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Charles M. Blow
@charlesmblow

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Visiting my mom in rural Louisiana, and she found the cards I passed out when running for freshman class president at @grambling1901 in 1988. I was poor. I had no money to finance a campaign. So, I went to my hometown bank, met with the bank president, and asked him for a political contribution. (The audacity, lol.) He was so proud that a hometown boy had such an aspiration that he gave me $200. I had as many of these cards printed as that money could buy, and every night I’d put on the only suit I owned, walk down the wall where the freshmen would gather, introduce myself to every person and give them a card. Some would make fun of my cheap polyester suit, but they admired my tenacity because I would come back every night. I also slipped them under every door in the freshman male dorms (our campus wasn’t coed so I couldn’t enter the female dorms), and I taped them inside every bathroom stall at the height a person’s face would be when sitting on the stool. I remember one guy yelling, “are you the dude I see when I’m trying to take a ****?!” Then he smiled and dapped me up. Of course, I won that race. It wasn’t even close. Lol. #gramfam