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24: Al Talks with one of his Heroes, Harlem Children's Zone Founder Geoffrey Canada

The Al Franken Podcast

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Are You African American Raising a Child?

For generations, people were raising their kids differently. The way you got a job was by being quiet, subservient, listening, questioning nobody. Times have changed. You need kids who can have that set of skills. These generations upon generations upon generations, there is a legacy. Men were acknowledging the four hundredth anniversary of slavery in this country and the unbelievable cruelty and savagery of slavery. And so this is difeterational. There's no science tat is ow. But i'm going to say this, i think there's a reason, if you were african american in my mother's time, right? My mother's 90. I'm 67."

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