The Beautiful Struggle Chapters 2-3 by Kathy Forni https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9 en-us 2022-11-06 20:55:38 UTC 2022-11-08 15:26:23 UTC hello@padlet.com Knowledge https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375119815 "quote quote quote" ]]> 2022-11-08 14:43:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375119815 Knowledge https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375123039 “Later I’d understand that the subaudible beat was the Knowledge, that it kept you ready, prepared for anyone to start swinging, to start shooting. Back then, I had no context, no great wall against the fear. I felt it but couldn’t say it.”
-Allison ]]> 2022-11-08 14:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375123039 "When crack hit Baltimore,civilization fell"-Corsha'e https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375123828 2022-11-08 14:45:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375123828 Bill's "Knowledge" yurivsingh https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375123981 "He listened selectively, and cared most about his own internal compass, which he believed was attuned to the way the world should work" (Coates 32).
-Yuri S.]]> 2022-11-08 14:45:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375123981 "But we died for sneakers stitched by serfs, coats that gave props to teams we didn't own, hats embroidered with names of confederate states". pg 30 https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375125584 - Emily]]> 2022-11-08 14:46:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375125584 "Saturday mornings, UpwardBound pulled Bill and a bevyof West Side kids up to thelocal community college toreinforce Pythagoras,Fitzgerald, and Newton.There was a freedom here—" https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375127269 Alex]]> 2022-11-08 14:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375127269 School caserobbins9 https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375127544 "three deep or deeper. There was a wrapped affection among them, the kind born from a common threat. They constantly looked around. They tossed ice grills like there was no other choice. They exchanged pounds" (37) -Case ]]> 2022-11-08 14:47:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375127544 Heroes https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375129023 “My father was Conscious Man. He stood a solid six feet, was handsome, mostly serious, rarely angry. Weekdays, he scooted out at six and drove an hour to the Mecca, where he guarded the books and curated the history in the exalted hall of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. He was modest brown slacks, pale yellow shirt, beige Clarks and hair cut by his own hand.” 
- Bryan (pg 14)]]> 2022-11-08 14:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375129023 "Beefs were petty and stemmed from casual crimes: bopping too hard down an alien street, spitting game at somebody's little sister"-Corsha'e https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375129276 2022-11-08 14:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375129276 https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375129534 “ But also there was the omnipresent feeling that It could go down”

-Tyler]]> 2022-11-08 14:48:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375129534 "Walking home from Lemmel, I couldn't shake free of my native dreamy state. I thought of everything and noticed almost almost nothing around me. I could of stumbled just out of the reach of an onrushing fender and felt only a light breeze. Still, I was smart enough to start walking home with friends". pg 42 - Amanda https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375129756 2022-11-08 14:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375129756 "She was not Conscious in the way of my father, but in a different way that i couldn't name but could spot one hundred feet away: the general manner of black people who simply wanted to compete and see the good works of their own brought forth" (pg 41). https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375130627 -Rulan]]> 2022-11-08 14:49:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375130627 Street Life https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375130853 “The most ordinary thing—the walk to school, a bike ride around the block, a trip to the supermarket—could just go wrong.” 
-Allison]]> 2022-11-08 14:49:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375130853 Ta-Nahesi's First Grasp at Consciousness yurivsingh https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375130894 "But none of it made sense. I was young and could not see the weaponry my ancestors had left for me, the shield in the tall brown grass, the ax lying right next to the tree" (Coates 41). 
-Yuri S.]]> 2022-11-08 14:49:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375130894 https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375132067 “The Knowledge was taught from our lives’ beginnings, whether we realized it or not. Street professors presided over invisible corner podiums, and the Knowledge was dispensed. ”

