Read this Like this.

Read this like this. Look in the mirror, blow me a kiss. Read this like this. Equations of you, think of me when you can. See this like this. Look in the water, wash away ya tears.

Months passed since Edward had a conversation with any of his friends. Some things never change, some times all it takes is one summer for people to change. Change can be a good thing but it can also breed conflict due to lack of understanding. The last day's of summer Edward spent his time carefully unpacking then placing souvenirs he acquired from his time at the Kennedy Nasa Space Center. Born and raised in Inglewood, a Junior in highschool he would often think to himself. "I'm from where I'm from and I only know one other person who's been to college. And that man's a damn contractor married to my sister! How could I ever become an astronaut?" Nevertheless Edward continued expressing his interest in astronomy and astrophysics. And school began again and with it new questions and gossip did the latest dance to the newest song down every hall into every class. "I heard Edwards momma smokin that crack rock and his ass think he's an alien" "I heard Edward was abducted by the government and they turned him into an illuminator for the illuminati."

"I heard Edward went to sleep high off pills watching the poltergeist and woke up screaming "They're ... Here!

There ... Here!" "What a fucking weirdo!" "What ya trying to go to space for!? Aint no black people in space."

Facts. In 1961, the Kennedy administration selected Edward Dwight as the first African American astronaut trainee, at the suggestion of the National Urban League's Whitney Young. His selection garnered international media attention, and Dwight appeared on the covers of news magazines such as Ebony, Jet, and Sepia. Dwight proceeded to Phase II of Aerospace Research Pilot School but was not selected by NASA to be an astronaut. He resigned from the Air Force in 1966, claiming, according to The Guardian, that "racial politics had forced him out of NASA and into the regular officer corps". The first African American Astronaut space walk was Bernard Anthony Harris Jr. in 1995.

And so this story goes, Edward didn't let those remarks define his destiny.

Read this like this. Look in the mirror, blow me a kiss. Read this like this. Equations of you, think of me when you can. See this like this. Look in the water, wash away ya tears.