My favorite columnist, Leonard Pitts Jr., comments this week on the Jeremy Lin phenomena in his piece “‘Lin-sanity’ offers lessons for young African Americans”:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/02/21/2653567/lin-sanity-offers-lessons-for.html
Read his column before my comment…
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“…the most admirable thing about him is neither his scoring nor his assists, but, rather, the fact that he refused to allow other people to define him. He knew he was capable of things they’d never expect or believe. And guess what?
So are you.”
His column and these words were directed to “young African-Americans”, and I understand why, but really, aren’t these words and his ideas in this column applicable to us all?
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