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Education & Innovation	Ask you some questions about your middle school experience.
Education & Innovation	I felt good because my preparation from elementary school in terms of what their mindset was, that it was preparing us for the future in terms of being, you know, smart individuals.
Community & Health	It was mixed. I was integration first class.
Community & Health	It was quite an experience, really, in terms of the mindset that we had at that time, in terms of the thought about what white folks had about us and what we could do and what we could be, that type of thing.
Family & History	And then a couple other fellow, James Spann, you know, I can see my brother, who's right behind me, you know, that's kind of was a little game, but, and then we was involved in sports, all of us.
Education & Innovation	And outside of that, we used to, we were involved in a program called upper bound, and then that, you know, helped us with preparing to go to, you know, higher level.
Community & Health	I'm so happy to be a proud of in terms of how we can make a difference in, you know, our communities, and with young folks in terms of they need, in terms of, like, we're just saying, You need to be a tentative of them.
Faith & Spirituality	Guess where Grandma told me so yeah it was my prayer just speaking with you and you have a great day and God bless you and continue to keep up with good work that you're doing this outstanding.
Education & Innovation	I actually went to Newberry, Junior Senior High School.
Community & Health	So, you know, but it was an adjustment, and, you know, in terms of dealing with each other and the difference that we had in our opinions at that time.
Education & Innovation	You know we was, you know, just as good, equal, if not better than anybody else you know.
Community & Health	And you know, TV, watching games, growing up, like you're saying in the NFL, you know, and then terms of what we had to do back then
Education & Innovation	It gave you a chance to create different things, using chemicals, dissecting stuff, just exploring other means of of what made things be.
Community & Health	We, you know, we kind of did it in school, absolutely at that point later on, you know, where the girls last time we buy we did date outside, but that was like just, you know, in school, you know, girlfriend
Education & Innovation	Yeah, graduated, and one of the first people like you saying actually only got black, black male that went to quote, we gonna say d1 school
Community & Health	And then, you know the thing back then too, it was a stigma on athletes in terms of football players being dumb.
Education & Innovation	You know, when you say you get to college, do your homework, go to class.
Community & Health	Have a high esteem, thought, value about who you are, what you can do, what you can become
Education & Innovation	You know, I was an honor roll student.
Community & Health	We all dreamed from where I'm from, going there and playing, but, you know, that didn't quite happen.
Education & Innovation	Make sure you do your homework.
Education & Innovation	that's what boys dream of right now, going to a d1 university.
Education & Innovation	Because you mentioned how much of an achiever you were, academically on and off the field, as they say
Education & Innovation	Didn't have a middle school at that time.
Education & Innovation	Sure so my earliest recollect in school is first grade that didn't go to kindergarten.
Family & History	my grandfather was the principal of my elementary school
Family & History	I remember my first grade teacher being a black woman, Dean Davis, my dad's high school best friend and my family's neighbor.
Community & Health	Broxton, Georgia, okay, okay, small town in Coffey County, about two hours and a half hours
Community & Health	You know, I know the demographic of the town back then it was, if not 50, because, if not majority, then close to 50% black.
Community & Health	And you know, it was, of course, 70 and early 70s segregated
Education & Innovation	Don't dream small. Dream big.
Community & Health	So 7677 would have been at least half black in Brockton. It's a small, a small, small, little town
Family & History	So it's tough for me, because I, you know, my family really build their uppers.
Community & Health	That's because we were always taught that we were just as good as everybody else.
Education & Innovation	He was my principal, as I said, according to him, My IQ was too high for kindergarten.
Education & Innovation	I had to miss my first kindergarten year because of how smart I was.
Education & Innovation	Yeah, so probably not first and second grade, which are the years that I went to school in Georgia.
Family & History	Then my mother relocated us to Fort Walton Beach, Florida, which is was away from my whole family.
Family & History	Both sides of my family are in that South Georgia area, so I still consider at home today, but we moved to Fort Walton Beach when I was in third grade.
Education & Innovation	And I think in third grade, Miss holiday was my English teacher, and the subject English.
Education & Innovation	But I also fell in love with storytelling, and therefore English.
Community & Health	So I came from a very small town that most of us are related.
Community & Health	So my lifelong friends and my first friends were all my cousins. And the folks who in town who weren't our cousins. They were our play play cousins.
