Ronald Fryers tale om raceulighed og uddannelse i USA

Hello everybody. Welcome and thank you a lot because you come to the University of London to hear about my speech on African-Americans in the US to you, the British students.

I will start to introduce myself. I am Ronald Fryer and I am 30 years old. My father was a maths teacher and my parents get a divorce when I was very young. When I was 15 years old I was hanging out with a gang and selling drugs on the side. I have lived a part of my life in crime. Several of my relatives went to prison. But I backed away from a life with crime and I have won a sports scholarship to the University of Texas. I found enjoyed studying and I was rather good at it. But in the time I was 25, the president of Harvard was hectoring me to join the faculty. Now I apply my supple mind to the touchy, tangled issue of racial inequality. I am obsessed with education, which I call “the civil-rights battleground of the 22st century”. I am prepared to test even the most taboo proposition. I have a collaborator with University of Chicago. For four months ago I won tenure as an economics professor at Harvard.