Auribus Teneo Lupum

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The archway above the door of my daughter's new school says something in Latin about hard work and leadership but nothing about the tuition fee required to walk through it. The school is only new to us as it has stood without us or people that look like us for decades, and this is what my wife and I do with our hard work and leadership; a ransom we have secured, we grease the rails for our daughter. This is what you do when you are Black and at jobs where you suffer through being the minority, you send your daughter to the better school where she will suffer through being the minority. But they love us here. They love the shirt and tie I pick as armor to wear when I leave my daughter with them. They love locks that twist down my wife's back like taut rope they can point out to investors. Your family is adorable, would you mind posing for this picture, you know we are remaking the flyer, can we put you on the cover? Give us your daughter, she was too smart to stay wherever you came from. See the community we're building? See how we have tamed the wild dogs, I bet you haven't heard one bark since you got here. We can't guarantee they won't get hungry if you leave.