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Working Women: Valerie Jarrett and the Importance of Mentorship

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson

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The Limitations of Race and Class

I think it has a lot to do with the limitations of race and class. There's no magic in these schools. You see excellence, but you also see mediocrity. I talk about affirmative action all the time. But some of it is a people's limited view, their own biases,. Their prejudice, their racism. And there 're a lot of people who don't, they've been told that a little black kid or a brown kid, or a working class kid is only supposed to achieve so much. That's, that's their limited view of the world.

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