moving into your own spotlight
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Song: “Blippy Trance” by Kevin MacLeod from freepd.com, CC0 license
„Mom, can you buy me a tie and a white button-down shirt?” It was 1993, and Little Khadijah was in the 4th grade.
“Sure. I will pick them up tomorrow.” She replied.
“That’s it?” I thought. “No questions?” That was easier than I had expected.
One evening I sat on the phone with my grandad, a very tall, brown man with an afro of gray hair. He spent many years working in the factories for Ford Motor Company and rented out properties he had bought, building his wealth. On the weekends he mowed their well-kept lawn, fixed the plumbing, worked on his car and visited his grandchildren. My grandad took pride in being a “self-made man’s man”. Masculinity was everything to him. We are talking about a man who refused to sleep on flowered bedsheets.