I find Essence Magazine fascinating in how they report firsts "The first Black person to make $1 million on Tuesday during the full moon" and why the qualifier is necessary when clearly they are not the first. Why can't we say, "Yay, X made $1 million dollars"? I did six months of research to check if I was the first because I could not believe it. There were deans of architecture, like at Howard and deans of Fine Arts, but not Design.
Even if you're not in fact the very first, you'll go through whatever pain it takes to break through once again after having been shut down so long that people forgot or never knew.
I find Essence Magazine fascinating in how they report firsts "The first Black person to make $1 million on Tuesday during the full moon" and why the qualifier is necessary when clearly they are not the first. Why can't we say, "Yay, X made $1 million dollars"? I did six months of research to check if I was the first because I could not believe it. There were deans of architecture, like at Howard and deans of Fine Arts, but not Design.
Even if you're not in fact the very first, you'll go through whatever pain it takes to break through once again after having been shut down so long that people forgot or never knew.
‘Nuff said