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- “I didn’t need ROTC. But I did it, and I did it good, because my dad was pretty much making me. He’s one of those dudes who feels like there’s no better opportunity for a black boy in this country than to join the army.”
- “Why does it automatically gotta be Rashad’s fault? Why do people think he was on drugs? That dude doesn’t do drugs. He’s ROTC, man. His dad would kick his ass.”
- “I didn’t need ROTC. But I did it, and I did it good, because my dad was pretty much making me. He’s one of those dudes who feels like there’s no better opportunity for a black boy in this country than to join the army.”
- I am Rashad Butler and I seen as a disciplined young man while in my ROTC uniform, but despite following the rules, I was still targeted and beaten by a white officer
- Slide: 2
- I am Rashad Butler I am a typical teenager that loves to chill, hang out with my friends, and draw. Even thought I follow the rules I was still victim of racial profiling.
- Really they were more like our masterpieces, because I was the one who gave him some of the concepts for where and how to write his tag.
- "they knew I didn’t want to resist.I really, really didn’t. I just wanted him to stop beating me. I just wanted to live."
- “Honestly, I just wanted to take it easy for the rest of the day. I didn’t want to hear Spoony preach about how hard it is to be black, or my father preach about how young people lack pride and integrity, making us easy targets.”
- Slide: 3
- “I wasn’t a stand-in for Dad. Nobody could be that. When the IED got him in Afghanistan, he became an instant saint in Springfield. I wasn’t him. I’d never be him. But I was still supposed to try. That was my role: the dutiful son, the All-American boy with an All-American fifteen-foot deadeye jump shot and an All-American 3.5 GPA.”
- “He wasn’t strong because he wasn’t afraid. No, he was strong because he kept doing it even though he was afraid.
- “You’re a good kid, Quinn,” she told me.
- I am Quinn Collins, I am athletic, academically successful, and upholding my family honor, especially in the shadow of my father’s heroic legacy.
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