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Thinking about LBJ [1]

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Date: 2023-06-15

Watching Morning Joe but also reading evil Twitter. But I was thinking about a tweet about Abbott trying to bring in vouchers for private schools. I went to Edgewood schools described in Jonathon Kozol’s book Savage Inequalities. My dad was a “Crack welder” (very good) for the Kelly US air force during the . I grew up in a new single house neighborhood and went to a new school. My dad bought three lots behind our house to block a sewage pond that was being planned to be put there. that made for extra financial hardship but gave us the best play ground in the neighbor hood. My dad put chalk around and made a baseball field. Right, we had our own baseball field. Of course it took a long time to get one at the park near us. We had sand pit for the long jump and practice pole vaulting with bamboo poles. We didn’t have much, but we had a lot more compared to a lot of people around us. The boy scouts and the scout master from across the street used our back yard. It was a very boy oriented home. I know for sure that the Vietnam war put food on our table and clothes on our backs. My high school was so poor that it wasn’t considered accredited school by local universities. But unfortunately, I was very well aware of the educational discrimination I was experiencing. So of course when The Civil Rights Act came through I was kinda too young to understand. However, LBJ was president during the war and San Antonio was in the thick of it. My uncles were upholstering airplane seats and packing parachutes. My brother went into the Navy and secretly went to Laos. Naval air reconnaissance. Even my high school was named Memorial after all the Mexican American boys thrown at the war. The planes from Lackland broke the sound barrier frequently as pilots practiced overhead. So the war had a big impact in my life.

That said, LBJ did a lot of good and this piece does a nice job of describing how he started out at the bottom and kept climbing. All those little Mexican children gave him a step up. He remembered them.

I invite you to click the link.

“As a son of a tenant farmer, I know that education is the only valid passport from poverty.

From Teacher to President

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