Patrice Lewis
This week, Star Parker had a lovely column entitled “What we can learn from Simone Biles.” Biles is a 19-year-old record-breaking gymnast whose jaw-dropping performances on the balance beam, vault, floor, and bars have been termed “gravity defying.” “Biles came into this world,” wrote Parker, “in circumstances most would conclude were hopeless: black, poor, fatherless, with a drug-addicted mother. Circumstances such as these point to a high likelihood that this child would expect a life of poverty.”
So what saved this extraordinarily talented young lady from following in her mother’s footsteps?
Quite simply, traditional values. A two-parent family. Church and faith. Hard work and dedication.
It was her grandparents who stepped in. By adopting Biles as a young child, they offered her and her sister the love, stability, marital unity, support and religious values she otherwise would have missed. Not incidentally, they homeschooled her as well – which not only increased the amount of time she could spend training, but also allowed to her bypass the liberal indoctrination of victimhood rampant in public schools these days.
Biles is a living testimony that victimhood in America exists only in one’s mind......Read more
Quite simply, traditional values. A two-parent family. Church and faith. Hard work and dedication.
It was her grandparents who stepped in. By adopting Biles as a young child, they offered her and her sister the love, stability, marital unity, support and religious values she otherwise would have missed. Not incidentally, they homeschooled her as well – which not only increased the amount of time she could spend training, but also allowed to her bypass the liberal indoctrination of victimhood rampant in public schools these days.
Biles is a living testimony that victimhood in America exists only in one’s mind......Read more
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