Policy Integrity Matters
For those who know me and still wonder why I really am the way that I am… I will tell you. When I grew up in Paschall in Southwest Philadelphia, a few blocks from the “projects”, my parents were leaders in the neighborhood church, community group, and home & school association. They were also leaders in the independent Black political movement citywide. It was the 1960’s and 1970’s. My family was part of a larger struggle for racial equality. That’s how I was raised. Fortunately, I had educational opportunities, procured by my parents, to attend elite public schools from the 5 th to 12 th grades – Masterman and Central… and then I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania the day before my 21 st birthday. I graduated from Penn, after having been threatened with expulsion in the second semester of my senior year and being brought up on student disciplinary charges in university court for my anti-apartheid activism (I organized a major sit-in in the University President’