{"id":313,"date":"2009-07-16T18:17:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T22:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/news_blogs\/john\/?p=313"},"modified":"2025-01-16T10:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:32:10","slug":"a-beautiful-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2009\/07\/16\/a-beautiful-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beautiful Moment!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-38706\" data-series-id=\"127\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 6 of 12 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/series\/harvard-business-school\/\">Harvard Business School<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>We live in &#8220;living groups&#8221; of eight people here at <strong>Harvard,<\/strong> which means we have eight bedrooms and a huge living\/meeting room\/kitchenette.\u00a0At breakfast today, one of my living group members told of a potentially life-changing moment that occurred 30 or so years ago.\u00a0I&#8217;ll call him Ben.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An Encounter with Racism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Ben is CEO of an almost US$10 million children and youth agency in Illinois. Ben is also Black. He told us that he never encountered racism in his life until after he graduated from college. When he was in his early twenties, his grandmother died and Ben had to drive from New York City to Atlanta by himself to attend her funeral. He put $100 in his sock and $25 in his pocket. That was his worldly wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He couldn&#8217;t afford to stay in a motel, so at 3:00 AM he pulled into a parking lot and went to sleep. At 4:15 he felt the car shaking and he woke up to see a shotgun barrel pointed at him on one side and a revolver on the other side. Two white policemen were yelling at him to get out of the car. He got out and they told him that he had been speeding. When he said he had been asleep since 3AM, one officer said, &#8220;Are you calling me a liar, boy?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben was so <strong>angry<\/strong> at the <strong>unfairness<\/strong> of this that he wanted to hit one of them. He thought if he was going to die, he should do what he could to go down fighting.&nbsp;But he held back.&nbsp;An officer said that if he gave them $50 they&#8217;d let him go with a ticket marked paid. He said he only had $25, so they made him empty all of his pockets.&nbsp;Seeing that&#8217;s all that he had, they took the $25 and issued him a speeding ticket for that amount. 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