Because of short interest span, I post this add on to Robs Literacy cartoon on Monday:

Last night a young man by the name of Damon Dunn was interviewed. He is a black man who is running for CA, Sec. of State.

He told of how he grew up very poor, one of ten siblings, who lived in a three bedroom, run-down trailer. He had only his mother, because his father had died when he was three.

He was asked how he survived the streets and all that entailed. Without a hint of pause, he said - I owe it all to my mother's love and her "high expectations of me.

As I had said in my posts on that toon - "love can overcome obstacles".

But the most important thing he said was that his mother had "high expectations" for him. Maybe that is where we, as a community, have failed the youth of today.

Where you don't expect much - you get less.