5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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0:00.0 | What did you have to do to kind of get started and then tell me again about some of the struggles, you know, that you had during that time? |
0:06.1 | Man, first let me say it was tough. |
0:08.9 | Okay. |
0:11.7 | It's always emotional when I talk about it. |
0:14.0 | So I don't want to cry or nothing. |
0:15.5 | And if I do, like, audience, please forget me. |
0:18.6 | But it was tough being the first black female to do it here um |
0:24.6 | because like um everyone else here was just they were already like positioned in their career |
0:30.3 | doing it they've been doing it for years and then you got this little black girl out of nowhere |
0:35.5 | talking about she's from the start of school and I'm a firm believer in |
0:39.2 | territories so it was like how am I going to do this on somebody else's territory there are the schools |
0:44.7 | here and who am I to just jump up and want to take their spot you know like you got to pay homage to |
0:49.5 | these people I believe that so it was a, rough area trying to fit into their game. |
0:57.1 | And you have to learn how to play by their rules. |
1:00.0 | So turning in the paperwork for the state was hard because, like I said, I don't have a college education. |
1:07.0 | I didn't know a lot of stuff. |
1:08.3 | So my application was rejected almost 22 times. |
1:12.8 | 22 times? |
1:14.0 | Yes. |
1:14.9 | It was sent back. |
1:15.8 | No, rejected. |
1:16.8 | Rejected. |
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