Royce White
speaker
1,550 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 19 Jan
Royce White’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like I was sat in the back room with the powers that be and told, hey, listen, you know, you want you think mental health is important.
We agree.
and you could be the spokesperson for mental health you could be anything you want to be you could be as big as you want to be we could help you but you got to play first and if you don't play who's going to listen well you don't you don't tell you don't tell a young black man who comes from a working-class blue-collar community uh you know if you don't sell out then then what good are you going to be to humanity because i just took that as a challenge and it's like okay
I told David Stern, the late David Stern, and he did a lot for the game, but I told him I'm going to outlive you.
And I did outlive him.
And now he was 70 plus years old and I was 20.
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.
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