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@clark22fan one would think that White would like her legacy as a coach to be working with and helping grow and expand the depth of Caitlin Clark. Become a partner instead of the block.

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@millieyaps Amen, Amen, Amen!!! Same here

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@GrageDustin he has before...

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@candiburke stunning photo

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Speaking of Juneteenth, I'd like to recommend a book. It's Booker T. Washington's "Up from Slavery." As most of us know, Booker was born on a slave plantation, was liberated, received education & became one of the black community's leading intellectuals, eventually founding Tuskegee Univ. In that endeavor he had students help him build the campus, brick by brick. His autobiography is a very well written account of his experiences, his thoughts on race relations, as well as his work building up the black community. Today's progressives will despise him for downplaying the severity of slavery & noting how the slaves he knew largely had positive relations with the plantation owners. His basic message was that black people can empower themselves through education & entrepreneurship. This didn't sit well with the racial agitators of the day, like W.E.B. Du Bois, who attacked him often. But he was popular amongst both races, and "Up from Slavery" was a best-seller that gave him national prominence. Some select wisdom from the book: “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” “The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.” “Among a large class, there seemed to be a dependence upon the government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the federal officials to create one for them. How many times I wished then and have often wished since, that by some power of magic, I might remove the great bulk of these people into the country districts and plant them upon the soil – upon the solid and never deceptive foundation of Mother Nature, where all nations and races that have ever succeeded have gotten their start – a start that at first may be slow and toilsome, but one that nevertheless is real.” “In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.” And my favorite thing of all. Rather than feel sorry for himself whenever he encountered racist behavior, he felt sympathy for the racist: “I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice.” “They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on account of this treatment, but those who are inflicting it upon me.” This is the way.

tomselliott's tweet photo. Speaking of Juneteenth, I'd like to recommend a book.

It's Booker T. Washington's "Up from Slavery."

As most of us know, Booker was born on a slave plantation, was liberated, received education & became one of the black community's leading intellectuals, eventually founding Tuskegee Univ. In that endeavor he had students help him build the campus, brick by brick.

His autobiography is a very well written account of his experiences, his thoughts on race relations, as well as his work building up the black community.

Today's progressives will despise him for downplaying the severity of slavery & noting how the slaves he knew largely had positive relations with the plantation owners.

His basic message was that black people can empower themselves through education & entrepreneurship. This didn't sit well with the racial agitators of the day, like W.E.B. Du Bois, who attacked him often. But he was popular amongst both races, and "Up from Slavery" was a best-seller that gave him national prominence.

Some select wisdom from the book:

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

“The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.”

“Among a large class, there seemed to be a dependence upon the government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the federal officials to create one for them. How many times I wished then and have often wished since, that by some power of magic, I might remove the great bulk of these people into the country districts and plant them upon the soil – upon the solid and never deceptive foundation of Mother Nature, where all nations and races that have ever succeeded have gotten their start – a start that at first may be slow and toilsome, but one that nevertheless is real.”

“In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.”

And my favorite thing of all. Rather than feel sorry for himself whenever he encountered racist behavior, he felt sympathy for the racist:

“I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice.”

“They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on account of this treatment, but those who are inflicting it upon me.”

This is the way.

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