This...."some of America’s most exclusive and expensive preparatory schools, whose students, I would safely assume, also suffered humiliating defeats at the hands of the Atlanta contingent in the dormitory Spades contests."

😁

GeoWilliam750

(2,521 posts)

2. Hats off to young people who work hard and focus (and to their teachers)

Reply to heaven05 (Original post)

Thu Jul 26, 2018, 06:30 PM

Jul 2018

"Fleming and the Diversity Project team pared a group of about 150 applicants down to 25 and spent months preparing the students by teaching analysis, critical thinking, public speaking, leadership and culture. "

This sounds like something that should be taught in regular classes across the United States, and help yet more well-trained, motivated, thinking young people rise in positions of leadership.

hlthe2b

(102,119 posts)

3. Yup... absolutely

Reply to GeoWilliam750 (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 26, 2018, 06:32 PM

Jul 2018

Kind of Blue

(8,709 posts)

4. YAY, Dammit!

Reply to heaven05 (Original post)

Thu Jul 26, 2018, 06:45 PM

Jul 2018

This line cracked me up

"While I partially attribute the success to many of the students living amongst some of the greatest debaters in world culture—black mothers—the transcripts of the debates show that none of the Atlanta students used 'because I said so,' as a rebuttal during the competition.

sheshe2

(83,654 posts)

7. Lol...

Reply to Kind of Blue (Reply #4)

Thu Jul 26, 2018, 08:41 PM

Jul 2018

This too.

Although the program succeeded beyond anyone’s wildest expectation, very few of the Atlanta students have reported winning an argument against their mother about why they didn’t take the chicken out of the freezer.

You can never win an argument with your mother.

Kind of Blue

(8,709 posts)

8. Indeed, Sheshe!

Reply to sheshe2 (Reply #7)

Thu Jul 26, 2018, 08:56 PM

Jul 2018

And still, though my Mom is gone now, I can hear her respond to every doubt, argument for procrastination, and hate that may pop up in my heart and I lose every single time