-Tyler]]> 2022-11-08 14:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375132067 https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375132702 Bill's logic was taken from the Great Knowledge, the sum experience of the ways from our time Plymouth Rock landed on us. (35) - Will]]> 2022-11-08 14:50:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375132702 Heroes https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375133524 "The world was filled with great causes- Mandela, Nicaragua, and the battle against Reagan" (pg 30) 
Floyd]]> 2022-11-08 14:50:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375133524 Teacher caserobbins9 https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375133882 "My math teacher was Ms.Chance, who seemed to love only her kids more than math" (41) -Case ]]> 2022-11-08 14:51:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375133882 Knowledge https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375134104 "From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain" (66)
- Megan]]> 2022-11-08 14:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375134104 Bill heard the admonishments of my father, but Dad couldn’t walk the path for him. We were divided—one foot inAmerica, the other in a land of swords. They told us to act civilized, but every where bordered on carnage. https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375135875 - Alex]]> 2022-11-08 14:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375135875 https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375137148 "My father was not a violent man” . -TJ]]> 2022-11-08 14:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375137148 Knowledge caserobbins9 https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375137439 "But what I was inspired to know, I learned. I read my social studies text like a great novel" (42) - Case ]]> 2022-11-08 14:53:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375137439 Street life https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375137773 "He stashed it in our bedroom, in his brown puff leather jacket. He showed it to me without bravado, its weight gave it authority, and I knew it was real. And from that point forward when walking the land, my brother Big Bill was strapped"(pg 28)
- Bryan ]]> 2022-11-08 14:53:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375137773 https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375138347 “Back at school, I marveled as my man Fruitie went from herb to culture hero.”
-Tyler]]> 2022-11-08 14:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375138347 yurivsingh https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375139018 "A rep was preventive medicine. If you were from one of the lucky slums that struck fear, you could walk where you pleased" (Coates 33). 
-Yuri S.]]> 2022-11-08 14:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375139018 "Dad generated a fear that was supernatural, but my mother was his earthly, overseeing manifestation. I was closer to my mother in those days, mostly because while Dad lectured from Olympus and could descend like a plague, she talked easily and discussed everything". pg 57 -Amanda https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375139612 2022-11-08 14:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375139612 "He was like all parents, urging for the grades that he believed matched my potential. But more so, he expected I'd leave Lemmel with knowledge, consciousness, and the sense to deploy each in it's appropriate place."(66) Riley https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375140975 2022-11-08 14:54:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375140975 Dylan to Consciousness https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375141596 "Dad heard poetry, but more than that and angle that confirmed what a latent part of him had already suspected. This war was bullshit". pg 72 
- Emily]]> 2022-11-08 14:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375141596 "Dad had seen more than just the streets by then, and at every station he noted the people who staked their lives on turning you to their ends". pg 66 -Amanda https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375143305 2022-11-08 14:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375143305 yurivsingh https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375143920 "Street professors presided over invisible corner podiums, and the Knowledge was dispensed" (Coates 36).]]> 2022-11-08 14:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375143920 Knowledge https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375145989 "but this was an inglorious turn. The word was filled with great causes--Mandela, Nicaragua, and the battle against Reagan. But we died for sneakers stitched by serfs, coats that gave props to teams we didn't own, hats embroidered with the names of Confederate states. I could feel the falling, all around" (30). -TJ

]]> 2022-11-08 14:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375145989 Street life https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375146914 "They told us to act civilized but everywhere bordered on carnage. To be strapped was to grab the steering wheel of our careening lives. A gun was a time machine and an anchor- it dictated events. To be strapped was to master yourself, to become more than a man whose life and death could simply be seized and hurled about" (page 35). 
Floyd]]> 2022-11-08 14:58:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375146914 "Among the Conscious, a man is only worth his latest reading". pg 90 https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375147557 - Emily]]> 2022-11-08 14:58:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375147557 "This was Bill's first taste of university, the first time that it occurred to him that higher ed may not be beyond him. But this new idea didn't exactly exert a radical influence on him". pg 31 -Amanda https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375148279 2022-11-08 14:58:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375148279 https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375148588 In the days when there were no other black quarterbacks, he loved Doug Williams, rooted for him in Tampa Bay. Then the winner of 1987, Williams, now with the Redskins, came hobbling off the bench in the Super Bowl and my father stood in front of the tv shaking his fist, yelling Go, Dougie, Go! Became the first brother to raise the Lombardi Trophy. Dad glowed, and Dad didn't even like the Redskins. (55) - Will]]> 2022-11-08 14:59:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kforni/4bxywn3c9rsajgf9/wish/2375148588