This is Super Open with JB Frank, a DC native, Harvard Graduate and co-host of the Atlanta based podcast 'A Pod Name Kickback'

In his words--"A lawyer friend of my dad’s came to the house one day and said… this looks like a smart young man, are you going to go to college? And I was like yeah, of course I am, and he said, well what school do you want to go to? Well, what’s the best one out there. And he said Harvard University, and I said ok well that’s where I’ll go to school.... that’s where I’m going. [how old were you?] 8 years old.

"White people are different from black people, black people are different from Latin people, and you have Latin people that are different from Latin people dependent on the country in which they were raised or where they’re from. All of those people have different cultural nuances that are a part of who they are and being open minded or being woke isn’t saying “well nobody has any differences anywhere”. That’s not really embracing diversity. Embracing diversity is learning how to recognize what those differences are, and understand what they are, and celebrate people for those differences."

"We would talk about WWI and WWII, what Hitler did, how Mussolini invented fascism, and what that was, and why it had the name fascism. We talked about the great circle between fascism and communism, where at the extreme ends they would circle down and meet at the middle. These were the discussions that I was having with my father growing up….. all my friends used to call my dad Mr Miyagi because he always had these incredible pearls of wisdom. Plus, he looks like a little Chinese man too."