While hiking at a local mall I felt “drawn” to an elderly Asian man also hiking there, wearing a Michigan baseball cap.
Upon striking up a conversation and getting acquainted with him I learned that he was from South Korea and that he had arrived here as a refugee with $9.00 to his name.
When I asked about a large ring on his right hand he told me it was his PhD ring from a prestigious left coast university which shall remain unnamed.
Yes, he surely received some preferential treatment and had doors opened for him because of his minority and refugee status. But what made the difference between him and most American Blacks is that he didn’t sit on his rump and take those things for granted. He knuckled down, studied, worked, persevered and in the end retired as a professor at a prestigious east coast university.
God’s Word; Proverbs says, “Deep calleth unto deep....” The cherry on top of this whole story, is the discovery WHY I felt “drawn” to the man. Turns out he was married to a 3rd cousin of mine on my mother’s side, was coached and guided by his father-in-law, and was a true Conservative and Reagan voter.
And the Michigan baseball cap? That was in celebration of he and his wife’s only child, a pre-med student at the University of Michigan!
The same advantages he enjoyed are available to young blacks today, if they would apply themselves. However, as in the case Dr. Ben Carson, I believe a child needs at least 1 parent to push them, encourage them, and compel them to succeed. Neither Mikey Brown’s mother nor sperm donor father ever actually PARENTED him. I understand they were never even married. He was reared by his grandmother. And in his case, the call of the wild won him over in spite of her best efforts. So instead of becoming a successful member of polite society, he wound up a dead thug; regarding whom, the examples are legend.
Great post!