Ed Smith
Ed Smith
Played county cricket for Kent from 1996 to 2004 and Middlesex from 2005 to 2008. He also wrote the book Playing Hard Ball.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCricket Player
Date of Birth19 July 1977
CountryUnited States of America
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The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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A lot of people today look at Booker T. Washington as a Uncle Tom as a sell out to his community. That business tradition that you see celebrated today and BET and any number of successful black enterprises, it starts off with Booker T. Washington.
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There were some kind white people out there who provided a loan here or there, or a little bit of land. But Booker T. Washington and his followers knew that they were going to have to draw from their own resources and they knew that the larger white world was looking at them, every day, closely monitoring them.
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I think in terms of the specific aspects making Washington different than, say, Atlanta, or even Richmond or many other southern cities is the immediate post-civil war period. The fact that you create Howard University in 1867 just two years after the war ends. No other city that has a black community can claim a Howard.
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Ellington never graduated from high school, so when you speak about his success as a musician, his success as a businessman, his success as an organizer, the city was his tutor.
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Duke Ellington doesn't name himself. He's nicknamed by his friends because of the manner in which he dresses, the manner in which he presents himself. He embodies all of that aristocratic tradition that made Duke Ellington noticed as a member of some kind of aristocratic class.
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People reacted badly, largely because it didn't reflect where they are today. Maybe Mary was taking a concept that was lying around a while, or making a return to the roots of where she started out. Or maybe the market for the show isn't actually here, but on the mainland. So if you want to talk to a mainland audience, you give them a caricature they know.
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Vince Young is a hometown hero. He's an icon.
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We did a good job of executing on defense in the first half. But we missed scoring opportunities after turnovers.
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I was really happy our effort after a tough game yesterday against LaGrange. We came out with good energy and good intensity.
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It doesn't mean they will take it up then, but they could.
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We've done a much better job this year with our shooting. I felt like that was the biggest area of improvement we needed.