my name is Jonathan a hundred necks
senior
International Studies major from
one day my six-year-old son came home
from school upset he slammed his
backpack down and yelled out it’s not
fair I said young black man life’s not
fair he said dad dad but you don’t
understand
every time I go to school this white kid
challenges me to a race he began to
explain how the white child set the race
up how his starting position was fifty
paces from the swing set and how my son
starting position was 450 paces from the
swing set first one to the swing sets
would win on your mark get set go
my son would run as hard and fast as he
could but he could never make it to the
swing sets before that white child
this happened day after day and
eventually the white child look at my
son confused and he said what’s the
matter with you boy maybe you should try
harder maybe you should do more maybe
you should do better
what are you lazy my son respond mother
the frustration he said what but you had
a four hundred base head star the white
child smiled and said see that’s your
problem you always play in peace calm
maybe should stop making excuses you see
at the precipice of the perception on
how to improve the K through 12 pathways
to preeminence the prejudices of the
past has to be predominant and our
processes of reform because useless is
affirmative action and exajoules EF for
mission is an affirmed or mentioned
because easing our entrance into
collegiate education is to assume that
our youth will proportionately prepared
previously not so so son I’m gonna teach
you how to run black boy room we’re
preparing for a race that is magnitude
it is imperative that you learn
discipline ignore the statistics that
say that you are 25 percent less likely
graduate from high school seven times
more likely to live in the poorest
neighborhoods aren’t you two five years
behind errors weights on the fundament
areas like reading aa test run black boy
run the training will become arduous and
it will people to become obvious how
easy it is to be tempted by things you
don’t need please do not be tempted by
the sugary substances
but they will cause you to be dehydrated
endurance and Crampton mediocrity one
black boy run because while you’ll be
yelling to change oh he’ll be Ellen
Tootie Bristol’s will you be next in
line for the Jordans he’ll be next in
line for promotion run blackboard run
it’s fair hydrate yourself with the pain
of Reconstruction and fit for the
formidable Fountains of civil rights son
if you do this I promise you will be
successful
my son returned home from school a week
later angry as ever he said Dan I did
everything that you told me to do I work
I trained I did everything and I still
gonna come in first place
sir okay sir but did you finish he said
yeah but I had to work three times as
long but did you finish yeah but I fell
and I sprained my knee but did she
finish yeah but all my friends left me
and they stopped caring for me but
there’s finished yeah but I’m in pain
dad finish let me finish it regardless
of the disadvantage that was
systematically run that boy run not run
due to the fin
we diminish the efforts of the painter
onto the path we place during the
privileged position he’s running the
first place
you better run black boy run I demand
that I reparations and give it to us in
the form of education so that I choose
the spaces then say that you’re smarter
than our son Ben says you’re better than
our guards then success you’re more
resilient than our people until they
gave you up give me this it’s radically
reformed to the process of reparations
my children will continue to be at
afford to pay this defendants son I may
not get there with you but if I know my
dog and I do one day you will get them
wait until that glorious day when God
opens up the heaven today was occupant
in that thing that we have fought for
and we’re thankful that we have died for
for 400 years son young black me young
black men Morehouse men you better keep
them legs turning and ignore what the
world tells you should be you better
keep them arms pumping it ignore what
the world tells you that you can’t do
and you better run you better run you
you [Music]
senior
International Studies major from
one day my six-year-old son came home
from school upset he slammed his
backpack down and yelled out it’s not
fair I said young black man life’s not
fair he said dad dad but you don’t
understand
every time I go to school this white kid
challenges me to a race he began to
explain how the white child set the race
up how his starting position was fifty
paces from the swing set and how my son
starting position was 450 paces from the
swing set first one to the swing sets
would win on your mark get set go
my son would run as hard and fast as he
could but he could never make it to the
swing sets before that white child
this happened day after day and
eventually the white child look at my
son confused and he said what’s the
matter with you boy maybe you should try
harder maybe you should do more maybe
you should do better
what are you lazy my son respond mother
the frustration he said what but you had
a four hundred base head star the white
child smiled and said see that’s your
problem you always play in peace calm
maybe should stop making excuses you see
at the precipice of the perception on
how to improve the K through 12 pathways
to preeminence the prejudices of the
past has to be predominant and our
processes of reform because useless is
affirmative action and exajoules EF for
mission is an affirmed or mentioned
because easing our entrance into
collegiate education is to assume that
our youth will proportionately prepared
previously not so so son I’m gonna teach
you how to run black boy room we’re
preparing for a race that is magnitude
it is imperative that you learn
discipline ignore the statistics that
say that you are 25 percent less likely
graduate from high school seven times
more likely to live in the poorest
neighborhoods aren’t you two five years
behind errors weights on the fundament
areas like reading aa test run black boy
run the training will become arduous and
it will people to become obvious how
easy it is to be tempted by things you
don’t need please do not be tempted by
the sugary substances
but they will cause you to be dehydrated
endurance and Crampton mediocrity one
black boy run because while you’ll be
yelling to change oh he’ll be Ellen
Tootie Bristol’s will you be next in
line for the Jordans he’ll be next in
line for promotion run blackboard run
it’s fair hydrate yourself with the pain
of Reconstruction and fit for the
formidable Fountains of civil rights son
if you do this I promise you will be
successful
my son returned home from school a week
later angry as ever he said Dan I did
everything that you told me to do I work
I trained I did everything and I still
gonna come in first place
sir okay sir but did you finish he said
yeah but I had to work three times as
long but did you finish yeah but I fell
and I sprained my knee but did she
finish yeah but all my friends left me
and they stopped caring for me but
there’s finished yeah but I’m in pain
dad finish let me finish it regardless
of the disadvantage that was
systematically run that boy run not run
due to the fin
we diminish the efforts of the painter
onto the path we place during the
privileged position he’s running the
first place
you better run black boy run I demand
that I reparations and give it to us in
the form of education so that I choose
the spaces then say that you’re smarter
than our son Ben says you’re better than
our guards then success you’re more
resilient than our people until they
gave you up give me this it’s radically
reformed to the process of reparations
my children will continue to be at
afford to pay this defendants son I may
not get there with you but if I know my
dog and I do one day you will get them
wait until that glorious day when God
opens up the heaven today was occupant
in that thing that we have fought for
and we’re thankful that we have died for
for 400 years son young black me young
black men Morehouse men you better keep
them legs turning and ignore what the
world tells you should be you better
keep them arms pumping it ignore what
the world tells you that you can’t do
and you better run you better run you
you [Music]
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