![]() ![]() Politicians try to persuade us that they have the answers to the world’s problems if only we will enlist in their cause. Maybe she figured that suppressing the bad would get rid of the good, too.Īll of us are bombarded every day by people telling us what we should do and how we should think. But my mom rarely condemned me or my brother for the rebellious things we did when we were kids. And I did get in trouble, especially after she got back from meeting with the principal. That mouth of yours is going to get you in trouble, she said. When my mother heard what I’d done, she laughed. ![]() ![]() Finally, one day when I was talking too much to my friends, Miss Rood said, Gregory, do you have something to say to us all? I replied, Don’t call me Gregory, Wanda. I have always been Greg to my family and friends, and whenever Miss Rood called me Gregory to humiliate or intimidate me, I burned with anger. When I was in the third grade at Lake Bluff Elementary School just outside Milwaukee, my teacher, Wanda Rood, knew that I hated to be called by my full name, Gregory. I’ve always had a problem with authority. To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. ![]()
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