There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard.
Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else.
And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
I went into the seminary when I was 16.
I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.