Community & Health	So yeah, I do remember all of my friends from, you know, lifelong friends from Georgia.
Community & Health	Eglin Air Force Base is there, and I went to what they call the quote, unquote, white schools, you know, and then there was a, there were the quote, unquote black schools, you know, junior high school.
Community & Health	I don't think I recall it as much in elementary school, but the demographics in Fort Walton are probably because it's a military town, there are a lot of a lot of ethnicities there.
Community & Health	I recall there being a lot of Vietnam, probably, I don't know, 20% black or African American, if I'm trying to look back, probably somewhere in that neighborhood.
Community & Health	The town wasn't as segregated because it's a military town.
Family & History	Yes, because of my parents, particularly my mother, they they desegregated their their school, you know, they went to, it was an elementary school
Education & Innovation	When I moved to four walks and beach and I were and I was, you know, in gifted classes, I would be the only black a lot of the time.
Education & Innovation	So if you were gifted, you would leave your regular school one day a week and go to the Learning Center on Thursday and spend your day at the Learning Center.
Community & Health	You know, I was like, the only black cheerleader, only black, just only like that.
Family & History	I recall now being on this side of of my life, remembering folks like my parents saying, you know, when I see you, I don't even see color.
Community & Health	I don't even think of you as black and and like, you know, I grew up in a black, black power kind of household, so that was one of the most important things for me, like, I'm Christian and I'm black, I'm black before I'm woman.
Community & Health	But internally, what I would tell them is, for sure, you and help educate your friends, particularly those who you know, liking for you
Family & History	I didn't have to deal with colorism because of my family. They really did instill in us, like we all that.
Family & History	All seven of the grandchildren did. So we kind of moved kind of different.
Community & Health	It always told me I had to be better than, you know, do twice as much like all black kids who are taught, but I would just tell her to be her and to help educate her
Family & History	I was having such a I had a very close relationship with my dad, and he took me everywhere with him.
Education & Innovation	I did not want to go to school.
Family & History	So prior to school, my mother worked outside of the house. He worked. He was the person that stayed at home.
Family & History	Anyway, it started out a little rocky, okay, once I got started, I have an older brother that's three years older than me.
Family & History	Okay, my father had my mom. And Father had two lots.
Community & Health	And so I grew up a very healthy life in terms of my health.
Education & Innovation	The school itself did not have the things that I go and see now at Edison elementary school, as a community school
Education & Innovation	So we moved to this other neighborhood, went to a different elementary school, and in fact, in the sixth grade, I was awarded the most outstanding student.
Community & Health	Even though we lived in the hood, we didn't know we was in the hood because there was boundaries.
Education & Innovation	Okay, yeah, during the school year it was, it was basically we did our homework at the kit at the dining room table.
Education & Innovation	They demanded that we do our homework.
Family & History	My older brother, I was always felt in competition with him
Family & History	I'm trying to keep up with my brother. My brother is a technology genius.
Business & Finance	He has trained so many folks over the last 40 years from all of the military, and he that now does AI classes
Education & Innovation	And I can remember I didn't get a good grade in my algebra class
Family & History	Now, yeah, yeah, but it, what it taught me is that our parents and our family structure means a whole lot.
Education & Innovation	Teachers can do so much, but it's really down to that community base. I mean, we had, I mean, everything in in the neighborhood before we moved like the barber shop.
Business & Finance	My mom worked at the Y MCA, I mean, I'm sorry, the Y W C A, they have very p, y W C A, they are structured just for women.
Business & Finance	Well, the YWCA was structured for women, and they had a facility in Flint, Michigan, my mom got to be the supervisor over the cleaning staff, right, okay, but she took advantage of her time there because she had me in every class she you can imagine.
Family & History	Then on Sunday afternoon, she would always have a big family dinner with the cousins and everybody coming around that they were my first cousins.
Education & Innovation	They went to Michigan State
Business & Finance	A couple of them got in with General Motors, but I would hear the stories about and I got used to get excited
Family & History	It wasn't just the immediate family, it was the whole family.
Community & Health	So it's more than just what we can do for the students. It's a community thing
Family & History	And, and it's time to put away those family disputes and don't like Uncle so and so they think they better than us all.

