Congrats to our boys’ basketball teams! CLASSICAL had 4 teams in the final round of the GCCYS tournament this season. A special congrats to Coach Williams and his 6th grade boys, who finished their undefeated season with 1st place. The boys sung our Alma Mater to celebrate!
“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.
Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees... Fought in World Wars as soldiers to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood... and in spite of it all someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here and you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit? How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!
Give this to your young people who don’t know their history and want to get weak!
It is NOT in our DNA to quit!”
Through the ups and Downs, I want to thank everybody for a great ride🏁. Sending love to everybody who helped shaped me on this journey as a man on and off the court. I will always cherish the memories I made with great people I met along the way.
Peace and Love, Bino
Five years of dedication and determination. Marian’s all-time leader in wins.
Thank you Sam Osho for everything you have provided Marian University and the Marian wrestling program!
A legacy that is all but unmatched
On this day in 1969, activist and chairman of the Black Panther Party Fred Hampton, was assassinated by Chicago police and the FBI at just 21 years old.
William O'Neal, an FBI informant, infiltrated the Black Panthers and set up Fred Hampton for $300.
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