Randall Kennedy

It's also true, Pop, that

The Vice President of the United States, as we speak, is a black woman.

As we speak, it's true that the Secretary of Defense... Now, Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Defense is the head of the Pentagon.

The Secretary of Defense knows where the button is, okay?

This is not a little, you know, this is not...

A small, out-of-the-way thing.

The Secretary of Defense is a black man.

There are a slew of black generals.

There have been black secretaries of state.

There are Black people who are the heads of police forces.

There are Black mayors.

There are Black people who are the heads of some of our foremost foundations.

The president-elect of Harvard University is a Black woman.

And we could go on and on and on and on.

This is not, you know, we're not, when I was growing up, when I was growing up, when I was, let's say, 10 years old, we got a magazine, Ebony Magazine, every month.

And in Ebony Magazine, you could turn to the middle of Ebony, and they would have black firsts.

The first black person to do this, the first black person to do this.

You could read Ebony, and frankly, I could tell you all of those, I knew their names.

Now, I read stuff, you know, the leading cadet, the chief cadet at the United States Naval Academy.

I'm reading, I'm reading, then I see a picture.