Photos: © Deborah Daniels Dawson
By Deborah Daniels Dawson
TO MY DEAREST FAMILY and I’m not just talking to the Young . . .
TO ALL OF YOU TALENTED EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE!
WHY ARE YOU COMPLANING?
Gallery: The way it was for some . . .
Do you know your family history?
Do you know YOUR ANCESTORS hardships?
Do you know how they had to get from here to there?
Do you KNOW their long range goals?
Especially when the short range goal was to survive!
That long goal was focused on YOU!
There were sometimes no schools nearby for them to learn?
Worse yet, they were sometimes forbidden from learning!
Books were banned!
There were no laws in place to keep the children out of the fields, working morning to night!
Coming home to a decent meal and a nice warm bed to sleep on should not be taken for granted because it was not always so “commonplace.”
But our ancestors survived, thrived and achieved their long range goals.
We are a testatment to that victory!
So WHY are you COMPLAINING!!!
We are a family of Achievers!

Shuvonne Mayers — WHFR 2024 Scholarship
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