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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Opening Audience Applause
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good Afternoon everyone\NUh so
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is kinda surreal sitting here \Nwith you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I should've worn my Howard University gear\Ntoo (laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ta-Nehisi and I have been friends for\Nabout 20 years and we worked on the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hilltop, Howard's school newspaper\Ntogether
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, I worked for that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(laughter)\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was his editor at one point\N(more laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um... You didn't start off wanting to be\Na journalist
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all knew Ta-Nehisi was going to be\Nspecial back when we were at Howard
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We knew he was going to a famous\Nwriter. He was amazing in his editorial
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,writing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody says that now\N(laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We said that then\N(more laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(laughter) says that now
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We said that then. There's proof.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you came to Howard wanting to be a \Nhistorian
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um and your father who runs Black\NClassic Press told you that there was the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,power of the pen, you should be a \Njournalist.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How did you make that switch because you\Nwere a history major?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was... I mean um, but the path uh to \Nactually becoming a historian is long
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's filled with a lot of school work\Num
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um... by the time I got to Howard,\Nmy path was pretty long
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was filled with uh many many bad\Nattempts at school work
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so it was fairly clear to me that\NI probably could not succeed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like I probably could not, ya know um \NI just didn't think I could make it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um journalism meanwhile had a\Nkind of immediacy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know one of the um attractions\Nto me for journalism was um...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The basics of journalism actually \Npretty simple. Um...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they have to be practiced over\Nand over and over and over and over
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and over and over and over and over\Nagain to actually get good at them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um, the problem with journalism \Nis not that it's-- it's a particularly
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Complicated, ya know thing to do\NIt's just that it takes a ton of practice
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get it right
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um and so, my process of learning\NI've always been much better um at,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,um learning by doing? As opposed to like\Nsitting back and for long periods
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having to observe. You know that's\Nalways been a problem for me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and journalism , you know you can't learn\Njournalism without actually doing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,journalism. And so yeah I did it\NI could actually, you know, um
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go out and pursue information\Nthe idea that I could go out and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pursue my curiosity...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,um and immediately like \Nsee the fruits of that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean I was just...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was tremendously attractive\Neven at a school newspaper you can do
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that, I mean you know in a way that like\Nwith history you can't really do it in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the same sort of way
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You had a whirlwind month,\Ntouring, all your accolades
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way the book has been received,\Nthe Genius Grant, um
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where are you in this moment,\Nhow have you been receiving the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reception and the accompanied criticisms?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well I..I um. because I think there's some\Npeople here they don't tell us their names
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I think there some people here\Nfrom the MacArthur Foundation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to make the correction\Nthat they don't like to have it called the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genius Grant. It's the MacArhur Fellowship\N(laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I stand corrected
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laughter
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am not a genius\NYou may address me as a genius however ,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that's not because of MacArthur\Nyou just can't associate with it MacArthur
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,um that's just cuz of me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Laughter
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um, you know it's actually-- to be frank\Nabout it, it's been stunning, I mean