he lived, he was born in davenport, iowa, raised his entire life after that in aurora, illinois, a suburb of chicago, shortly after graduating high school in june of 1969, when your anniversary of robert f. kennedy's assassination, he fled to oregon. he heard there were hippies there. people were living free and open lifestyles. he wanted to escape some of the more rigid life that he had known and illinois. he was one of five sons in the shilts family born in a 25 year period in the family. they were broadly spread out. they were all active boys. all of them fled aurora the first opportunity that they could. when he finally got into the university of oregon after one year at portland community college he decided to run for student body president. he did so under the theme of come out for shilts. he did not win the election. when i say that to my contemporary students now they are like so what? in 1970 and 71 to be a openly gay student in college was a big thing. it made you stand out. and he stood out. he was well-known in campus for being outspoken, and eventually switched to a journalis

host: davenport, iowa, this is jack. caller: good morning. guest: good morning. caller: do you think african-american kids overinvest their time and effort in things like sports with these overpaid athletes? and the black music culture? and the same kids underinvest in things like the math insights culture or medical science culture, and that is a bigger part of the african-american lack of success? in other words, it is currently a values crisis. guest: i don't believe that the crisis is values. again, tulsa was not come out of a lack of values of african-americans. redlining was not because of a lack of values. neither was jim crow, enslavement, or the fact you were born to grandparents that dealt with those issues. i don't think it is a value space. i have seen studies that say african-american children invest too much in sports. i have african-american children, they do sports but they have plenty of white teammates, so i'm not sure where you are getting that analysis from. host: what aspect of the racial wealth gap have we not touched on in the segment that

. >> jack from davenport iowa. >> good morning.ink african-american kids invest their time and effort and things like sports with these overpaid athletes the black musicca culture and these same kids under invest in things like math and science or medical science culture and a bigger part of the african-american lack of success. in other words, is currently a values crisis. >> i don't believe crisis is valued. tolls wasn't, out of lack of values of african-americans redlining wasn't because of lack of values and neither was jim crow or enslavement or the fact that you are born to grandparents who dealt with the issue i don't think it's a value, i have seen studies were children invest too much in sports, i have african american children, they do sports book plenty of white teammates so i'm g not clear whe you get that analysis from. >> five minutes left, what aspect of the racial wealth gap haven't we touched on as much that you want to talk about? >> product earlier, joe biden said during his speech, we talk about tulsa a lot and

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