Mary Williams:
CLASS OF 2004
Pinellas Technical Education CenterClass of 2004
Clearwater, FL
Mary's Story
Mary's schools include Pinellas Technical Education Center.
Music Mary likes includes Aretha Franklin, En Vogue, Whitney Houston. Movies she likes include Avatar, Transformers, Legally Blonde 2. TV shows she likes include Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, CSI: Miami.
One of Mary's favorite quotes is:"I REFUSE
June 21, 2010
By Mary Williams
Numbers, percentage, figures
I Refuse
I refuse, for you, Uncle Sam
Tell me it’s because of the way I walk
I will be just another number
I refuse, for you
To tell me because of where I live
I will be just another figure
And I refuse, for you, Uncle Sam
Tell me it’s because of the way I wear my hair, sag my pants or speak my words
I will be just another percentage
A figure of failure
A percentage of poor
Or the number of neglected God’s children left at a front door
I Refuse
I refuse to sit back and accept the concept
“Poverty comes from the projects”
Neighborhoods built by the government, designed to target the black man and degrade our promising black women
I refuse
I refuse to believe the blame of economic downfalls of the predominated black neighborhoods is due to sale and use of illegal dru...Expand for more
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Drugs produced in laboratories ran by Uncle Sam
I refuse
I refuse to accept the illeratecyof our upcoming uneducated generationis because of the lack of discipline of enforced education at home
When the government prohibis where we choose what school our children receives their education and pull funding where minority over rules majority
I refuse
I refuse to lay down and take it and be told that’s how you make
I refuse
I refuse to be belittled and made to believe the same drug riten gang related prostitute neighborhood where I spent my childhood is all I will ever be
I refuse to be a figure of failure because I was pregnant at sixteen
I refuse to be a percentage of poor because I’m paid less due to the color of my skin
I refuse for my daughters to the number of neglected God’s children forgotten in the system
Forget the Civil Rights, I refuse and have taken my life back
So keep your Medicaid and foodstamps, no more government funding for me
Just so Uncle Sam can make an example out of me
I refuse
Like maya angelou said” I am a Phenomenal Woman.”
And as long as I REFUSE, my life will be much richer than what Uncle Sam choose it to be".
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