The Importance of Affirmative Action

"I almost became a Buddhist, you know, I was thinking about all that stuff," he says. "So it's like what am I gonna do? And so then they were having affirmative action hiring for People of color,. 200 people are gonna hire one guy on the fire department." He hitchhike home from the Navy and got picked up in New Mexico by Mexican guys who frisked him but didn't stop to check out his gun. After getting into trouble with police at school after being caught smoking marijuana while driving an F-1 fighter jet through Afghanistan 'cause my mom wouldn't let me call her father' His life is filled with ups and downs - including two stints