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the idea is to create a place for them to safely and honestly share their struggles and successes, issues at home, in school or on the streets. president obama first joined a bam circle back in 2013. that s when he met high school students james adams, lazarus daniels and christian champagne. today in the same classroom they sat in eight years ago at the hyde park academy, a high school on the south side of chicago, mr. obama is catching up with them. james and lazarus are now 26. christian is 25. he says talking with the president back then was life-changing. it was so crazy. that first period that i went to the class, it was like, i m going to meet the president. that was the most inconceivable thing that you could possibly think of. then my heart was like racing, like when we were just sitting down and he just walked in. it was just like i m forever grateful, and it changed the
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structure of our economy and our communities. look, it used to be that a high school the average high school in america, the average public high school, you would have the banker s kid and the janitor s kid in the same school, and they d interact, and their parents would be both going to the same football game and would have to know each other. and if it turned out that there was a talented kid of a janitor who also happened to be on the football team, the banker president might say, hey, why don t you come work at the bank here because he knew that person. now we have more economic stratification and segregation. you combine that with racial stratification and the siloing of the media so you don t have just walter cronkite delivering the news, but you have 1,000 different venues. all that has contributed to that sense that we don t have anything in common. and so, so much of our work is
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daniels, and christian champagne. today, in the same classroom, they sat in eight years ago, at the hyde park academy, high school on the south side of chicago, mr. obama is catching up with them, again. james and lazerus are now 26. christian is 25. he says talking with the president, back then, was life-changing. it was so crazy. that first period that i went to class. it was like, i m fitting to meet the president on my lunch. like, that was the most in unconceivable thing that you could possibly think of. and then, like, my heart was, like, racing. like, when we was just sitting down, he just walked in. it was just like i m forever grateful. and it changed the trajectory of my life, dramatically. that meeting had a big impact on president obama, as well. one of the things that led him to launch an initiative called my brother s keeper. which he announced at the white house, 2014. christian, lazerus, and james were there. james, that was your first
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