Royce White

So it wasn't hard to figure that one.

But, you know, and the point I was making to him is you guys can keep the money.

And that really was the basis of like people say, why are you good for a public office?

Like, why would you be good in the U.S.

Senate?

Because I would never sell out.

I've already proven that.

There's not a United States senator that I could name who I think would turn down a quarter of a billion dollars or maybe more on principle alone.

In fact, the conventional wisdom in our American political culture is

take the money first then do the the moral and good thing later right and it's just like that's how the country got up so um as far as my plane anxiety goes i was just talking to somebody the other day and uh it was it's it's funny i kind of trace it back to when i was in fourth and fifth grade it's the first time that i ever really got on a plane to go to a national basketball tournament they used to have it down in orlando at the the disney complex every year

And I remember not liking it then, but again, I'm only eight, nine years old, so it wasn't that big of a deal.

But when I was in the sixth grade, 9-11 happened.

And my mom always tells a story of me taking 9-11 way different than my other cousins in the family and the other students in the class.

My teacher called home that day and I was very concerned, deeply disturbed by what was going on.

It wasn't just like, oh my God, planes are hitting buildings.

Oh, what's gonna happen?

It was like, no, something ain't right here.

This doesn't seem right.

And at a young age, I was already very, you know, into history and you could say politics.

And my mom was, you know, a single mother and she did a great job of putting a lot of books in my in my house, you know, as many books as she did toys.