Things like a mother s love.
Things like a grandmother s wisdom.
Things like courage and determination and resiliency and pride.
All of those things shaped Bailey into the young man he is today - a young man who was just elected student body president for the upcoming school year at Appalachian State University in Boone. I was an unwed Black mother, said Polly Gardin Kitchens, while taking a quick break from her job as a 911 dispatcher in Mecklenburg County. I had a Black son. But I was not going to let him become a statistic. I would not let that happen.