Charles Blow

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1,316 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard 6 Feb

Charles Blow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Called me down to Grambling.

I was only 20 minutes away, but he called me.

I needed to come into the office.

White man.

And he says, I also had a scholarship from Louisiana Tech.

He says, LSU doesn't need you.

Louisiana Tech doesn't need you.

What he was saying, as I understood it, was they don't need to inflate their numbers with your account.

Where you are needed is among the rest of your peers that you are going to give to them, but you're going to receive from them by being in community.

It is an altruistic choice.

It is not the school with the most advantage for you.

He's not making an argument.

He was making an argument of sacrifice.

You need to come here because we need your intellectual power in this community.

I took him up on it.

In Grambling.

Yes, in Grambling.

And it was exactly what he said.

I gave, but I received because I was in community with my people and they gave.

I learned culturally things that I would never have learned

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