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It’s hard for a lot of people to accept it, now, I don’t accept CTE results. I don’t accept the brain damage that we’re finding. I don’t accept the fact that so many of these players can’t be diagnosed with CTE until it’s too late. – Getty Images	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s important that that’s taught. But what I think is not good is to scapegoat students based on skin color. what I find, even at a historically Black college, the vast majority of students have not really been exposed to much African American history and experience. – Reginald Ellis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The mistake on my part, being a freshman, I didn’t understand the importance of attaching appropriations, i didn’t understand what an unfunded mandate was and how difficult that would make it for school districts to incorporate it. – Rudolph Bradley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What I find, even at a historically Black college, the vast majority of students have not really been exposed to much African American history and experience, it is a law on the books. There is a task force. But, for the most part, it clearly isn’t a curriculum that is being enforced. School districts effectively have the option to opt-in or opt-out. – Reginald Ellis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The law is still a work in progress, but if we want to use it as a tool to divide then that is a total violation of the spirit of the law, when I passed that bill, it was designed to bring people together, not divide. – Rudolph Bradley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The idea that every Florida student learns African American history, it’s not reality, some districts don’t even realize it’s required instruction. – Bernadette Kelley-Brown	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There’s so much more history that’s inspiring that is interwoven in the American story as a whole, and that wasn’t highlighted then, and that needs to be happening now. – Carlton Owens	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am aware this happened for us, not to us, the reason that Bobbi Wilson is here, and we are not grieving, is because someone above wanted us to be a part of changing racism in our town … It is because we have Bobbi Wilson that we are able to stand here and do something about it, to speak up for ourselves. – Andrew Hurley/Yale Bobbi mother	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Dr. Ijeoma Opara, you have been a blessing, you are part of our testimonial and what it means to have a community of amazing, beautiful, Black, intelligent scientists and doctors, and more important than that is your heart and your passion for the work that you do. – Andrew Hurley/Yale Bobbi mother	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s the same reason we seek out films and television shows that produce emotional experiences – ‘I want to have a good cry,’ i think celebrity culture functions kind of similarly. – Gayle Stever	Found on CNN 1 year ago
(Celebrities’) stories, coming from humble beginnings to achieving greatness, become a way of affirming people’s faith in or hope that they can achieve similarly. – Sisco King	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s really difficult stuff that people experience every day – political divisiveness, concern about the future of the planet and the potential extinction of human life, so the idea that someone who’s famous could be really nice gives people a sense of hope. – Sisco King	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We can get kind of obsessed with particular celebrities because they are easier to get access to, that kind of intensifies that kind of parasocial relationship. – Sisco King	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Part of what has made her so beloved is that she’s adored by people of so many different walks of life. – Sisco King	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Often fans use a simple rule of thumb: does this person seem like someone I’d want to be friends with? – Jenna Drenten	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Those kinds of role models encourage people to be philanthropic and to care about others, i think this serves a huge cultural purpose … all of these people have accumulated a huge amount of positive social capital that inspires their fans to support the good works that these admired celebrities support. We need that. – Gayle Stever	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Connecting with the outside world is an impossible thing for a resident. – Ha Seung-hee	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Swan River estuary is good bull shark habitat and this means people can come into close contact with them, unfortunately some encounters end badly and in this case with tragic results. – Andrew Chin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re gonna take care of it. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It appeared to be a weather balloon – or so we thought. – Ashley McGowan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Me and my coworkers were shocked, it appeared to be a weather balloon – or so we thought. – Michael Alverson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They said to me, ‘Let’s wait till the safest place to do it,’. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The thermometer has reached levels that we’ve never seen until now. – Carolina Tohá	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are arranging support from various countries to face the emergency. We will not leave them alone. – Gabriel Boric	Found on CNN 1 year ago

It’s hard for a lot of people to accept it, now, I don’t accept CTE results. I don’t accept the brain damage that we’re finding. I don’t accept the fact that so many of these players can’t be diagnosed with CTE until it’s too late.

– Getty Images

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s important that that’s taught. But what I think is not good is to scapegoat students based on skin color. what I find, even at a historically Black college, the vast majority of students have not really been exposed to much African American history and experience.

– Reginald Ellis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The mistake on my part, being a freshman, I didn’t understand the importance of attaching appropriations, i didn’t understand what an unfunded mandate was and how difficult that would make it for school districts to incorporate it.

– Rudolph Bradley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What I find, even at a historically Black college, the vast majority of students have not really been exposed to much African American history and experience, it is a law on the books. There is a task force. But, for the most part, it clearly isn’t a curriculum that is being enforced. School districts effectively have the option to opt-in or opt-out.

– Reginald Ellis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The law is still a work in progress, but if we want to use it as a tool to divide then that is a total violation of the spirit of the law, when I passed that bill, it was designed to bring people together, not divide.

– Rudolph Bradley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The idea that every Florida student learns African American history, it’s not reality, some districts don’t even realize it’s required instruction.

– Bernadette Kelley-Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s so much more history that’s inspiring that is interwoven in the American story as a whole, and that wasn’t highlighted then, and that needs to be happening now.

– Carlton Owens

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am aware this happened for us, not to us, the reason that Bobbi Wilson is here, and we are not grieving, is because someone above wanted us to be a part of changing racism in our town … It is because we have Bobbi Wilson that we are able to stand here and do something about it, to speak up for ourselves.

– Andrew Hurley/Yale Bobbi mother

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Dr. Ijeoma Opara, you have been a blessing, you are part of our testimonial and what it means to have a community of amazing, beautiful, Black, intelligent scientists and doctors, and more important than that is your heart and your passion for the work that you do.

– Andrew Hurley/Yale Bobbi mother

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s the same reason we seek out films and television shows that produce emotional experiences – ‘I want to have a good cry,’ i think celebrity culture functions kind of similarly.

– Gayle Stever

Found on CNN
1 year ago

(Celebrities’) stories, coming from humble beginnings to achieving greatness, become a way of affirming people’s faith in or hope that they can achieve similarly.

– Sisco King

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s really difficult stuff that people experience every day – political divisiveness, concern about the future of the planet and the potential extinction of human life, so the idea that someone who’s famous could be really nice gives people a sense of hope.

– Sisco King

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We can get kind of obsessed with particular celebrities because they are easier to get access to, that kind of intensifies that kind of parasocial relationship.

– Sisco King

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Part of what has made her so beloved is that she’s adored by people of so many different walks of life.

– Sisco King

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Often fans use a simple rule of thumb: does this person seem like someone I’d want to be friends with?

– Jenna Drenten

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Those kinds of role models encourage people to be philanthropic and to care about others, i think this serves a huge cultural purpose … all of these people have accumulated a huge amount of positive social capital that inspires their fans to support the good works that these admired celebrities support. We need that.

– Gayle Stever

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Connecting with the outside world is an impossible thing for a resident.

– Ha Seung-hee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Swan River estuary is good bull shark habitat and this means people can come into close contact with them, unfortunately some encounters end badly and in this case with tragic results.

– Andrew Chin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re gonna take care of it.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It appeared to be a weather balloon – or so we thought.

– Ashley McGowan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Me and my coworkers were shocked, it appeared to be a weather balloon – or so we thought.

– Michael Alverson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They said to me, ‘Let’s wait till the safest place to do it,’.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The thermometer has reached levels that we’ve never seen until now.

– Carolina Tohá

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are arranging support from various countries to face the emergency. We will not leave them alone.

– Gabriel Boric

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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