I Want a Crazy Dynamic Um

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The first thing I ever learned in the way of book knowledge was while working in this salt furnace Each salt packer had his barrels marked with a certain number. The number allotted to my stepfather was 18 At the close of each day's work the boss of the Packers would come around and put 18 on each of our barrels. After a while got to the point where I could make that figure Though I knew nothing about any other figures or letters So that's his first actual understanding of any written word With this letter the number 18 written on this thing and he's old enough To not know what that was like It's like you know, there's some things that you did your whole life where

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915)^[1] was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary black elite.^[2] Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.