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I was born at a time when black children were not allowed to attend public schools. i started my education in a coloured school. there were no high schools for black kids when my dad was a teenager and it took an intervention of law — lawyers coming in and enforcing supreme court rulings that ban that kind of racial segregation, and because it was mandated from the outside, you know, i got to get a high school degree, i got to go to college, i got to go to law school, but it didn't reflect real transformation in the society. we have had transformation over the last 40, 50 years. you see thin...

To college, i got to go to law school, but it didn't reflect real transformation in the society. we have had transformation over the last 40, 50 years. you see things that you wouldn't have imagined seeing. we even had an african—american president in 2008, so we have made a lot of progress, but the real challenge of reckoning with our history, reckoning with our past, learning from that past so that we actually eliminate bigotry and bias and discrimination, we're really in the early stages of that process. we overcame enslavement, we overcame terrorised lynching and violence, we've overcome...

President in 2008, so we have made a lot of progress, but the real challenge of reckoning with our history, reckoning with our past, learning from that past so that we actually eliminate bigotry and bias and discrimination, we're really in the early stages of that process. we overcame enslavement, we overcame terrorised lynching and violence, we've overcome to a certain extent legalised racial segregation and hierarchy. we're still dealing with over—incarceration. but this problem of genuinely reckoning with our history, honestly understanding how we have to correct and repair that damage, w...

We overcame enslavement, we overcame terrorised lynching and violence, we've overcome to a certain extent legalised racial segregation and hierarchy. we're still dealing with over—incarceration. but this problem of genuinely reckoning with our history, honestly understanding how we have to correct and repair that damage, we're just beginning to deal with that. well, i do want to talk at length about the coming to terms with history and truth telling, not least because there you sit in montgomery, alabama, which, as a southern city and the capital as it was of the confederacy for a time durin...

We even had an african—american president in 2008, so we have made a lot of progress, but the real challenge of reckoning with our history, reckoning with our past, learning from that past so that we actually eliminate bigotry and bias and discrimination, we're really in the early stages of that process. we overcame enslavement, we overcame terrorised lynching and violence, we've overcome to a certain extent legalised racial segregation and hierarchy. we're still dealing with over—incarceration. but this problem of genuinely reckoning with our history, honestly understanding how we have to...