Ever met someone that couldn't read?

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naw i knew about floyd, but i didnt know fantasia was on that Zero from Holes shyt:ohhh:
yeah shyt was a big story some years ago

Fantasia Barrino reveals she's illiterate
NEW YORK (AP) — American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino reveals in her memoirs that she is functionally illiterate and had to fake her way through some scripted portions of the televised talent show, which she won in 2004.

"You're illiterate to just about everything. You don't want to misspell," Fantasia told ABC's 20/20. "So that, for me, kept me in a box and I didn't, wouldn't come out."

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The 21-year-old R&B singer says she's signed record deals and contracts that she didn't read and couldn't understand. But the hardest part, she said, is not being able to read to Zion, her 4-year-old daughter.

"That hurts really bad," she said, adding that she is now learning to read with tutors.

In her memoir, Life is Not a Fairy Tale, which she dictated to a freelance writer, Fantasia also said she was raped in the ninth grade by a classmate. She says the boy was disciplined, but she blamed herself for the attack.

She dropped out of high school that year and became an unwed mother at 17.
 

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Knew maybe one or so older folks in my family that I heard couldn't read. Never was confirmed. Like someone mentioned, many of the older generation that migrated here didn't get the proper schooling back in their countries.
 

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Yeah, my manager. He can't read for shyt, he can't spell, can not do math; he's white. I had a manager before him that was black and he knew everything and fixed everything; but he got demoted and they hired this dumbass. The brother had a calculator for a brain. When my white manager now startes to read, I try my hardest not to laugh, there are people at my job; where english is their second language and read and spell better than him.
 
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