W.E.B. Dubois’s Magnificent Letter of Advice to His Teenage Daughter
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W.E.B. Dubois’s Magnificent Letter of Advice to His Teenage Daughter
Beautiful letter from W.E.B. DuBois to his daughter Yolande
Trish Thomas
Principal & Lead Strategist at Akamai Strategy, Founder of Lark Builders
March 12, 2016
I just had the privilege of discovering this beautiful letter from a father to a daughter as she stepped into the great unknown. Yolande was the daughter of W.E.B. DuBois and went abroad to a... See more
Trish Thomas
Principal & Lead Strategist at Akamai Strategy, Founder of Lark Builders
March 12, 2016
I just had the privilege of discovering this beautiful letter from a father to a daughter as she stepped into the great unknown. Yolande was the daughter of W.E.B. DuBois and went abroad to a... See more
Beautiful letter from W.E.B. DuBois to his daughter Yolande
The fact is, “exceptional Negroes” have always been a staple of an apartheid-like educational system that separates the “gifted” from the “normal,” and both from the “naughty” or “underachieving.” Sticks and stones will only break my bones, but words can lift or crush me.
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And then the other room was me, my mom and my older brother and the house is still there.
And like my daughter goes to private school She lives in an insane neighborhood She has tutors She has everything And so her understanding that she like oh shit Again she didn curse But she understands like you as my father are very different from everybody
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