hey good day to you and welcome to this episode of watering the roots and i think we go out our room water and do it is human because my guess an african american male from the contra  let me have your opinion on the positive events today for van smith tell me if they were the same as it was yesterday what do you think well you know i hear that question and i have to take it in the context of we as black people and what is the difference that positive event was and that event was the demand for respect and the point of which we got that respect and today and as a businessman  when i go into meetings and a lot of times on the only black person at the table and but what i know that is that i get respect and in the position that i hold sometimes i know that you know that there may be surprised that it's a black person ever really holds this position but that never shows so it's like the racist even knows that they need to provide respect they don't have to like you they don't have to you know want really wanted want to do business with you but if they did hang really see where he's going to take you because cyberspace you think is a game well actually cyber trained international solution will be but one that we're not there and we have to have innovation in these we need innovation and typically we have not made an investment in innovation in this you go to the platform you buy your ticket you go to the platform you wait for scheduled train and that train is going to come at that time no matter if there's anybody at the platform that doors are open people going to get on it's going to take off and it's going to start and it's going to button and what in five minutes a vehicle comes and when their vehicle comes it's not a train it's more like a bus and so and when you get on that vehicle the people they get on the vehicle with twenty four thirty people  says as black people we have a high tolerance for stress we have overcome interim mountable challenges as a young black male growing up in the inner cities with a mother who had who never had vision i had to grow up quickly my father left when i was four and i became my mother's eyes to say i have a high tolerance for stress is an understatement but let me tell you this stress from an african american male perspective because that's something that you know we hear about and we don't stress which we just fall out of or go crazy so so tell me a little bit about it well i think you know as a black that's right and so you had to that was a lot of stress and forced to live through those times and also those things it inherently we learned how to amount of stress inflicted upon us and so i think even today as well as black people because of what we've gone through we have a high tolerance we have a high tolerance of stress  that that allows us to live longer and deal with it longer and not have a say in pakistan affect us so much that it really just you know eventually catches up   how your childhood was tell us a little bit about schott only because he came a while back and he talked about that now we're going to have him remind you about support our family i was the oldest of two boys so i had to grow very young my father left when i was four so i had become my mother's eyes for her so by the time i was five years ago i can tell you being a challenge african american male here in america well you know that that's a really tough question to answer because there's been different times i guess when i first left home ok the circumstances of me leaving home and moving away from home with my mother at seventeen when i was still in high school i left home and i school i had a job i had a car right i got me an apartment and i continued to go to high school and i still took care of specialize in working with companies to do business with the government right and it could be on any level it could be local state federal level and a lot of times i work on projects that are impacted by policy r i was i was hearing this tolerance that you were teaching others ago what we really need to see that you had this uniqueness of being able to tolerate things and you continue to go stress ok because my mother is about to leave the house without me ok and we're having a debate i'm seven years old about her leaving and letting me take  with with stress and we need to continue that and have that with our young people do you see the communication face today the way when we were growing up it's just fake being pushed today the way it was  less of them and you see where black communities are getting smaller and and shrinking so the black churches are shrinking you go to san francisco it's less of the african american and then all of a sudden sports came about and you still had to go to church but you made early service so you get to see the sports that afternoon that's correct but today is like sports six o'clock in the morning and so how how do when you read your wrap up here you know we've covered a lot about things that you've accomplished we talked about things that you're looking forward to do but there is one thing that you are doing that i think it is really significant is the basketball thing and enrichment give us a little get about forty more seconds tell us a little bit about what you're doing with the basketball at the y m c a dropped a bomb on well i've been coaching basketball for ten years you know i jack of all trades but master of one and that was his so he said i have tolerance hey this is been brought me best on this episode of watering the roots and i hope you come