Book Title: What We Blacks Need To Do: The First Book in a Three Book Series
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I told my School Superintendent, "I wear four hats Teacher, Parent, NAACP Branch President and tax payer. The only two people I fear are my mother and God. All others are my equal and subject to questioning. I have and will always speak out when I see discrimination".
I told a preacher. " I believe God will fight our battles, but we have a responsibility to prepair for battle also." My question to the man of the cloth was? "If two people apply for a job that requires a degree and one has a degree and the other does not, but they both have Jesus. Which one will be hired?
If the only people in your community that benefit from your "big church" are the workers that built it and the stockholders in the local power company, your church is going in the wrong direction.
I never allowed my students to use the word can't in my class. I told them everything I assigned them to do was possible and they would do it. Whenever a student slipped and said can't the other students would point to the sign over the blackboard which read. "YES I CAN"
A large number of parents can name seven or more players on the L.A. Lakers and many characters on "As the World Turns". If you ask these same parents to name just five of their childrens teachers, you may not receive an answer.
There are many streets and schools named after the late great Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall. If he keeps voting as he is now, I doubt if any humane organization will ever name anything after Associates Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas or as his nieces and nephews call him "Uncle Tom". I read his favorite Bible quotation is Psalms 51:7 "Wash me and make me whiter than snow".
During a one hour period, spend five minutes discussing the problems and fifty five minutes working on the solutions. When soneone spends more than five minutes complaining about a problem, I hold up one hand, spread my fingers and say. "Your five minutes are up."
We tell our teenage girls to say "no to sex". Don't we also have an obiligation to tell our teenage boys to "stop asking ?
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