asked people coming through how a colored man could get educated, and they told him about little stillman college a presbyterian school. he saved up and went to college. his first year went great. after the first year, they asked how he would pay for his second year. he said i'm out of cotton, and they said you're out of luck. they said, they want to be presbyterian ministers, and they have what's called a scholarship. my grandfather said, you know, that's what i wanted to be too. that's exactly what i had in mind. [laughter] my family has been presbyterian and college educated ever since. [laughter] they were very industry yows people and a little bit ingenious in getting education. >> the political politics and the party of lincoln, you can't say it stayed that way, but we're pretty much republican. >> we're pretty much republican. >> except for me. >> except for you. [laughter] >> there's no party that would accept me. >> well, in fact, my father was the republican for a totally instrumental reason at the beginning. he -- conny mentioned the horses themselves, and birmingham was the mo

i got a scholarship or at stillman. not even asking the parents. do you want your child to go to college. just sort of insisting. now, my father is very middle-class, church, this was an unpopular. one of the things i tell the story, my father a picnic for his kids. and, unfortunately, some of the kids were out teaching the church children how to shoot craps that a number of his elders and said raven, we told you they were ready for to be with us. but for our fathers, and when the class barriers when it came to making sure that kids are educated, the families are taken care of. but when the middle-class moved out, as we all did, the people who were left in that witches brew of poverty and race, are the most damaged in our community. and how we get that back now i think is one child at a time. now, i had tears. i had teachers. but i don't care if it is a teacher or a parent, if it is a community leader, a minister. every child has got to somehow have some adult that is advocating for the. >> and at the other end, institutions. >> that's what i'm goi

was a conservative republican presbyterian minister at and divided stokely carmichael to speak at stillmancollege in 1966 and 1967 much to the dismay of the power elite in tuscaloosa which thought stokely was going to start a riot. but i dad really was attracted in a funny way to the radical end of black politics. i try to understand why that is, because he was a conservative man. he loved the united states of america but i always felt a little bit of it was that he admired the pride. he admired the dignity with which these radicals confronted racism rather than taking it with the kind of sublimation and quietness. he was not her instance willing to march in 1962 and 1963. i remember hearing my parents talking in the living room and my father said you know they want us to go out there and be non-violent but if somebody comes after me with a billy club, meaning the police, i'm going to try to kill him and that my daughter is going to be an orphan. and so i think he was somehow attracted to people like stokely but i did say in the book when they talked about the radicals around than senator

mike stillman is joining me now from georgia tech. he is there in the studio.e. what is this robot all about? >> thank you very much, ali. the robot is called golden crane. it's a humanoid robot developed by georgia tech in collaboration with shunch and the robot has super human ability to think about the world and be able to help humans by thinking about it. >> tell me, give me the back story. how does it understand what people are thinking? >> it doesn't. it understands about its environment and own body so it can take advantage of these skills and be able to use them to help people. >> how would we use him? give me some examples. >> one thing that comes to mind is if you have a search-and-rescue situation, something like what happened in haiti, and it has to interact and go in there and take apart the environment and move rubble out of the way it can actually use its whole body in order to leverage the dynamics of its own system in order to be able to do this effectively and quickly. >> all right. so the issue here, tell me what the science is in making this