Education & Innovation

Ask you some questions about your middle school experience.

Education & Innovation

I felt good because my preparation from elementary school in terms of what their mindset was, that it was preparing us for the future in terms of being, you know, smart individuals.

Community & Health

It was mixed. I was integration first class.

Community & Health

It was quite an experience, really, in terms of the mindset that we had at that time, in terms of the thought about what white folks had about us and what we could do and what we could be, that type of thing.

Family & History

And then a couple other fellow, James Spann, you know, I can see my brother, who's right behind me, you know, that's kind of was a little game, but, and then we was involved in sports, all of us.

Education & Innovation

And outside of that, we used to, we were involved in a program called upper bound, and then that, you know, helped us with preparing to go to, you know, higher level.

Community & Health

I'm so happy to be a proud of in terms of how we can make a difference in, you know, our communities, and with young folks in terms of they need, in terms of, like, we're just saying, You need to be a tentative of them.

Faith & Spirituality

Guess where Grandma told me so yeah it was my prayer just speaking with you and you have a great day and God bless you and continue to keep up with good work that you're doing this outstanding.

Education & Innovation

I actually went to Newberry, Junior Senior High School.

Community & Health

So, you know, but it was an adjustment, and, you know, in terms of dealing with each other and the difference that we had in our opinions at that time.

Education & Innovation

You know we was, you know, just as good, equal, if not better than anybody else you know.

Community & Health

And you know, TV, watching games, growing up, like you're saying in the NFL, you know, and then terms of what we had to do back then

Education & Innovation

It gave you a chance to create different things, using chemicals, dissecting stuff, just exploring other means of of what made things be.

Community & Health

We, you know, we kind of did it in school, absolutely at that point later on, you know, where the girls last time we buy we did date outside, but that was like just, you know, in school, you know, girlfriend

Education & Innovation

Yeah, graduated, and one of the first people like you saying actually only got black, black male that went to quote, we gonna say d1 school

Community & Health

And then, you know the thing back then too, it was a stigma on athletes in terms of football players being dumb.

Education & Innovation

You know, when you say you get to college, do your homework, go to class.

Community & Health

Have a high esteem, thought, value about who you are, what you can do, what you can become

Education & Innovation

You know, I was an honor roll student.

Community & Health

We all dreamed from where I'm from, going there and playing, but, you know, that didn't quite happen.

Education & Innovation

Make sure you do your homework.

Education & Innovation

that's what boys dream of right now, going to a d1 university.

Education & Innovation

Because you mentioned how much of an achiever you were, academically on and off the field, as they say

Education & Innovation

Didn't have a middle school at that time.

Education & Innovation

Sure so my earliest recollect in school is first grade that didn't go to kindergarten.

Family & History

my grandfather was the principal of my elementary school

Family & History

I remember my first grade teacher being a black woman, Dean Davis, my dad's high school best friend and my family's neighbor.

Community & Health

Broxton, Georgia, okay, okay, small town in Coffey County, about two hours and a half hours

Community & Health

You know, I know the demographic of the town back then it was, if not 50, because, if not majority, then close to 50% black.

Community & Health

And you know, it was, of course, 70 and early 70s segregated

Education & Innovation

Don't dream small. Dream big.

Community & Health

So 7677 would have been at least half black in Brockton. It's a small, a small, small, little town

Family & History

So it's tough for me, because I, you know, my family really build their uppers.

Community & Health

That's because we were always taught that we were just as good as everybody else.

Education & Innovation

He was my principal, as I said, according to him, My IQ was too high for kindergarten.

Education & Innovation

I had to miss my first kindergarten year because of how smart I was.

Education & Innovation

Yeah, so probably not first and second grade, which are the years that I went to school in Georgia.

Family & History

Then my mother relocated us to Fort Walton Beach, Florida, which is was away from my whole family.

Family & History

Both sides of my family are in that South Georgia area, so I still consider at home today, but we moved to Fort Walton Beach when I was in third grade.

Education & Innovation

And I think in third grade, Miss holiday was my English teacher, and the subject English.

Education & Innovation

But I also fell in love with storytelling, and therefore English.

Community & Health

So I came from a very small town that most of us are related.

Community & Health

So my lifelong friends and my first friends were all my cousins. And the folks who in town who weren't our cousins. They were our play play cousins.

