Yes! "Belated kudos & congrats!" Dr. Marshall.

Your homage to our ancestors, your tribute to your family, your recognition of the Church's role in creating and nurturing and pushing forward black excellence, and, finally, and obviously, your personal determination and stick-to-it-ness....well, I'm in love.

See, I know that you were mocked and demeaned by the other kids back in the day cause you stayed in the house and studied while they were outside playing ball or jumping rope or riding their bikes. Having "fun."

Later, in college and university, you sweated it out deep in the "stacks" of musty old libraries surrounded by musty old books....Why? Cause you love knowledge, love learning...because you knew that "someday" this day would come.