So first semester senior year I had all of these APs. I had AP physics, chemistry. I had AP French. I had AP history. I had a lot of them. I got all As first semester. So, I know that’s the last time I looked at my grades that semester. So I knew there was no way this woman could catch me because she wasn’t in any of my classes. That’s sort of the key. She may have gotten all As second semester or even first semester. I don’t know.
You might be able to see in the corner in the photo the yellow. That’s one of the men wearing that jacket. That’s a photo of me that was in the paper. That was an important homecoming for me because I was embraced by my community. That was coming home, doing this for my grandparents, but it was the kind of thing though, Michele, that I had to think about because it’s also a kind of Springfield thing. Senator Durbin was there at the front center table with my parents.
Maybe it should just be the people with the highest grade point average. To which I say, yeah, but I was this. I was this. I was this. So maybe try, well, maybe it’s important to just give everybody a trophy now. Well, okay, if that’s true then why have top student? Why do I tell that part of the story? Because social psychologists tell us that they explore a dynamic called attribution ambiguity.
That, to me, is deeply disconcerting because we are on a multiple generations path and journey in this country with dispelling these stereotypes. I’ll be honest with you, Tracey, one of the things that I started doing when my daughter was very young, because of what I saw in my prior work in education and because I saw what happened to her. It was actually before the 8grade that I began actually making a book every year that I would share with her teachers in the school.
I want to begin our wrap up, but I could spend hours talking with you about this. I do think that hours long need to be spent on this because for some children whose parents want to be there but can’t, who experience…I mean it’s just really heartbreaking. I imagine that you might have also been one to share with your mom like, hey, I also saw this other thing happening.
Trayvon Martin is a story of do you belong. Sandra Bland is a story of do you belong? Why are you here? Why are you on this road? Why are you on this street? When we think about the burning down of prominent black communities from Oklahoma to Florida and places in between. It’s about do you belong. I think about, very recently, the stories being lifted up in California about Bruce’s Beach, which is now considered Manhattan Beach.
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