This...."some of America’s most exclusive and expensive preparatory schools, whose students, I would safely assume, also suffered humiliating defeats at the hands of the Atlanta contingent in the dormitory Spades contests."


😁

"Fleming and the Diversity Project team pared a group of about 150 applicants down to 25 and spent months preparing the students by teaching analysis, critical thinking, public speaking, leadership and culture. "

This sounds like something that should be taught in regular classes across the United States, and help yet more well-trained, motivated, thinking young people rise in positions of leadership.

This line cracked me up

"While I partially attribute the success to many of the students living amongst some of the greatest debaters in world culture—black mothers—the transcripts of the debates show that none of the Atlanta students used 'because I said so,' as a rebuttal during the competition.

This too.

You can never win an argument with your mother.

And still, though my Mom is gone now, I can hear her respond to every doubt, argument for procrastination, and hate that may pop up in my heart and I lose every single time

Congratulations to these young students. This is a great accomplishment

K&R

I am grinning from ear to ear!