This is an excerpt from an essay I wrote titled "I Don't See Anyone Who Looks Like Me"
-I needed a school that was going to push me academically. I needed an environment where, even though I was one of 3 black students in my class, ethnicity and skin color didn’t matter.
No one in the USAFA catalog looked like me but that did not prevent me from applying. Why should it?
There’s nothing wrong with not seeing anyone who looks like you in a school, or a restaurant. A certain honor goes with being the first. When I think of those who came before me, someone was always one of a few, the first, or the only. Why should I be exempt from that honor?-
To the black folks who wouldn't live to San Diego because there's not enough black folks there; you understand if every black person looks at San Diego like that, there will never be any black folks there. People in general miss out on so much in life with that sort of narrow thinking.
There is a compelling logic to what you write. More importantly, people are going to do what people are going to do. I have enjoyed my 32 years of living by the Pacific Ocean with mountains and the desert in my backyard. That's good enough for me.
This is an excerpt from an essay I wrote titled "I Don't See Anyone Who Looks Like Me"
-I needed a school that was going to push me academically. I needed an environment where, even though I was one of 3 black students in my class, ethnicity and skin color didn’t matter.
No one in the USAFA catalog looked like me but that did not prevent me from applying. Why should it?
There’s nothing wrong with not seeing anyone who looks like you in a school, or a restaurant. A certain honor goes with being the first. When I think of those who came before me, someone was always one of a few, the first, or the only. Why should I be exempt from that honor?-
To the black folks who wouldn't live to San Diego because there's not enough black folks there; you understand if every black person looks at San Diego like that, there will never be any black folks there. People in general miss out on so much in life with that sort of narrow thinking.
There is a compelling logic to what you write. More importantly, people are going to do what people are going to do. I have enjoyed my 32 years of living by the Pacific Ocean with mountains and the desert in my backyard. That's good enough for me.
History repeats. I'm thinking of the great theologian Rodney King with "Can't we all just get along?"
Sums it all up in six words.