Episode 171: Dr. Richard A. Johnson, Texas Public Policy Foundation

Richard A. Johnson, Ed.D., is the director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Booker T. Washington Initiative which examines the effects of public policy on African-American communities.

Click here to read Dr. Johnson's complete bio.

In today’s episode, we discuss:

• Educating today's youth
• The importance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Thoughts on race
• Beating Hall of Famer David Robinson in a basketball game
• ... and much more!!!

  Resources, Books, and Links 

• Website: TexasPolicy.com
• Twitter: @TPPF
• Facebook: TexasPolicy
• Instagram: @TexasPolicy
• Linkedin: Linkedin.com/company/texas-public-policy-foundation
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TexasPPF

Articles of interest . . . 

• Juneteenth - A Pivotal Point in the History of Texas and America
• School Choice: The Civil Rights Movement of Our Time
• Lebron's I Promise School: Reimagining Student Support for Student Success
• Critical Race Theory Threatens What King Achieved
• Faith Leaders Needed in the Discussion on Police and Race

Past "Success is a Choice" podcast episodes of interest . . .

• Rachel Cruze (Ramsey Solutions and Best-Selling Author) - Episode 161
• Gary Sheffield, Jr. (Outkick.com) - Episode 159
• Andy "Grand" Mariner (Former TOPGUN Commander) - Episode 155
• Paul Biancardi (ESPN's National Recruiting Director) - Episode 151
• Clark Kellogg (CBS Basketball Analyst) - Episode 149
• Adrian Griffin (Toronto Raptors assistant basketball coach) - Episode 141
• Bill Curry (2x SEC Coach of the Year) - Episode 134
• Swen Nater (former NBA, ABA, and UCLA player) - Episode 128
• Kara Lawson (Duke women's basketball coach) - Episode 113
• JJ Birden (9 Year NFL Wide Receiver) - Episode 074
• Dwane Casey (2018 NBA Coach of the Year) - Episode 001

Booker T. Washington Quotes . . . 

• "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
• "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."
• "Character, not circumstances, makes the man."
• "Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
• “The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.”
• “Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity”
• “I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”

Dr. Johnson in Action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fYDcxM9jOI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Ji9WlV02M

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