Jonathan Capehart
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373 appearances
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2 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 9 Apr
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Mick Unplugged · Jonathan Capehart: Lessons in Truth, Connection, and Self-Belief · 14 Aug 2025
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And this book is filling in all those holes, especially for those folks who think, oh, you think you know me?
Oh, get ready.
Did you know I pumped gas for two summers at a Sunoco station in Wildwood, New Jersey?
Did you know I got so jammed up in a job that I had to, you know, quickly figure out a departure?
I mean, I have been through some things, and you need to know this, but I want to share this because...
no matter who you are, I am certain that I have written something here that you have either gone through or are going through or might go through or know someone who's...
I guess I view myself in service in a lot of ways.
And if I've learned this lesson, I feel duty bound to share.
Here's what I learned.
Here are my observations.
And so if you find yourself in this situation, here's how I went through it.
And see how what I did and what I thought and what I went through matches or not what you're going through.
And maybe it can help.
Well, shoot, society labels us, meaning African-Americans and certainly Black men and boys, before we even had a chance to even know who we are.
So, you know, we moved from Newark, predominantly Black city, to North Plainfield, New Jersey, and then Hazlitt, New Jersey, where I went, where I became the only one
In a classroom.
And my mother, being a daughter of the Jim Crow South, came up north.
She said to me on the first day of school in North Plainfield and then in Hazlitt, she said to me, listen.
You are not taking vocational education.
They will push us into those.
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