He Was Trying To Convince Himself That

There Is A Crisis Involving Reading In Certain Communities.

I Read A Lot Of Comic Books And Any Kind Of Thing I Could Find. One Day, A Teacher Found Me. She Grabbed My Comic Book And Tore It Up. I Was Really Upset, But Then She Brought In A Pile Of Books From Her Own Library. That Was The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me.

Within The Black Community, Roughly 60 Percent Of Children Are Born To Single Moms. Moms Don't Have The Emotional Wherewithal To Deal With Their Children. Their English Is Atrocious. Their Speaking Is Atrocious. The Dropout Rate Is Horrendous.

No Matter What...ball Made My Heart Beat Faster, Made Me Want To Jump Up And Down And Be Superman. That's What Life Was About Anyway, Being Superman And Living Like Life Itself Was Important. Basketball Made My Life Important.

But In The End, We Learn We Can Forgive Most People. The Cushion Of Mortality Makes Their Wrongdoing Seem Less Dark, And Whatever Roads They Traveled Seem Less Foolhardy.