A few years ago, I coached a young black kid on my basketball team. He wasn’t the best player on the team, but he was certainly the most impressive from a character standpoint. He knew my son from advanced math classes at school; the kid was one of the brightest kids in the school and everyone knew it. His goal (which I have no doubt he will succeed at) is to study at John’s Hopkins under Dr. Carson. He picked the right role model.
I wish our media did a better job of promoting Dr. Carson as a role model than the gangsta thugs they routinely portray. Of course, if they did, the whole race game is over, so I guess there’s no incentive for that.
A great story; and kudos to you for your outreach. I took a few ghetto children under my wing some years ago, and they were wonderful until they hit age 12. Then the streets took over. It was heartbreaking. But we have to try to reach as many impoverished youth as we can.