Roy Wood Jr. talks about growing up with a father who was a civil rights journalist covering Soweto, Rhodesia, and Vietnam. His dad exposed him to Black literature and international reporting during MLK Month, shaping how he sees the world.
Oh, hello, hello and good evening and happy Martin luther the King Jr. Month to you.
Yes, happy, happy, happy. Absolutely. Let's not forget.
The Reverend Luther the King. Put it in, put it in any order. Much respect.
You know, he had to have had a dream that we would, we would love him and hear him enough that one day we could both stay on the path and laugh about it.
Yeah, yeah, that's, that's definitely a good thing. That's really interesting about your son and just the reading that you all, it makes me feel a little bit more normal about my upbringing. You know, my father was a civil rights journalist and covered everything from, you know, the South African riots way back in the day in Soweto to the Rhodesian civil war and civil rights in Vietnam and, and you best believe it was some black literature in my face. Yes, every damn day. And.
