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George Collins’

Inspiring Life

and Legacy

by Satchel Harper Collins

he bond shared between very situations.
a granddaughter and her
Tgrandfather has been a My grandfather
continual weaving tapestry of just recently turned
love and wisdom transcending eighty-eight years
generations. It is impossible to old. His life and
describe the love and patience experiences are
that goes into this bond. In not only inspiring,
the innocence of youth, a but they also have significance
granddaughter can find endless within my family and give even
wonder and inspiration in a pool more reason why he is the most
of people, but from the minute incredible paragon that I have ever
she is born, curiosity finds itself had the pleasure of knowing, let
looking to the radiant beacon of alone sharing a bloodline with. My
light that can only come from her grandfather was born and raised
grandfather. in Virginia. From the year he was
born in 1936 to the moment he said
In this particular case, the bond farewell to the state in 1955, he was
between me and my grandfather, continuously discriminated against
George Collins, is stronger than as an African American.
expressed. My grandfather is who
I strive to be like every day; his His childhood was one of
kindness, strength, optimism, and segregation, inequality, and the will experience in their entire lives;
remarkable bravery are inspiring incessant instant judgment of his but throughout my seventeen years
on so many levels. The person that character based on the color of of listening to every story he has
he is and the love that he exudes in his skin. He, just like every other ever told, I have never once heard
the world are constant reminders person of color, was failed by his him say anything negative about
that you will never have the luxury state due to the social custom of the nineteen years that Virginia
of determining the exact situations discrimination that afflicted his was his home. He has always
you may find yourself in, only the time. The pain that he faced at my shown nothing but gratitude for
control of how you react to those age alone is more than most people where he was raised.

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