Educational Differences: A Urban Perspective
Educational Differences: A Urban Perspective Educational Differences College Material: An Urban Perspective Thank God for sports. Sports, more than anything else gave me a voice. It gave me an outlet to express myself, to share my athletic gifts with the masses. For most African American Males growing up in the inner-city, sports put us on a fast-track to success. Thanks to sports, I saw light at the end of the tunnel in an environment where crime, violence, failure was prevalent. I have pretty good relationships with my Professors from college, but they all know, that when asked, I tell them, despite their investment in me, sports, the game of football in particular, was my best teacher. In our community, not all of us have access to college. To be honest, most of our parents never went to begin with so, to not go is an acceptable excuse. But the excuse that was most heard in communities plagued with despair was feeling as if we were not " College Material ...