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Originally Posted by msyorktown  Taylor...first of all calm down....second the above statement in itself is racist and I find that extremely offensive. I am a black single mother of three, two of them boys. One was promised a scholarship to a college in Iowa...yes he qualified... straight A student....he never got that scholarship...I paid for that year in Iowa....coach benched him for the entire season...both he and the other Canadian black student that went with him. Coach did not like them....FACT...said that right to my face when I went down there. My son jumped through hoops to get into that college...did everything he was supposed to, got nothing back in return for his hard work. He couldn't transfer the credits he earned from that year in Iowa, when I told him to come home. A complete waste of time and money and one very disappointed young man.....and a seriously pizzed off mother.
As for my job..I am an operator for the fourth largest public transportation corporation in North America....worked my ass off for that job, a job I am proud off, a job I earned...it wasn't handed to me bc of my skin colour...I had to qualify for it....There is no way in God's green earth that we..people of colour have it easier than anyone else....I would really like to know where you got that information from? |
My heart goes out to your son. I know how it feels to try so hard for something and it doesn't go as planned. I look up to all single mothers not because I want to be one but because its hard work.