Dear Editor,
I feel like I failed as a father to do a better job raising my children to work hard, get an education, a career and have a good relationship with God. I don’t understand how Mary McLeod Bethune, Educational Activist who lived over a 100 years ago was able to get an education and a career. And my children who were born in a much better time in history are struggling to get a career. My daughters are college graduates and working for pennies and don’t have a career.
I took my children out of the ghetto, but I wasn’t able to take the ghetto mentality out of them. They are comfortable working for pennies at a dead end jobs with no insurance and no room for promotion. I will not try to change them if they are happy with their current jobs. I am going to leave them alone. Recognizing the struggle Black children experienced in getting an education, particularly in the segregated South, Bethune became an educator and founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial Institute for Girls.
Sincerely,
Anthony Pantlitz
