Coming to Conclusions--and Feeling Dopey
If you had bought cheap watches or handbags from a kid on the streets of Athens in early 2000, you would have thought he was like all the dozens of others doing the same thing. He and is family would be working hard the rest of their lives. He was from a Nigerian immigrant family but born in Greece. The family worked at any jobs to try and make a living, and this watch-selling son picked up a basketball as a skinny teenager. He was tall enough, and so some people began to help him develop his skill. That skill in 2021 saw him make 50 points in the finals of the NBA for Milwaukee and be unanimously voted most valuable player--Giannis Antetokounmpo. When I was at Wilson, we got a boy in from Tahoka whose family was working at the gin. They had been in Tahoka for several weeks, and since he couldn't speak English, they put him in Special Ed to try and help. At Wilson it was the same thing for Juan. After several days special ed teacher Cres asked me to take J...