Community & Health

So yeah, I do remember all of my friends from, you know, lifelong friends from Georgia.

Community & Health

Eglin Air Force Base is there, and I went to what they call the quote, unquote, white schools, you know, and then there was a, there were the quote, unquote black schools, you know, junior high school.

Community & Health

I don't think I recall it as much in elementary school, but the demographics in Fort Walton are probably because it's a military town, there are a lot of a lot of ethnicities there.

Community & Health

I recall there being a lot of Vietnam, probably, I don't know, 20% black or African American, if I'm trying to look back, probably somewhere in that neighborhood.

Community & Health

The town wasn't as segregated because it's a military town.

Family & History

Yes, because of my parents, particularly my mother, they they desegregated their their school, you know, they went to, it was an elementary school

Education & Innovation

When I moved to four walks and beach and I were and I was, you know, in gifted classes, I would be the only black a lot of the time.

Education & Innovation

So if you were gifted, you would leave your regular school one day a week and go to the Learning Center on Thursday and spend your day at the Learning Center.

Community & Health

You know, I was like, the only black cheerleader, only black, just only like that.

Family & History

I recall now being on this side of of my life, remembering folks like my parents saying, you know, when I see you, I don't even see color.

Community & Health

I don't even think of you as black and and like, you know, I grew up in a black, black power kind of household, so that was one of the most important things for me, like, I'm Christian and I'm black, I'm black before I'm woman.

Community & Health

But internally, what I would tell them is, for sure, you and help educate your friends, particularly those who you know, liking for you

Family & History

I didn't have to deal with colorism because of my family. They really did instill in us, like we all that.

Family & History

All seven of the grandchildren did. So we kind of moved kind of different.

Community & Health

It always told me I had to be better than, you know, do twice as much like all black kids who are taught, but I would just tell her to be her and to help educate her

Family & History

I was having such a I had a very close relationship with my dad, and he took me everywhere with him.

Education & Innovation

I did not want to go to school.

Family & History

So prior to school, my mother worked outside of the house. He worked. He was the person that stayed at home.

Family & History

Anyway, it started out a little rocky, okay, once I got started, I have an older brother that's three years older than me.

Family & History

Okay, my father had my mom. And Father had two lots.

Community & Health

And so I grew up a very healthy life in terms of my health.

Education & Innovation

The school itself did not have the things that I go and see now at Edison elementary school, as a community school

Education & Innovation

So we moved to this other neighborhood, went to a different elementary school, and in fact, in the sixth grade, I was awarded the most outstanding student.

Community & Health

Even though we lived in the hood, we didn't know we was in the hood because there was boundaries.

Education & Innovation

Okay, yeah, during the school year it was, it was basically we did our homework at the kit at the dining room table.

Education & Innovation

They demanded that we do our homework.

Family & History

My older brother, I was always felt in competition with him

Family & History

I'm trying to keep up with my brother. My brother is a technology genius.

Business & Finance

He has trained so many folks over the last 40 years from all of the military, and he that now does AI classes

Education & Innovation

And I can remember I didn't get a good grade in my algebra class

Family & History

Now, yeah, yeah, but it, what it taught me is that our parents and our family structure means a whole lot.

Education & Innovation

Teachers can do so much, but it's really down to that community base. I mean, we had, I mean, everything in in the neighborhood before we moved like the barber shop.

Business & Finance

My mom worked at the Y MCA, I mean, I'm sorry, the Y W C A, they have very p, y W C A, they are structured just for women.

Business & Finance

Well, the YWCA was structured for women, and they had a facility in Flint, Michigan, my mom got to be the supervisor over the cleaning staff, right, okay, but she took advantage of her time there because she had me in every class she you can imagine.

Family & History

Then on Sunday afternoon, she would always have a big family dinner with the cousins and everybody coming around that they were my first cousins.

Education & Innovation

They went to Michigan State

Business & Finance

A couple of them got in with General Motors, but I would hear the stories about and I got used to get excited

Family & History

It wasn't just the immediate family, it was the whole family.

Community & Health

So it's more than just what we can do for the students. It's a community thing

Family & History

And, and it's time to put away those family disputes and don't like Uncle so and so they think they better than us all.

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