well, we were in Cub Scouts together and so so we grew up in his daughter is Holly Robinson, the actress is married to Ronnie pick the football player. And 12 years when he died. It was my first trip to Hollywood, I was asked to come and eulogize him. So it was my first trip to Hollywood. But there were so that there's there was six of us left there, three is still alive. And we formed the bond. But they were a year older than I was. And so as a consequence, when they graduated, they went on to college. I was left unaffiliated. If you don't grew up in an urban community, you know what that means? It means I have no protection going to school. That mean my whole social network was gone. And so I just turned 17. And I just and I wasn't very interested in studying in school anyway, I was only going to school because my buddies were there. But I was a straight A math student. So I didn't because I didn't have to study. So when, three, three months into my 17th birthday, I quit high school, and joined the Air Force. And it was really a blessing because suddenly I was thrown into a place. I thought and believed that black people were a majority until I went to Samson Air Force Base in New York. And found myself one of seven and a squadron of 80. But listen, listening to people with with German accents, Southern accents as a whole new world. Long story short, I was the military tested me he gave me a series of diagnostic tests. And I was selected for training to go into an elite airborne airborne electronics training school in Biloxi, Mississippi, one of eight people selected for this training. And I sold us my first exposure to the south, which of course, a Polish friend of mine, we're riding off the base to go in town to have a beer. And the cab driver took us outside of the base. He said I can take you for him, but not both of you. And that's how I got introduced to segregation. And it was really raw in Mississippi. But the long story short I But then, after my training, I went to Patrick Air Force Base, where obviously the space program, flying missile test control. And again, I faced discrimination, both inside the military and out. But there were always whites, who were fair minded, and became friends so that it prevented me from generalizing about everybody. And there were always friends and, and so a lot of things happen. But in the process, I realized that a lot of blacks are being disrespected, who didn't have any more education than I did. So after two years of doing things that young people do when they're in the military, I decided to go to school, and not completed my education. And then upon discharge. I was admitted. Thank God there was not affirmative action. That would have put me directly into the University of Pennsylvania, but instead I went to a small black college at Cheney, where I met with some sympathetic professors, and helped me to learn I read my first book cover to cover at 21 starting college, and I needed that kind of remedial attention. So I could build up study skills, and but in the process of getting my undergraduate degree, I worked in a juvenile jail. Working from four to 12. I went to school from nine until three and then work from four to 12 every night every day, but I worked on this unit. There were no programs 65 Kids blocked behind two doors. When Nope. programs, but they were the same kind of kids I grew up with. And so there were five of them, I would have adopted if I had the money to do so. And but I knew how to handle myself. And one day, I took them to an unsecured area of the prison and gave them a little party because I collect money from the other guards. And without prompting, when I came to clean up the place, all of them stood up and applauded me and I had been burning bush the experience without knowing what a burning bush was at the time. But I was just overcome with emotion. And I realized that math and science is not what I need to pursue that I need to serve young people like this. So I then earned a scholarship to the University of Penn School of Social Work, and began to work on behalf of low income people. Then I'm 25, I'm in the Civil Right, leading civil rights demonstrations in Westchester, Pennsylvania. Confronting racism, but I left the movement on the issue of forced busing for integration. I was against it. Because I think the opposite of segregation is desegregation, and not integration, integration as an individual matter. But that puts me at odds with the Civil Rights leadership. But also I left it when I we picketed outside of a pharmaceutical company. And when they desegregated they hired nine black PhD chemist, and we approached them to join the movement. They said, they got the job because they were qualified. And I realized that that as Dr. King said, What good does it do to have the right to eat in a restaurant of your choosing, or living in a neighborhood if you don't have the means to exercise that right. And the civil rights movement was not conscious of the need to help people who are poor. And I realized the civil rights movement was really driven by middle class people just pursuing black middle class interest. And then, of course, so I left the movement and worked on behalf of low income people of all races. And so but then I challenged the orthodoxy of the poverty programs. And I knew that the people today, who are the racial antagonists who are trying to divide this country are doing so because on the premise that the problems of the inner cities blacks are directly related to the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, that's patently untrue. Because what we have found in our studies, is that when whites were at their worst, blacks were at their best. And that's why we did 1776 shoe nights, because we documented the fact that when, under that, following slavery, that slavery, that there there are attempts to define America by his birth defect of slavery, and Jim Crow. America is a country of redemption, that none of us should be judged by the worse than what we used to be in the past. Amen. But there are my friend defined who's driving this race narrative who's dividing us apart, who's moving us away from Content of Character, to the to the condition of our skin. And they are there elements trying to divide us America's birth defect of slavery as a bludgeon against the values of our nation. There are two types of people driving this agenda. Delano Squires, one of my young colleagues said, is to hold the nation has been driven by guilty whites who are seeking absolution from crimes they never committed. And entitled, rich blacks are seeking seeking absolution from injustice as they never experienced. And so But and so there are two again, there are people who are driving this agenda who are ill informed, and those who are ill intentioned, as far as important for us to lead with agape love. That's why we did our book that's been downloaded 110,000 times by people all over the country, because we gave examples, that the present day situation with blacks has nothing to do with history of slavery and Jim Crow. Because, as I told you, between the 1930 and 1940, Black when we when racism was enshrined in law, blacks had the highest marriage rate of any group in society because of our Christian faith. I elderly was safe and our children were secure. But all of that changed. In the 60s, the 60s poverty programs that Attack. When government when the when the affairs of the poor have a Transfer From Institutions like the church, neighborhood and families, that authority was transferred to the federal government. And there was the poverty program spent $22 trillion on programs to aid the poor and 30. Only 70% of it went to those who served the poor. And they asked which problems are fundable, not which ones are solvable. So we created a commodity out of poor people in the Civil Rights leadership, when they transitioned from being civil rights leaders, to liberal democratic policy makers in the cities, and they were the ones spending the $22 trillion.