Roy Wood Jr.

I was at FAMU and I'd stole some credit cards.

And I've used one of them on campus amongst other stuff or whatever.

And so you get caught for the crime and you're on probation for that.

But in addition to the crime, also you use the credit card on campus, little Negro.

So we don't need you to be on probation when you get back on campus as well.

So I'm on a campus version of probation in addition to regular federal probation.

So within the campus version of probation,

You can take your classes, but when you leave, when you're done with like essentially a FAMU, if you're on any type of behavior probation, you can go to class, you can go to the library, take your ass home.

no football games, no frat parties, no hanging on the set.

If you need to go buy something at the bookstore, cool, do that on the way to your car.

But take your ass home and get off this campus.

You're not welcome here other than for education.

And so with that pretext in mind, you were supposed to do an internship at the radio station, the campus radio station, as part of what my discipline for broadcast journalism was.

And...

At the time, I was not allowed to write for the campus paper for that semester.

I eventually got an exemption.

But at the time, in the time frame we're talking about, it was you got to go home.

And I go, well, what if I'm writing for the paper and I got to talk to my editor?

Well, if it's not for a class.

Well, no, it's not for a class, but it's for the experience so I can get the job.