the texas tribune this, it s disturbing that our senior citizens who have relish and embraced voting by may are now having to jump through some hoops, and it s upsetting when we have to send a rejection letter when we can see they ve voted for us. former president trump, he was in arizona over the weekend for his first rally of the year. he spent a lot of time repeating his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. then we have this fake election, this horrible, disgraceful election and by the way, a person that comes here and we re all together. a person that comes here and has crowds that go further than any eye can see, there s nobody who can see the end of this route, and has cars that stretch out
would tell the story on juneteenth, and that was in february that we had the discussion. so up until juneteenth, there was planning going on, and emory decided that they would do something to make amends. i was offered several things, and one was an honorary degree from emory university medical school. it all got started by someone getting an honorary degree, so i decided i did not want them to give me an honorary degree. then they went on to say they would issue a letter of apology, which you read. mm-hmm. which was a good gesture. yeah. and i thought the most important thing was they were going to tell the story. so we had a lot of conversations about what had transpired since that rejection letter, how i got to the point of going to
and one was honorary degree from emory university medical school. it all got started by somebody getting an honorary degree, so i decided i did not want them to give me an honorary degree. and then they went on to say they would issue a letter of apology which you read, which was a good gesture. and i thought the most important thing was they were going to tell the story. and so we had a lot of conversations about what had transpired since that rejection letter, how i got to the point of going to college, coming from where i came from in georgia. let me ask you this. it goes to what you were saying. you experienced racism at loyola university and then when you were seeing patients. where do you think we are in the
probably more. now you are retired and you meet socially with friends and you tell these stories about your lives, and you share this rejection letter from emory. tell me what happened next. the gentlemen asked me for a copy of the letter to show to their children and their grandchildren. and one of them had it in his briefcase. he went to starbucks on cascade in atlanta, and he dropped his briefcase. by the way, he used to be in charge of finance at emory university, and he had had a stroke, and he could not pick up the papers. so a young man picked up the papers for him. when he was picking up the paper, he read the letter and took a picture of it. and from the picture, he put it on the internet. that was about three years ago.