To Inspire You

You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were Black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.

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Today In History

• In 1831 - Nat Turner convicted of insurrection in Virginia
  
• In 1988 - The Martin Luther King, Jr federal building dedicated in Atlanta, becoming 1st to bear name of an African American