to appreciate that they have the capacity to overcome these barriers is at the heart of what i m trying to say. i ve been in montgomery, without travelling as a result of the pandemic, for about 20 months, and it s been really interesting to have this kind of time because i ve realised that i stand on the shoulders of people who did so much more with so much less. i m the heir of a generation of black people who would put on their sunday best and go places to push for the right to vote, push for the right to be legally accepted, and they d be on their knees, praying, knowing that they were going to get battered and bloodied and beaten by the police, and yet they still went. and there is a courage and a strength in that narrative that that young boy needs to hear and understand. my grandparents fled lynching violence in the deep south and had to cope with these threats and this menacing throughout their lives.
and a strength in that narrative that that young boy needs to hear and understand. my grandparents fled lynching violence in the deep south and had to cope with these threats and this menacing throughout their lives. my great grandfather was enslaved, learned to read while enslaved because he had a belief that one day he d be free. there was nothing rational about believing that emancipation was going to come to enslaved black people in virginia in the 1850s, and yet my great grandfather had that belief, and when emancipation did come, he would read to all of the formerly enslaved people on his porch each week the newspaper so that they would have information to help them manage the complexity of life as a formerly enslaved person in this country that was still denying
of black people who would put on their sunday best and go places to push for the right to vote, push for the right to be legally accepted, and they d be on their knees, praying, knowing that they were going to get battered and bloodied and beaten by the police, and yet they still went. and there is a courage and a strength in that narrative that that young boy needs to hear and understand. my grandparents fled lynching violence in the deep south and had to cope with these threats and this menacing throughout their lives. my great grandfather was enslaved, learned to read while enslaved because he had a belief that one day he d be free. there was nothing rational about believing that emancipation was going to come to enslaved black people in virginia in the 1850s, and yet my great grandfather had that belief, and when emancipation did come, he would read to all of the formerly enslaved people on his porch each week the newspaper so that they would have information to help them manage th
the capacity to overcome these barriers is at the heart of what i m trying to say. i ve been in montgomery, without travelling as a result of the pandemic, for about 20 months, and it s been really interesting to have this kind of time because i ve realised that i stand on the shoulders of people who did so much more with so much less. i m the heir of a generation of black people who would put on their sunday best and go places to push for the right to vote, push for the right to be legally accepted, and they d be on their knees, praying, knowing that they were going to get battered and bloodied and beaten by the police, and yet they still went. and there is a courage and a strength in that narrative that that young boy needs to hear and understand. my grandparents fled lynching violence in the deep south and had to cope with these threats and this menacing throughout their lives. my great grandfather was enslaved, learned to read while enslaved because he had
on their sunday best and go places to push for the right to vote, push for the right to be legally accepted, and they d be on their knees, praying, knowing that they were going to get battered and bloodied and beaten by the police, and yet they still went. and there is a courage and a strength in that narrative that that young boy needs to hear and understand. my grandparents fled lynching violence in the deep south and had to cope with these threats and this menacing throughout their lives. my great grandfather was enslaved, learned to read while enslaved because he had a belief that one day he d be free. there was nothing rational about believing that emancipation was going to come to enslaved black people in virginia in the 1850s, and yet my great grandfather had that belief, and when emancipation did come, he would read to all of the formerly enslaved people on his porch each week the newspaper so that they would have information to help them manage the complexity of life as a form