Freedom Station Radio with Carl Westmoreland: September 30, 2008
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Today we broadcast an archived show in which Mr. Westmoreland interviews David Blight author, “A Slave No More: The Emancipation of John Washington and Wallace Turnage”.
During the second hour mr. Westmoreland discusses the tragic educational experience of a young man living on the islands of South Carolina.
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Kim Manning on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 at 8:00 am.
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Hello Pop,
I want to say thank you for taking Cody’s experience to Freedom Radio. Momma asked me to sit and listen to “Killing Cody” also. I hope you now understand that you are needed here in the Lowcountry. We know you will stand up for us and will always be there for us. But we need you here to help with the other children that are experiencing the same things Cody has.
Cody knows that you love him, just as much as Ms. Mack and Scoop. He knows you will be here for him if he needs you.
But what about the children who have parents that do not understand what is going on in the school system here. You have adults and children that have never left this island until they went to middle school or high school which you know is right on the next island. Some parents have children in the school system that do not understand what a Individual Education Plan is and what it means and their child is still not getting the help they are suppose to get in school. I believe this is why so many of our African American young men are not going to college after high school, they cannot make a high score on the SAT/ACT or their GPA is too low. All because they did not have someone to teach them what was needed and made sure that they understood what they were trying to teach them. And to just think Penn Center is the first school for freed Africans and that Robert Smalls started the education system here.
I wish there was a way you could interview the people here on St. Helena Island about education, racism, people selling their property and way of life here, so that people will know what kind of fight the children and folks here are still going through.
Thank you,
Missi