The True American

The True AmericanOnce Upon A Time, long, long ago, but not so far away, George Abraham Carver was born in a place called Georgia. The first time he lived, he didn't travel more than 150 miles from the shack in which he was born. For one thing, he was a marked child. In fact, for one, two and--some militants and maybe some sociologists would say--three things, he was a marked child: He was black.When he was 15, his parents died. A couple of years later, some bad men sold him some bad moonshine an...