Jonathan Capehart
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373 appearances
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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 I freeze up.
Right.
Just don't tell me it's a life or death test.
I would do better on a pop quiz than I would on one of those standardized tests with the tiny ovals.
Right.
And so what that showed me was, of course, in hindsight, in retrospect, that they were gearing up to...
track me in a different way.
And when I got to high school, when I went to Raritan High School, they didn't put me in vocational ed classes, but they did my homeroom.
The place I went to every morning to start my day was in the shop.
And that was the place in school then that was known as the hangout and home of the kids not going to college, the burnouts, the troublemakers.
And I sat in this room.
All my friends were in other classrooms, homerooms with the desk that today you have to kind of squeeze in.
Can't believe we actually sat in these little desks.
And when the bell went off,
I ran out of that room as fast as I could to join my friends.
But yeah, that, and what's interesting, Mick, is when I read Michelle Obama's book, Becoming, when I read Valerie Jarrett's book, Finding My Voice,
To read the similar experiences that they went through with this same thing with people telling them, well, you're not going to college or you're not going to Princeton or you're not going to Harvard or you you won't be able to do that.
And I thought this I knew this happened.
But I didn't know that it's so widespread that a former first lady of the United States, former senior advisor to the president of the United States, went through the same thing.
So I didn't I didn't come up with that analogy until I left New York, until I came to Washington, because, you know, New Yorkers believe every word of that song, New York, New York.
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