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Becoming a Black Book Worm.
I did a lot of stuff as a kid, but my biggest accomplishment was reading and learning about the world and currents events independent of school. My folks raised us like that. This is mostly pre-1995 or pre-Microsoft Windows '95 which I call the real beginning of the Internet for the masses.
There were books and magazines and newspapers everywhere. Plus I didn't have cable so I didn't have a choice but to read and entertain myself that way
By default, ncobody had to force me to read...I just formed a hunger for knowledge. When the internet did come, after looking up rap lyrics, the first thing I searched for was Afro-Latino history, because I was exposed to African American history, but knew there was a whole hemisphere and a 1/2 that had plenty of Diasporic black people I knew nothing about
Now the irony is once I graduated college, and the internet news and resources were more diverse and professional, I learned a lot of stuff I thought was one way, actually had other significant aspects that changed my perspectives.
There were books and magazines and newspapers everywhere. Plus I didn't have cable so I didn't have a choice but to read and entertain myself that way
By default, ncobody had to force me to read...I just formed a hunger for knowledge. When the internet did come, after looking up rap lyrics, the first thing I searched for was Afro-Latino history, because I was exposed to African American history, but knew there was a whole hemisphere and a 1/2 that had plenty of Diasporic black people I knew nothing about
Now the irony is once I graduated college, and the internet news and resources were more diverse and professional, I learned a lot of stuff I thought was one way, actually had other significant aspects that changed my perspectives.
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