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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (149280)	6/7/2017 12:08:03 PM
From: pcstel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

"I prefer a more metaphysical, "Good choice of parents." My life would be very different if I was born to a black janitor and maid in Mississippi, instead of to a doctor and nurse in Calif." Unfortunately, not all are so fortunate.... As I mentioned.. My father passed when I was age 4, and my mother worked two jobs so that she did not have to resort to public aid. My Grandparents were janitors/custodians at the local church. I worked the Corn and Watermelon Fields starting at Age 9.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (149280)	6/7/2017 1:39:50 PM
From: robert a belfer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

My life would be very different if I was born to a black janitor and maid in Mississippi, instead of to a doctor and nurse in Calif. That's right. You could have ended up on the Supreme Court. "Clarence Thomas was born in the tiny coastal town of Pin Point, Georgia, on June 23, 1948. As a very young boy he lived in a one-room shack with dirt floors and no plumbing. " http://www.notablebiographies.com/St-Tr/Thomas-Clarence.html