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I really owe morris brown. morris brown made it possible for me to get my master's degree from tlafrt university and my eds degree in atlanta university. i will stay and teach until we got straight, and you don't have to pay me. so i'm fulfilling my word. i promise that i will stay until we got straight, and i'm going to do that. we will get straight. >> it's been 14 years. >> i want to retire. >> yeah? >> because i want to be -- i want to rent your boat you own. [ laughter ] i want to do that. but i'm going to stay until we get straight. you have some faculty members around here who sometimes...

>> until we support hbcus with our money and not just our mouths we're always in a precarious position. >> you know there is the entertainment industry, sports industry there is a lot of successful black business people now. we need some people who never went to hbcus saying hey maybe i didn't go to college but i want to support the community. >> not hating. i love dr. dra. love jimmy iv. >> we thought this was a great way to give back by building this academy. and it couldn't have been done a better place than a university of southern california. >> i mean look dr. dmt rea is extraordinary. t...

You for the real world. how would you respond to the fox news style questions. >> i think hbcuss are actually needed now more than ever, because the role of the school in my opinion in large part is to help us be prepared for a world that doesn't love us. that is going to be attacking us in some regards. and especially now. especially now where it feels -- you feel like a problem watching the news you feel like a problem. and i think i would probably take that as truth if i had not gone to a place where i know that, no i'm not a problem i'm excellent and i deserve to be in the places and space...

Look what happened. >> hi, welcome to the show. this is natasha martin. >> you didn't -- you didn't -- okay. well that's what we're doing. welcome back to the show. it's w. kamau bell. >> but it's really me. >> thank you. >> all right thank you. >> thank you. >> as i mentioned hbcus have historically been seen as conservative on lgbtq issues but spelman is changing all that starting in 2018 when any officially start accepting transgender students. i'm sitting down with sophmore chablis davis. the first recipient of a scholarship advocating for their community. that's a big deal to be in school...

>> doesn't sound crazy. >> okay. i was really tired of being the only one and always having to defend, you know, my hair, just everything. >> explain. >> spokesperson for the race. >> yes that was becoming a lot for me, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. a lot of people who are critical of hbcus, like why would they segregate themselves and go to hbcu, also if you do that you're not in the real world you created this black world and college is supposed to prepare you for the real world. how would you respond to the fox news style questions. >> i think hbcuss are actually needed now more than ever, because t...