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Sandra Davis (Dabney) (1973)
THIS SITE SURE WILL MAKE YOU GO BACK IN TIME!FOR ME I HAVE SHARED SOME GREAT LAUGHS AS WELL AS SHED SOME TEARS. REMEMBERING WHERE WE CAME FROM AND WHERE WE ARE TODAY. I WOULD NOT HAVE THOUGHT IN A MILLION YEARS THAT WE WOULD BE WHERE WE ARE TO DAY.WHO WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT WE WOULD HAVE OUR FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT NOW? THAT WE WOULD ONE DAY BE ABLE TO GO ON THE BOARDWALK AT JACKSONVILLE BEACH AND SHARE THE SAME WATER THAT GOD CREATED FOR US ALL WE CAN ALL LOOK BACK AND LAUGH AT A LOT OF THINGS THAT HAPPENED BACK THEN.I WISH I COULD HAVE TAKEN EVERY BLACK I KNOW TO THE INAUGURATION. THAT WAS AN EXPERIENCE I WILL NEVER FORGET AS LONG AS I LIVE. TO SEE SO MANY PEOPLE OUR AGE. OLDER AND YOUNGER CRYING. IT WAS UNBELIEVEABLE. THERE WERE PEOPLE IN WHEELCHAIRS, PEOPLE THAT HAD TO BE IN THERE 90'S MAYBE OLDER WHO WHETHERED THE COLD JUST TO BE THERE. I LOVE THE COLD BUT THAT MORNING GETTING OUT IN THE TEENS AT 2AM WAS WORTH THE 3 LAYERS OF CLOTHES I HAD ON.I AM SO GRATEFUL TO GOD THAT MY CHILDRENS WAS A PART OF IT ALSO. THEY DON'T KNOW THE REAL STRUGGLE. MY SON AND OLDEST DAUGHTER HAS LEARNED SO MUCH ABOUT OUR CULTURE SINCE THEY HAVE BEEN IN MARYLAND AND DC.IT'S AMAZING WHAT WE WERE NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOL. IF THEY HAD TAUGHT US SOME OF WHAT THEY KNEW WE WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT WE HAVE A RIGHT TO BECOME WHATEVER WE CHOOSE TO BE IN THIS LIFE.TO SEE A YOUNG MAN ASK HIS LITTLE 3YEAR OLD WHO WAS ON THE COVER OF A MAGAZINE AND THE LITTLE BOY REPLIED THAT'S OBAMA! I HAD TO SMILE AND BE GRATEFUL BECAUSE THE YOUNG DAD COULD HAVE BEEN TEACHING HIM ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE.ONE LAST THOUGHT, IF THEY HAD KNOWN THEY WAS BRING THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT OVER HERE FROM AFRICA, THEY WOULD HAVE LEFT US WHERE WE WERE.THINK ABOUT REV. MARTIN LUTHER KINGS SPEECH I HAVE BEEN TO THE MOUNTAIN TOP AND SEEN THE PROMISE LAND WE SHALL OVER COME.HE KNEW WE WOULD ONE DAY BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.HE ALREADY TOLD US THAT SO WE SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED. I NEED A JOB! MY MIND BE IN PLACES IT SHOULDN'T BE SOMETIMES AND THAT'S REAL SCARY.
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