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christian, i want to start with you, and ask, what does my brother s keeper mean to you? it simply means just having that brotherhood, the family aspect really. my high school was part of your initiative. right. and we were all brothers in that community. like, the teachers in my school were my play aunts and my play uncles. we didn t think of them as teachers. we really thought of them as family. and my brother s keeper is created a village out of my actual village of my home. i love that. jerron, you have the same experience? absolutely. just piggybacking off what christian said and what president obama said, my neighbor s child is my child. your brother is my brother. your sister is my sister. and you know, just looking after one another, what i have, you have. and just sharing the resources. you don t have mentorship doesn t have to be lateral. it can be horizontal. and doctor, how has my brother s keeper affected the student body in yonkers?
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yonkers dealing with this, dr. quezada? this is what my brother s keeper is all about. you know, during the demonstration, many of my students led demonstration in the city of yonkers. and every elected official and the superintendent were part of those demonstrations, because we wanted to show our young people that we were in this together. i think is what the president tries to do with his book, actually what he does with his book, which is telling us all that my brother s keeper is an opportunity to ensure that our young people realize that they do have a place in our society, whether to demonstration or getting an education. you know, president obama, the other thing about the skip gates incident is that it highlighted what black people, especially black professionals, have to go through in terms of navigating their way through the
neighbor s child is my child, that each of us has an obligation to give every child the same change in this country. president obama launched my brother s keeper in an effort to bridge the persistent opportunity gaps for young men of color. more than six years later, it s still going strong, proving to be a lasting legacy of the obama administration. and now, joining in the conversation, are people who benefited from and participated in president obama s seminal program. jerron hawkins and a howard university undergrad, a double bison, i m told, christian r. johnson, member of the class of 2024 at howard university and dr. edwin m. quezada, head of yonkers public school in new york, launching in 2016. welcome, all.