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Spirituality vs. Social Justice
The first pillar addresses black
male geniuses and their relationship
to God as well as the balance of spiri
tuality and social justice that is often
found in their lives.
“What we notice among these
highly successful black men is that
they do not divorce themselves from
spirituahty,” James said. “Their work
Professional vs. Personal
The second pillar addresses the way that black
male geniuses conduct themselves in both their
professional and personal lives and how they
overlap.
“You can’t categorize and say, Wow
they are successful professionally, but /%,
personally they have no connection to
their family and community,’ and things
like that,” James said. “The have a synthesis
of the two.”
James mentions that many of these
men are not just fathers and mentors
to their own children, but to oth-
is an expression of some higher call
ing. Most see themselves as being
called by God to do the work that
they do and they don’t divorce spiri
tuality for issues on social justice.
James points out that many black
civil rights leaders were religious
leaders as well — Martin Luther
King Jr. being the obvious example.
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Artistic vs. Academic
The third pillar highlights the often-unique way
that black male geniuses think and express themselves.
“Many of these kids are just not smart academically
where you can measure their intellect in terms of
what they write and what degrees
that they have,” James said. “They
are also tremendous artists.” ■ 5„ ■
James said he resorted to poetry
to express his feelings of the recent
events in Ferguson.
“People expected me to write
some type of academic article,”
James said. “They were like,
‘Wow, we didn’t know
you could write like that.’
I just said ‘Yes, I can — Juq
when I am moved I can
write poetry.’” h "
Resilient vs. Reformers
The fourth pillar highlights how the challenges
that many black geniuses faced in their past pre
pare them for their future stations in leadership
roles.
“These individuals, in their lives you read
all these challenges that they’ve overcome
to be successful, but the crazy thing is
that it wasn’t just about them becom
ing successful,” James said. “They
also saw that because of their resil
ience, their ability to overcome the
challenges that they faced — they
also in turn became reformers.”
James said is it is primarily a
unique balance of individual and so
cial needs — a way of using their own
life story as a means to help others.
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Kinetic vs. Knowledge
The fifth pillar is one that James said is a type of
genius recognized in the athletic arena— the kinetic,
the prowess.
“Some say it’s natural — I for one know it’s de
velopmental,” James said. “They develop it, based
upon how they play, they develop it. Black men
don’t have any more giftedness genetically to be
anymore of a super athlete than other people,
they just put the time in.”
James said many young black athletes are lis-
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ety telling them
athletics is the
only way out.
“If someone
tells you that this your
only way up the social
ladder you put your
energy into that.”
James said. “They
have the ability, to be
kinetically gifted, but also quite knowl
edgeable.”
James hopes to continue working
with faculty and organizations in the
future to help to continue to mentor
students on campus to harness their
own genius.
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Jana Floyd — THE BATTALION
Kaitlyn Kellermeyer, who lost her
vision last year, advocates for wind
chimes on campus.
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projects that people already have either in
mind or have semi-developed and to make
them bigger, to help the students expand and
to challenge their ideas and make them grow
and make them stronger,” Kellermeyer said.
Jocie Padgen, co-chair of the American
delegates at Northwestern, said the goal of
the summit is to help cultivate the ideas of
students who are trying to make a social im
pact.
“Our mission is really to build the ca
pacity of the next generation of global so
cial change leaders,” Padgen said. “So we
provide them with tangible skills training
through our workshops during the summit,
we provide them with outcomes opportu
nities, with networking opportunities, with
leaders in these fields that they’re going into,
as well as kind of opportunities to just hear
people talk about the state of our society to
day and how we can really strive to make an
impact in the world around us.”
Kellermeyer said the summit will allow
her to be able to interact with the other
campuses to successfully bring her ideas to
life.
“It’s going to have all this information
that’s going to help me understand how to
reach odf td places'tllatTm not physically
present in,” Kellermeyer said. “I feel like it’s
easier here because Pnf actually interacting
with the people that I’m trying either con
vince or that I’m trying to work with. The
summit is going to give me the skills that I
need to reach out to places that I’m not go
ing to be present in.”
Another reason Kellermeyer is interested
in attending the summit is to ensure that the
wind chime solution implemented at Texas
A&M is the best possible solution.
“There’s some skepticism about the au
dio cue we’re using — the wind chimes —
because it’s not a perfect solution,” Keller
meyer said. “You know, I’ll be asked things
like, ‘Well what happens if the wind’s not
blowing, what happens if they get tangled
up?’ That’s actually something that this sum
mit will really help me address because it’s
something that we’ve been talking about
since the beginning and we’re hoping that
the wind chimes will be a segue to a more
permanent solution.”
While her time at A&M may be limited,
Kellermeyer said she is fully open to con
tinuing her work beyond her time in school.
“If I keep getting the sort of response I’m
getting from people here, just the enthusi
asm which has been so inspiring and uplift
ing for me, then absolutely I would love
to keep going and expand with it,” Keller
meyer said. “As long as people are on board
with it, I’m willing to put in the work and
the effort to make the change.”
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