Then finally, when i was 25, i took my fathers name. Cspan where did you get the name skippy . Guest from the time i was born the day i was born, my uncle raymond called me skipper, and then it became skippy. We were piedmonts on the river piedmont, West Virginia, is on the Potomac River, two hours west of washington, so theres a whole marine mentality there, and so i became the skipper. Cspan before we go back and talk about the past, what are you doing now . Guest im the chairman of afroamerican studies at harvard and a professor of english. Cspan and how long have you been doing that . Guest this is the beginning of my fourth year. Cspan you write to your daughters in the beginning and you suggest that, eventually, after going through all the different names, they may get back someday to calling people of africanamerican descent or whatever colored. Do you really think so . Guest yeah, it could well be. I mean, Stranger Things have happened. You see, most people dont realize that we
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