bond julian 300On hearing the announcement that Julian Bond had passed on to the ancestors, I knew greatness had left us. The event gave me pause and I tried to remember when I first found myself in the sphere of influence of this great American leader. 


Remembering Julian Bond took me back to my college days. It was there I had t crossed his path and come into his political orbit. He was this great Black leader that my very white college invited to speak on campus as part of the "Program in Practical Political Education."

I was a freshmen, fresh off the bus from inner city Chicago and it's segregated neighborhoods and separate and unequal public schools. And now I was part of a group of 18 Black students, the largest number ever admitted to Grinnell College—the first wave of integration into PWIs (predominately white institutions).
On hearing the announcement that Julian Bond had passed on to the ancestors, I knew greatness had left us. The event gave me pause and I tried to remember when I first found myself in the sphere of influence of this great American leader. 

Remembering Julian Bond took me back to my college days. It was there I had t crossed his path and come into his political orbit. He was this great Black leader that my very white college invited to speak on campus as part of the "Program in Practical Political Education."

I was a freshmen, fresh off the bus from inner city Chicago and it's segregated neighborhoods and separate and unequal public schools. And now I was part of a group of 18 Black students, the largest number ever admitted to Grinnell College—the first wave of integration into PWIs (predominately white institutions).
Original Post: MONDAY, 31 AUGUST 2015 
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