of people to

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become eventually successful. So when I

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look at her,

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and I look at my uncles who served in

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the military, one of them served in World

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War II.

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 He never made it over but when he

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eventually came home,

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he wasn't the same mentally, and his

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heart was that of a 65 year old,

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and my grandmother had to take care of

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him until he passed.

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And when my other uncle went over to

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serve,

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you know, during Vietnam, he came back

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and he had to be called boy and 

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the n-word. And so when I see the

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endurance

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of people like that, and my mother who

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was bussed

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to an all-white neighborhood in

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order to expand diversity,

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when I see the contributions that they

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Made ...

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when they exhale.....

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I inhaled their endurance.

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I inhaled their endurance, and so

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they crawled, they walked,

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so I can run, and my children are going to

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soar.