Achieved success because they faster, thrown longer, if you can shoot better and rebound better, it means you are going to succeed. We should have the exact same attitude in the rest of our society. And when that happens can we make it the point that we breach preach all the time, we will see the inequality gap closing. , andook at average incomes you will must see these sub crime subprime loans. You will not see what you have seen and the home for closure crisis. It will take two generations to get just that money back. When we have that attitude about life, as we do about sports, then were going to see it. I would be remiss to his a we the exact same attitude when it comes to our sports teams for mayors out there building new arenas for owners and you want them to win championships. Would you should be saying when it comes to the education of our is food, whether it choice or education reform mo cowan want to make sure we had the same kind of access us. If you want to win a champions
Dont worry about the cameras. Aggressively ram yourself through those aisles and get a seat because its worth it for the lineup we have today. Hamdi, thank you so much for joining us. Youre a young man growing up in turkey. You came over here to study business and you said, aha, feta cheese. And were not even at the yogurt story. But you were going to make your fortune in feta cheese. I need to know why feta . Well, two things. One is, i came to learn english. I didnt know a word of english. And feta was a great english word. Actually, we dont call it feta, we call it white cheese. [laughter] the reason i came up with that idea is my father came to visit, and the cheese, the white cheese, is very big in our breakfast dishes. When i brought the cheese i couldnt find in the supermarkets my father said, is this it . I said yes. He said why dont you make some. I grew up in turkey, in cheesemaking, yogurtmaking. So basically my father not liking the cheese that i brought for him for breakfa
Sterling stood behind. And then where his words came out, it was so obvious and shocking and just disgusting. One. Hose things wrapped in the surprise of it, to find that type of sentiment and someone who relies on black americans for so much of his success and public profile is amazing. I just couldnt believe that someone who could have that much to retreat inside and think that it was ok. July 4 on cspan, a look at racism in sports. Later, exploring the red planet with mars probe engineers and senior nasa officials, beginning at 3 40. Later, discussions on gun rights and the personal recovery of former arizona congresswoman debbie giffords. Giffords. That is according to figures released today by the bureau of labor statistics. The president talked about the job numbers and the u. S. Economy at a visit to a tech startup hub in washington dc. This is an incubator for all sorts of tech startups. A lot of them focused on social change issues, on education, health care. We have a range o
Was august 15, 2005. Hired five people that kraft let go. And there was a bar across the street and people who were coming to that bar were bikers. I had only seen them on movies, and theyre scary. [laughter] and when i saw them they said, hamdi, come on over. If i had seen them before, i probably wouldnt buy it. But that was the first day. And those five people and me and, you know, i could not describe how scary it was and how lost i was, and everything that the attorney said, it was true at that moment. I did something really, really crazy and i didnt know what i was going to do next. So my first Board Meeting with , mike, e people, they rich, maria myself and mustafa and frank. They said, what are we going to do next . And the first thing that i recognized from the picture and when i went there the first time is the wall outside. It was white, maybe 15 years ago. No longer. It was horrible. And i said lets go to the ace store and lets grab some white paint and lets paint these wall
Rassoules. Hi, guys. Good morning. So today its my honor to welcome this great group of people. I want to get right to the conversation slowed to a lightning introduction of old in. Just about right is Christina Lewis halpern was the founder of a allstar code, nonprofit dedicated to closing opportunity gap between young men of color and the tech sector. Next we have taofeek rabiu, the senior technical manager at aol. He does products and key developer. Taofeek has been coding since he was 14. Last but not least we have nikolas rassoules who is a sophomore at pathways to Technology Early College High School in brooklyn. He is actually bit on the Robotics Team at his high school as a Software Developer and you just went to nationals this year, right . Awesome, cool. Thanks for being here. I would love to start with christina. Tell us of a bit the allstar code and what the program does and why you want to focus on young men . Sure. So allstar code is a prep program for the Tech Industry,