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They don't know your battles.

The story of Major Taylor is an inspiring one, as well as a tragic one. Major Taylor was the

greatest cyclist of his generation, perhaps one of the greatest athletes to ever live. The only

problem is that he was born in 1878 and he was born black in America. This meant that although

he was able to fight his way to the top of his support, he would have to fight his way through brutal racism and unfairness in America. This meant that although he was able to fight his way to the top of his support,

he would have to fight his way through brutal racism and unfairness in order to do it.

The dual battles took their toll on Taylor. In the end, he lost not only his fame and his

fortune, but the family he loved too. He died alone, penniless, and estranged from his young

daughter, Sidney. As Michael Carnish writes, In the World, and estranged from his young daughter, Sidney.

As Michael Carnish writes in the world's fastest man, his fantastic book about Taylor,

for many years Sidney just thought her father had failed her, and naturally she was angry at him.

Sidney had been bitter, he writes, at what she interpreted as her father's rigidity and aloofness.

Only later, she said, did she truly understand the strains he had faced, the physical one

of racing for decades, and the mental one of battling racism?

The combination, she believed, had slowly killed him.

Sidney didn't know her father's battles.

Those battles weren't his fault, but his failure to talk

to her about them was. We all struggle. We all face unfairness. There has never been a parent or a human

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