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Clint Smith
Born
in Atlanta, The United States
July 11, 1960
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God's Post Office
God’s Post Office
The U.S Postal Service is enduring challenging times. With the advent of new, fast,
and technologically efficient and inexpensisve ways to communicate, the local post office is suffering. There is even discussion about eliminating Saturday letter delivery.
The U.S. Postal System was established in 1775 the Second Continental Congress.
Prior to its creation, there were no post offic Read more of this blog post »
The U.S Postal Service is enduring challenging times. With the advent of new, fast,
and technologically efficient and inexpensisve ways to communicate, the local post office is suffering. There is even discussion about eliminating Saturday letter delivery.
The U.S. Postal System was established in 1775 the Second Continental Congress.
Prior to its creation, there were no post offic Read more of this blog post »
More books by Clint Smith…
“you do not go to a garden to watch
the flowers grow
you go to give thanks
for what has already bloomed.”
― Above Ground: Library Edition
the flowers grow
you go to give thanks
for what has already bloomed.”
― Above Ground: Library Edition
“I thought of my primary and secondary education. I remembered feeling crippling guilt as I silently wondered why every enslaved person couldn’t simply escape like Douglass, Tubman, and Jacobs had. I found myself angered by the stories of those who did not escape. Had they not tried hard enough? Didn’t they care enough to do something? Did they choose to remain enslaved? This, I now realize, is part of the insidiousness of white supremacy; it illuminates the exceptional in order to implicitly blame those who cannot, in the most brutal circumstances, attain superhuman heights. It does this instead of blaming the system, the people who built it, the people who maintained it”
― How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers): Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America
― How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers): Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America
“The echo of enslavement is everywhere. It is in the levees, originally built by enslaved labour. It is in the detailed architecture of some of the city's oldest buildings, sculpted by enslaved hands. It is in the roads, first paved by enslaved people.”
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