{"product_id":"from-ebonics-to-author-robert-m-wade-9798218160524","title":"From Ebonics To Author","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis memoir follows my life on farms in Arkansas in the 1950s and 1960s, to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejoining the Gary Job Corps Center, in San Marcos, Texas, to a career in the military, to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeing a small business owner with the Army \u0026amp; Air Force Exchange Service on Fort Sam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHouston, Texas after retirement, to a second career with the Texas Child Protective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eServices. Having dropped out of high school at the end of my 10th-grade year, learning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto speak English properly was never a priority. I associated with the people who shared\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emy lot in life, the poorly educated. It was while stationed in Korea in 1971, I learned the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebrutal, truth that those of us who spoke Ebonics were deemed unintelligent. I was a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emember of the Company C, 728th MP Battalion basketball team playing in the Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echampionship game. It was the first game the Armed Forces Radio Network had ever\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebroadcast live in the command. I was the best player on the team, so I was the one the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8th U.S. Army post newspaper reporter\/radio announcer interviewed live pregame. I was\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eso na?e I thought the interview went well. A member of my unit recorded the interview\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand ask if I wanted to listen to it upon my return to the unit. I had never been so\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eembarrassed in my life. The interview by members of my basketball team, who listened\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto it, dubbed it the Ebonics (Hillbilly) interview of the century. After this interview, I made\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea pledge that even if I never learned to speak English properly, I would never embarrass\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emyself like that again. Dedication and leadership assignments throughout my\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emilitary career enabled me to keep that promise I made to myself all those years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough I have published several books since my children still say I sound\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecountry sometimes. They ask me why I have never written my memoir so the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egrandchildren can read for themselves what grandpa's life was like growing up in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esouth, and about the trials and tribulations I faced while in the Army and since my\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eretirement. This appealed to me because who can tell my story better than I can, and at\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe same time preserve the history of my experiences to pass along to my family and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efuture generations? This is my legacy, enjoy the read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert M. Wade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8218160523\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798218160524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hhpublishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.28d","brand":"Robert M. Wade","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44130293874943,"sku":"9798218160524","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_38d7a74a-f3e6-43be-89d5-8353cabacb42.jpg?v=1687468603","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-ebonics-to-author-robert-m-wade-9798218160524","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}