Good evening. I am not here because i am a north carolyn ann or an expert on the specific subject at hand and i am here because the heritage that the folks represent and the tradition that their hard work and guts will come in the wake of. I am here because the staples that i am ready to say were basic to this state and that heritage is basic to this wonderful work. And truly wonderful work that jay smith and mary had been doing on behalf of the institution that so many of us know and love. And so many of us have been fearful going through down without a peep. And names of course are frank porter graham. And terry sanford. And bill bradley. And all of whom believe a major point of an institution was not to serve itself but to serve the ideas within it. That it to say that there was not enough to go by the building that have you to salute what it meant. I got here because bill friday. We had worked together on the night Intercollegiate Athletics that was ran and financed. And i said. I
Months later theyre expected to take a test, reading in english. Full paragraphs, comprehension you know to me that is just not unfair. Thats downright abusive. What are you saying to kids who cant actually comprehend what is printed . Imagine if you had to go and take a test in vietnamese. Im sure that all of us would maybe except me would fail. Really exposing how the testmakers and the whole culture around testing has been able to steal the language of our Civil Rights Movement and say this is going to help end racism. No its the opposite. Its going to help entrench it. Thats why we really have to take a stand against and it expose it for what it is. [applause] final question. One theme in the book is the transformative nature of the experience of going through a boycott, that at garfield castlebridge issue around the country peopled find themselves and their communities and schools transformed by the process of this and dianne, know you speak everywhere and have a feel for the move
Programs for this weekend on the cspan networks. On cspan2s booktv saturday 10 00 p. M. Even would of afterwards, Grover Nordquist says americans are tired of ther is and is our tax system, and then susan butler on Franklin Roosevelt and joe stalin and their Unexpected Partnership behind in the war, and then on cspan3, on lectures in history university of virginias college of wise professor Jennifer Murray on how civil war veteranes reunions changed from the reconstruction era to the present and sunday afternoon at 1 00 American History tv is live from the appomattox courthouse come enemiating the confederate surrender and the end of the civil war. Up next a report on two decade of academic fraud at the university of North Carolina where studentathletes were given fake or paper classes to artificially boost their gpas. Good evening. I am not here because im a longtime North Carolinaan, im not here because im an expert on the specific subject at hand. Im here because of the heritage tha
Kidding. We were planning on doing that. And we saved their teacher and the black Student Union at garfield now is just won the citys human rights award for leading a march first marching to the precinct demanding that black lives matter and then a walk out the day after there was no indictment of Darren Wilson and theyre becoming leaders not just at the school but for the entire city in defining what black lives matter means. Think its all part of this growing struggle. I just want to say one last thing about the transformative nature of these struggles. I want to just end by reading a quick passage if i can. Theres a chapter in here you should not miss which is by a young woman named amber kudlow who went to a school here in new york state. She was the schools valedictorian and does she have the best grades in the highest test scores she was told by the principal she had to give the graduation speech for the school school. She said absolutely not, i dont have anything to say. Im not
But we certainly have heard from coaches, you know, espn, outside the lines, and locally we have heard from some coaches the last report they didnt know necessarily about what was happening behind the scenes in the academic support units, but we reported to them on a weekly basis from the academics unit for studentathletes. They had all the records. They helped with clearing athletes for tournaments like right now in march madness, before you go, to the tournament, you have to certify your students all over again. So youre constantly when youre in an academic support unit in athletics youre constantly looking at transcripts and letting the coach notes who is eligible, who is not who is sitting on the fence, where were Going Forward with all of that. Yes. Yes. Id like to thank you as well. Thank you. And i was wondering if you talked about Burgess Mcswain and wayne walden in their book and theyre involvement. We do. You hate to speak ill of the dead but but we do. Im sure when im dead l