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    8 Years of Glory: Barack Becomes a Morehouse Man
    8 Years of Glory: Barack Becomes a Morehouse Man
    8 Years of Glory: Barack Becomes a Morehouse Man
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    8 Years of Glory: Barack Becomes a Morehouse Man

    By S. Earl Wilson III

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    The book is about Obama’s excellent job as a president.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateJan 4, 2019
    ISBN9781982211653
    8 Years of Glory: Barack Becomes a Morehouse Man
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    S. Earl Wilson III

    S. Earl Wilson, III comes from a family of educators. His father, a Morehouse College honor graduate, was a high school principal while his mother taught English. He was born and raised in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1955. He was the first African-American to get a master’s degree in science from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1970. He has taught science both in Mississippi and Rockland County, New York, for a total of forty years. During those years of teaching, he has also coached baseball, football, basketball, tennis, girls fast-pitch softball, wrestling, track, soccer, and volleyball. He attributes his tireless working habits as “taking after his daddy.”

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      8 Years of Glory - S. Earl Wilson III

      Copyright © 2019 S. Earl Wilson, III.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      This book is a work of non-fiction. Unless otherwise noted, the author and the publisher make no explicit guarantees as to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and in some cases, names of people and places have been altered to protect their privacy.

      Balboa Press

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      The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

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      ISBN: 978-1-9822-1164-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-9822-1166-0 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-9822-1165-3 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2018910589

      Balboa Press rev. date: 12/07/2018

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      With special recognition to Henry M. Goodgame, Jr., class of 1984, for his complete dedication to Morehouse College, its name, its aims, achievements, and goals as Director of Alumni Relations.

      Much obliged!

      Also, Special Thanks to:

      Anthony Tetro of Dumont, New Jersey

      Paul Toscano of New City, New York

      Stephen Stallone of Clayton, California

      Grazie!

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      As An Inspiration For Afro/American Youth

      One or Some of Sam Wilson’s Books

      A Man And His Books

      8 Years of Glory

      President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address

      Inaugural Ball

      He Be Proud

      Blowing Your Mind

      He Don’t Play

      The Welcoming News of the Death of Osama Bin Laden

      Love of Country Over Race, Religion and Dangers

      He Got Game

      Damn, He’s Cool

      He Be Calm and Collected

      Ain’t He Got Good Religion? Certainly, Certainly Lord

      He Be Cool And Determined

      He Be A Funny Man

      Foods That Barack Obama Eats

      Drinking And Eating Habits Of United States Presidents

      Two Places Of Grandeur

      Petra

      Patriarch-Paternity

      8 Years Of Glory

      America Is Beautiful, But

      In Times Of Disaster

      About The Songs

      In Times Like These

      U.s. Automobile Industry Saved

      Science, Medicine, Technology

      The Precision Medicine Initiative

      President Obama Visits Atlanta

      And We’ll Ever Yea Forever Give Ourselves In Loyalty

      President Obama Delivers Morehouse College Commencement Address

      And Barack Becomes A Morehouse Man!

      Epilogue

      Hallelujah! Glory!

      Appendix

      The City Of Michelle’s

      Today, Tomorrow, Forever?

      Addendums-Accomplishments-Achievements (11)

      INTRODUCTION

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      My mother attended Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia for two years, then married my father who was a student at Morehouse College. She never finished, but he did – graduating in 1929 with honors. My father’s mother, my grandmother, possessed a brilliant mind and was allowed to gain a high school diploma by her Caucasian kin folks. A noticeable feat in those days when very few Negroes could even read and figure. All three of them became school teachers. Needless to say, they all played a significant part in my life. Each of them taught me quotes and words of great writers and thinkers of which I apply to other great people, one in particular, President Barack Obama.

      From my mother, Longfellow:

      "Lives of great men all remind us

      We can make our lives sublime

      And, departing, leave behind us

      Footprints on the sands of time

      Footprints, that perhaps another.

      Sailing o’er life’s solemn main

      A forlorn and shipwrecked brother

      Seeing shall take heart again."

      From my grandmother, Edgar Guest:

      "Somebody said that it couldn’t be done

      But he with a chuckle replied

      That maybe it couldn’t, but he would be one

      Who wouldn’t say so till he tried.

      So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin

      On his face. If he worried he hid it.

      He started to sing as he tackled the thing

      That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

      Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you’ll never do that;

      At least no Black man ever has done it";

      But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,

      And the first we knew he’d begun it.

      With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,

      Without any doubting or quiddit

      He started to sing as he tackled the thing

      That couldn’t be done, and HE DID IT!"

      May I add - He shole did.

      My father – Ella W. Wilcox:

      "One ship drives east, another drives west,

      With the self same wind that blows.

      ’Tis the set of the sails

      And not the gales

      That tells us the way to go."

      Myself – William Cowper:

      "Fleecy locks and black complexion

      Cannot forfeit nature’s claim

      Skins may differ but affection

      Dwells in white and black the same."

      May I also add: His complexion was not ebony nor his hair nappy.

      AS AN INSPIRATION FOR AFRO/AMERICAN YOUTH

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      I quote myself again:

      SUPPOSES

      Little black children playing ring around the roses,

      I wonder what are your supposes?

      If you graduate from the University of Alabama,

      Do you suppose you could become another Barack Obama?

      If you finish Georgia Tech with joy,

      Could you become another Elijah McCoy?

      Suppose you finish Morehouse College and get your graduation ring,

      Would you become another Martin Luther King?

      Suppose you are from Washington, D.C.

      And you went to Tuskegee.

      Could you become another Washington

      Like George Carver and Booker T. Washington?

      Suppose you are from the city of the Kentucky Derby,

      Could you attend Paine college in Augusta

      And become another Frank Yerby?

      If you studied dramatics at the school of Yale,

      Could you become another Denzel (Washington)?

      How about studying at Tennessee State and not being a loafer.

      Suppose you could be another Oprah?

      Mississippi’s Congressman Bennie Thompson finished Tougaloo

      Could this, perhaps, in the future be you?

      There are thousands of things that you can be

      It’s all up to you and me.

      You to make up your mind

      And me to see that you don’t fall behind!

      What about me, the author, and why do I write? I have a meticulous, sensitive, demanding attitude about children and adult learning and reading. In some school districts, black children do not seem to do well in the reading categories.

      MINORITIES READING AND LEARNING

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