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Im mark, president and im proud to be here with professor eddie. I am honored, as we say back home this is really great. We have some time to talk and you have written a new book and we sorely want to talk about, we also want to talk about how fascinating it is to viewers and certainly too many how you got from mississippi, a a Great Community down in the gulf coast, all the way to princeton university. Maybe we ought to start with you talking about yourself. Guest im a country boy who made it big, thats what i like to say. My dad was the second africanamerican postman hired at the post office. That was a big job. We were living in moss point at the time and he moved us from one side of time to the other side. Where the third africanamerican family that moved into the nice neighborhood on the hill. We went to a better school, much more disciplined. It didnt have as many distractions. We went to an integrated school because it was ....
Fox officials he has no interest in selling the team. Meantime Players Union is calling for an immediate vote on the ownership issue. with complete coverage on the racist remarks and penalty paddles down in response. clippers to take on the warriors at 5 00 p. M. And the demonstration is planned against dolls sterling. The back hall all this plays out from the beginning and those controversial comments. First i regret is here with a reduction of the punishment. the comments and resulting discipline have really triggered nationwide conversation about race for nba and Kern Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson liaison between current nba players and commissioner for the past few days all a sudden this unfolded. And he spoke today in l. A. this is a very stark reminder that we still have a lot of work to do yes with an africanameri ....
The size of tb dinners, no seconds. By 9 00 every evening, i was hungry again and had to go to churchs chicken. By our senior year, dr. Glasser was glad to see the class of 1979 leave his school, but not without one more fight. Dr. Laster had invited a civil rights leader of National Stature to be our commencement beaker. We told him his choice was not acceptable. To us, the speaker was too mainstream, and i now realize i am out on a limb with john. So in 1979, our baccalaureate was louis farrakhan, and our Commencement Speaker was the leader of the revolutionary movement in zimbabwe. Me, the four years was transformational. I told you my freshman year gpa was 1. 8. By sophomore year, something had awakened within me. I found who i was here. I became comfortable in my own skin and proud of my own skin color. In the fall some master of my sophomore year, sitting in roo ....
Just put down political science. I spent freshman year here pretty much as i spent my high school years, asleep academically. My gpa my first year was 1. 8. 1. 8, both semesters. But something was stirring inside. I listened to the sermons and this beaches. On tuesdaysembly and chapel on thursdays. I realized i was in a special place, a kingdom. I became proud of who i was and what i was about to become. But for those of us who are freshmen here in 1975, something was missing. Did the energy, the ambition and the talent was here, but the great struggles of the civil rights movement, the marches, the siddons, the freedom rides, were largely over. Quite honestly rebels without a cause. We look for anything about which to protest or march. Eagerly accepted martys invitations to dr. Kings plan marches. The more frequent objects of our protest was food. The food in the 1970s was terrible. To those graduating today, i assure you it was worse then. We were served in green trays with five comp ....
Publicly, my colleagues approached me. The same colleagues that strode around as if they had worked at the white house from the beginning of time, and they told me some version of the same story. They had all gotten lost on their first trip to the oval. They had just not told anyone. When you get into the real world, is easy to believe that you, and only you, are the only one who does not belong. Even when you reach the pinnacle of your career, you will know your own weaknesses better than anyone. You will have unique insight into all that you have not yet mastered. Advocate, the human have referredst to our heads as batcave, where the doubts, bats, fly around. Although the bats do not ever really go away, you begin to realize that everyone has their own version of the batcave. The people who change the world are not those who slay the bats. They simply ignores their insecurities and forge ahead, unafraid to fall flat, but quietly determined to land and do right. That is what i have fo ....