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This one goes out to Loretta's Mom
Last edited Sat Nov 8, 2014, 08:21 PM - Edit history (1)
Michael Daly has written a wonderful article about Lorretta Lynch's background (hat tip to my friend @AlanMandel). You should go read the whole thing.
But I got all verklempt when I read this:
Her mother, Lorine Lynch, started life as a farmhand. Loretta Lynch recalled aloud at the swearing-in ceremony for her first stint as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in 1999 that she once asked her mother why she had labored in the fields.
“So you wouldn’t have to,” her mother had told her.
As Loretta enters into the national spotlight, I want to give a shout-out to her Mother, Lorine. That kind of sacrifice doesn't just mean that your daughter didn't have to labor in the fields. Millions of black women and girls all over the country will see the world of possibilities just a little bit differently after today.
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"The mother had left the fields to become a librarian and her love of literature passed on to her three children. Neighbors in Durham would marvel at the stacks of books little Loretta and her brothers would carry from the public library just down the street."
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Loretta’s uncommon brightness led to an early encounter with what some took to be racism when she took a standardized test at her largely white public school.
“She scored so high they said, ‘This is wrong, you have to retake it,’” the father recalls. “She retook it and scored higher the second time.”
When Loretta was not yet in high school, the family took a trip to Boston and her parents pointed across the Charles River to Harvard University. The father recalls, “She said, ‘That’s where I want to go to college.’”
Fascinating experiences.. wonderful history of PBO's nominee for AG, she.. Thank you!
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Loretta’s uncommon brightness led to an early encounter with what some took to be racism when she took a standardized test at her largely white public school.
“She scored so high they said, ‘This is wrong, you have to retake it,’” the father recalls. “She retook it and scored higher the second time.”
When Loretta was not yet in high school, the family took a trip to Boston and her parents pointed across the Charles River to Harvard University. The father recalls, “She said, ‘That’s where I want to go to college.’”
Fascinating experiences.. wonderful history of PBO's nominee for AG, she.. Thank you!
