Jessica Kinsey lights up when she talks about Florida A&M University.
There's "the Set," a see-and-be-seen area on the Tallahassee campus. There are the rolling hills, the football games, and the tingle the marching band sends down your spine.
In a few weeks, the slim, doe-eyed 18-year-old will join all of it. And in doing so, she'll add to a family legacy.
Kinsey's grandfathers were roommates at FAMU. Her mom and dad met in front of the campus post office. A gaggle of uncles and aunts also attended the school.
"I just feel like I belong there," said Kinsey, who graduated from Middleton High School in Tampa this year with a 4.4 grade point average and a Bright Futures scholarship.
Her mother and father wouldn't have it any other way.
"It brings a more positive light to our culture for her, you step onto that campus and you see, 'We are smart,' and 'Hey, we are going somewhere,' " said Deena Kinsey, 43, a 1987 FAMU graduate. "That's what I saw and that's what I want her to see going to FAMU."
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Good read.
ReplyDeleteI love it!! My wife and I met at FAMU and we sent both of our kids there. It has been a wonderful experience for our family.
ReplyDeleteThank you Kinsey Family.
YALL DON'T SEE MY FAMILY UP THERE!!!! I SEE YOU DEMETRIA, and JR!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWait...hold up...stop....That's definitely my family up there, but that story does not match. I don't know who Kinsey is but We the Wrights....Rattlernation need to get that together...lol but good story anyway....lol
ReplyDeleteGreat story and we kenw the GREATNESS OF FAMU before this story in the SHITTY st. pete times. They are just tryin to calm the coming storm over thier slanted reporting! I have not been snowed over with this....
ReplyDeleteThe white people were saying the same thing when they did not want to open up Alabama.
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