“Six-deuce-87 Kitchen Crip gangster, yep. Your 2021 Teacher of the Year used to be in a gang,"Former Crip Wins Missouri's Teacher Of The Year Award

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:comeon: Why can’t he simply be teacher of the year? Why is everything pertaining to us prefaced by some crackhead parents type struggle first? You can be from a hood and not be active… Go ahead and fake celebrate for this mockery though.
To let all who don’t know that they too can turn their life around for the better. Without the support system that took him in, who knows where this breh would be. With help and self determination, he beat the odds :salute:
 

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“He taught me it’s OK to be tough, but at the same time, it’s OK to be compassionate,” Cockrell said. “He was like a father figure to me.”
When Cockrell was in 7th grade, his football coach adopted him, changing the trajectory of his life and his bleak outlook on the world.
“When I changed the way I looked at things, the things around me started to change,” he said. “I had a lot of struggles and a lot of hurdles, and if not for those educators, I would not be here today.”
This is why support systems are vital. It'd be great if the government would at least try at least make it worthwhile for those who take the risk to step in and do something for someone else.
 

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This is a real dope ass story. I'm all in for any black men to leave their destructive lifestyles and to change and live a productive life :mjgrin:
 

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"By growing up in dire conditions in North St. Louis, Cockrell explained that he thought he would die like many of his friends and that he was born to fail. “I was born to a drug-addicted mother who had two of her six kids by the age of 16, my father was murdered when I was four, and I began my journey in and out of the foster care system not long after my sixth birthday,” Cockrell recalled."


b-b-b-ut rap music :skip:

His moms was obviously a drill music fan, hence why she was having babies in the 8th grade. :gucci:


FOH with that dumb shyt. :camby:






























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