We pride ourselves on yielding SUPPORT to those who need it – especially aspiring Student Athletes. So imagine our surprise when one of our academic/athletic middle school scholars approached us with short film reel that was recently shown on the big screen @ STUDIO MOVIE GRILL (Dallas, TX) at the Texas Black Film Festival last week. Not only did she create and co-write the less than 2-minute short, but she starred in it as well. Dequota has been a GORDON SPORTS Athlete for years, she’s an all Pre-AP Academic Honor Student and has been a Competition Cheerleader since the age of 8.
Hey! The children are our future and they are “researching their future” even more adamantly than we did. For instance, who knew what “THE CAUCUS” was when they were in middle school? You can boast all day that YOU KNEW — but the truth is Dequota’s short film was based off of FACTS. She was in line with her parents at the 2008 Caucus. As Dequota talked on her cell phone, she felt the onlooking pressure building – there were hundreds of adults in line just waiting for her to verbalize WHAT the Caucus is, (after all they’d been standing in line for hours upon hours to participate in – none sure WHAT it all meant). When Dequota concluded her call with “The Caucus…where you CAU-CUS at”… every adult within an earshot bursted out laughing at her conclusion and each one realized they were none the wiser.
Dequota knew she had to do something about this, so that her peers would not ever be on the spot like that when it’s their time to Caucus in the future – and out of that need, “THE CAUCUS” was born.
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The choice is yours. You can be whatever you want to be.
