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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...

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...

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 ...

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 marche...

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 re...