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Happy BIrthday Ron Isley

So I got accepted into Famu mpa online program and I want to say thank you to this sub and all the good advice I received. i been contemplating this for two years and I am just grateful for the encouragement and even people who reached out to me in the dms bout their own masters degree journey especially with how to pay for this shit haha

I cant wait to be a rattler !!!

I came to this conclusion myself when I went last Friday with my good friend who is a high school teacher and she was chaperoning the Gradnite field trip and chaperones can bring someone so she asked me to go.

I found myself being somewhat bitter because these kids did not have the same restrictions or rules that I had over a decade ago . When i went to gradnite we could not wear any shirts with sayings on it because they had problems with different schools with rivalries fighting.

If we wore jeans they could not have holes in them and i actually got sent home and had to change because they said my shorts were too short. They also had to search us and make us go through a metal detector.

The kids my friend had in her group could wear what they want, they did not have to get searched and I remember thinking damn these kids have it so easy and then i felt silly cause I am glad these kids can enjoy something like gradnight without bs and judgements .

I been seeing a lot of videos of people calling black teens going to prom "hood prom" and videos of teens graduating and dancing across the stage are going viral . There is a video of a girl walking across the stage and only shaking the hands of the teachers she liked and people are calling her all types of hoodrats.

The hood prom commentary went viral cause a maga white woman was criticizing it saying this is the closest black teen girls will ever get to being married. I seen other black youtubers making videos agreeing with her which i think was sad but eye opening . Most of the people who agreed all started with the sentence WHEN I WENT TO PROM and discussed how cheap their dresses and tuxedos were and they did not need to front for social media and you can just here the bitterness in their voices.

If we are being honest there are a lot of millennial and even gen x adults who did not have the freedom or funds the youth have today. now do not get me wrong its some stuff I see that annoys me(like boys wearing wrinkled tuxedos to prom) but I remind myself that this is not my generation nor my kids so why get mad.

I even did something I said I would never do and I paid $250 for my little cousins prom dress cause she works hard and her mother needed help.

The younger generation aint perfect but I am glad they are having fun in their own way. A lot of black teens dont make it to gradnite,prom,or graduation so why bash them ? I think some of these adults need to come to terms with why they are angry.

The root published a love letter to Meg and omg this damn near had me in tears yall