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 Ultimately, I am responsible for living my own life and for “finding myself”. If I persist in shifting this responsibility to my disabilities, I fail to find out the meaning of my own existence.
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<		John Hope Franklin wasn’t a member of the dominant race. He was forced off an all-white train and made to sit in a segregated section of the Tulsa opera house. He was barred from admission to the University of Oklahoma. As a historian, Prof. Franklin’s scholarship weaved the black experience back into the national tapestry. Unlike many after him, he did not see "black history" as an independent discipline. Rather, what he did was to revise American history as a whole.
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 “I have struggled to understand,” he once said, “how it is that we could fight for independence and, at the very same time, use that newly won independence to enslave many who had joined in the fight for independence”.
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  • I think this is beautifully felt, and gracefully made. Thank you for writing it. May you become who you want to be.
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