The retired businessman was raised in Watts and left after high school to get a political science degree from Williams and a JD from Stanford. He did well in school from a young age and credits his teachers for encouraging him.
“Black men are not a monolith. We are individuals uniquely and wonderfully made,” he says. “Some stereotypes are that we are angry, only marginally intelligent, and undisciplined. We live in a society that has perpetrated lies about us in order to exploit us.“have bachelors degrees“Readers should know that in each of the difficult communities across the country they read about, there are dozens and dozens of kids, even today, that will succeed,” says Otis.