
Episode 1376 - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Affirmative Action - I'm the First African-American Male
Yale grad is the first African-American male to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. He says affirmative action opened up historically white universities so that people like him could fairly compete. "It's one of the greatest honors of my life to be honored by the place where I started"
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