Randall Kennedy
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And my parents paid attention to who my teachers were and how my teachers treated me.
And I think that they were affected by the way in which there were white people who really helped me and were on my side.
and were thoroughly on my side.
And I think that that experience changed my parents in their general view.
They, you know, skeptical, yeah, but they were, the possibility, the possibility of a white person
genuinely being the friend of a black person, that became alive to them.
And I give them a lot of credit because they were adults.
And for an adult to change, that's a big deal.
But my parents did change.
And, you know...
I mean, again, I said a moment ago how lucky I've been.
Heck, I teach at Harvard Law School.
I attended Balliol College, Oxford.
I got my law degree from Yale Law School.
I got my undergraduate degree at Princeton University.
Those are some pretty good schools.
They all were.
They all were.
The most important school, however, that I attended, the school that made the most difference in my education was my high school, St.
Albans School, St.