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When our elders presented school to us, they did not present it as a place of...
Author:
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Book:
Between the World and Me
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When our elders presented school to us, they did not present it as a place of high learning but as a means of escape from death and penal warehousing.
( Ta-Nehisi Coates )
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