Thanks to Olawale David Oyinlade [Akure's Lion]
Enjoy:

During a two-year period when
his family lived in Boston, he fell behind in his studies. By
the time he returned to elementary school in Detroit, he
was, according to his profile on the American Academy of
Achievement website, "considered the 'dummy' of the
class." It was a position for which he "had no competition,"
he related in his book Gifted Hands.
After Carson brought home a report card of failing grades,
his mother quickly limited her sons' television viewing and
required them to read two books a week. The boys then
had to give written reports to their mother on what they
read. While other children were outside playing, Sonya
Carson forced her boys to stay inside and read, an act for
which her friends criticized her, saying that her sons would
grow up to hate her. Carson later realized that because of
her own limited education, his mother often could not read
her sons' reports, and was moved by her efforts to
motivate them to a better life.
Before long, Carson moved from the bottom of the class to
the top. However, there was resentment from his
classmates at the predominantly white school. After
awarding Carson a certificate of achievement at the end of
his freshman year, a teacher berated his white classmates
for letting an African-American student outshine them
academically. In his high school years and later, Carson
faced racism in a number of situations, but as he said in his
1996 interview with the American Academy of Achievement,
"It's something that I haven't invested a great deal of
energy in. My mother used to say, 'If you walk into an
auditorium full of racist, bigoted people … you don't have a
problem, they have a problem."'
Despite his academic improvement, Carson still had a
violent temper. In his interview with the American Academy
of Achievement, he recalled trying to hit his mother over
the head with a hammer because of a disagreement over
what clothes he should wear.


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Olawale David Oyinlade (Blogger, Advocate, Young Positive Change Maker, Passionate
about Transparency & peace building in Africa, Writer, Founder of Change & Resolute All Youths CRAY)