High Achieving Low Income students are all around us.
They remain silent/invisible because they don’t have a lobby.
Corn has a lobby, and their interests are served.
Oil has a great lobby. China has one. The Insur has one.
Internet radio has a f*cked up one, but you get my drift.
In reading this article about a homeless high achieving African
American student I wondered to myself whether some White
People get their kicks by talking shit about Black parents.
The student Nicholas Bounds is impressive. I mean. He is THAT
DUDE.
Nicholas Bounds is one of the top students in my Senior English class. He attends school every day, and often arrives to our first period class early. He works dutifully in class and faithfully completes his homework every night. He writes with honesty, intelligence and intensity. He scored a 23 in Math on the ACT. Nicholas is a shining star in the otherwise stormy night of black male education in the West Side of Chicago.
Nicholas Bounds also lives in a homeless shelter for teenagers. Every day, he leaves the shelter at 7 a.m. for school and arrives back at 11 p.m. after his part-time job at U.P.S. He was telling me the truth; he has been his own parent since he was 15 and in the eighth grade
Nicholas? mother was a drug-addict and his father was neither stable nor involved. Despite his family upbringing, Nicholas is proud that he has always succeeded in school.
?Since we started getting grades in elementary school, my report cards were A?s and B?s. I have natural intelligence but I always worked hard. I had to push myself,? Nicholas remembers. ?I?ve been lucky to have good teachers who believed in me and had a big impact on me. I also benefited from all the clubs I was in like the Boys and Girls Club, where I would go after school to play and receive help with my homework.?
Then I got to the comments section.
The majority of them were warm, receptive, encouraging.
Then there were the “BLACK PARENTS NEED TO ACT RIGHT” comments
that reminded me of that Bill Cosby koolaid. Feel me.
Trill talk.
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Here is an example of a person who has far better resilience than kids from money and family.
However, black parents should know how black girls and boys are going to wind up if they don?t step up to the plate in terms of parenting and mentoring. If you go to any black-plurality city, there?s crisis that is NOT in the hands of everyone else, but black parents and black sisters, brothers, families.
Nick is an example of someone who defied the odds. Most fail and never make it out of high school. What are black people going to do about this????
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But you know what. The majority of the comments were so f*cking positive
that I can’t even continue on with my the intended tone of my argument.
But then again……
Another comment came along and said it for me.
GOD. I love when people feel me.
Its all cool to want to start a scholarship fund for Nick, and I would gladly contribute, but I think you?re all missing HIS point. He is calling for change in the system so that others in his situation can get the help and support that was instrumental in his survival against all odds. So call upon your state and local representatives to provide funding for such support, or volunteer at a local support organization, or do SOMETHING! Just helping Nick is not enough.
? Posted by Gene Tee
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Dear Bill Cosby,
Your brilliant, warm and generous. And I know you mean well.
But.
Please write more about OUR success stories and
specific strategies on how to address the problems
that we face, rather than rant about how our pants hang low.
Otherwise you sound like a crankety old man.
– Model Minority
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What is one thing, you would tell Bill Cosby
during a sit down?
What is one thing, one measurable thing,
you would change about education?
About Hip Hop? About Black people?
DID I MENTION MEASURABLE.
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