Charles Woods:  

I was a native of Long Beach. I went to all the schools there. And after H.S. I went on to Adelphi University, from which I graduated with Dean's List Honors on a few occasions. I studied Social and Political Science; and was a 4.0 GPA student undergraduate in the Art Department, with a focus on Studio Sculpture as a highly appreciated non-Art Major, under the tutelage of internationally renowned Sculptor, Prof. Harvey Weiss; I also was an Actor with highest honors in the Drama Department, and was asked to take a role with the Acting Majors' graduating production in a Roslyn, NY Theater of "Street Car Named Desire." As my home (b. East Meadow, NY), by way of Louisiana of New Orleans and the country hamlets there of my parents, Long Beach was a great place to grow-up in, despite the ofttimes abject racist nature of the microcosmic, stratified ethnic American character of the city. Sadly, but indubitably, most leucoderm residents do not and did not want to face this latter point's sordid reality, but think of this: When I attended Central School, one of the "Readers" I had in 2nd or 3rd grade was "Little Black Sambo," which evinces my account of the abject racist nature, and depravity of maleficent social engineering to condition Black children to consent to an inferior status as humans and to inequitable treatment in our society; while White kids got a pseudo-superordinate sense of self, transmogrifying us both, with Black children having had to endure ...Expand for more