What would you say to people that would have those doubts about themselves

the way that I would? I totally understand that.

And admittedly, that was my own experience too before I signed up to be a big.

And from my personal experience, both as an individual and then working for the organization, I can tell you, number one, we make it as easy as possible for you.

We have three different programs, not just our community-based program, but we have our Mentor 2.0 program where that's curriculum-led and you have a few more prompts in place to help you get that relationship started.

Every single one of our matches has a match support specialist assigned to that match.

And that person has one-on-one conversations every month with our bigs to talk through how the relationship's going and help coach you through that.

So are you meeting with the kid like in person one hour a week? You taking them somewhere?

As you guys both grew in your careers and throughout society and your impact on society, what would you guys say? How has Atlanta, you know, basically the history of this city, how has that changed in creating a better a better today tomorrow?

Well, I came here.

in 1961.

And one of the first problems we took on was trying to develop a mass transit system.

And so we had to organize the whole metropolitan area to get people to vote for a one cent sales tax.

And if you put up one cent, the government would put up nine cents.

And so it was nine to one.

What was it like for you both to see Atlanta, as you said, Ambassador Young, really pull together and make it such a festivity of humanity? What was that like to take in this past

Wow

... 100 years next year in February.

We'll be celebrating our 100-year anniversary.

And we ignite the promise and potential of youth through one-to-one mentoring.

That's what we do.

Oldest no-fee-for-service organization doing that here in the country.

Um, what that means is we pair children with adult mentors, uh, through three different programs, and essentially it's quite easy.

How can they get involved, and what's the easiest way that folks can get involved with Big Brothers Big Sisters?

How would this agreement be viewed by the main player here, the CBH group?

I think these kind of asset-like supply chain models for grain are not, that's not unusual.

They're obviously operations in Albany and Esperance.

On the east coast, there's at least 11 of these, or eight, I think, of these particular operations successfully exporting grain.

The good thing about these kind of systems is that they're not a high-cost kind of structure.

They are able to turn up and turn down in terms of production and be responsive to production.

They're also largely catered for niche type or parcel based freight opportunities and marketing opportunities.

Why did you choose the Geraldton port as a starting point here when you're aware of the problems, the challenges, the surge issues, if we start there, for example? Why did you choose Geraldton?

maybe it's maybe not the same likeness, but I often think with the wild fishery in Scotland, do you feel on your side that taking ownership and the industry does a certification?

Yeah.

Oh, listen, it's so important.

You know, on the tuna side, You got to remember that there's really two main bluefin tuna fisheries around the world, right? There's the Pacific bluefin tuna, which is the largest part of that fisheries in Japan, and the largest market for bluefin in the world is in Japan.

So there's the Pacific bluefin, which is caught either in Japan uh wild caught but a very small percentage of it is wild caught in north american waters and then we have our own uh mexican bluefin operation but same species as as as is it is being farmed or wild caught in japan and then you have the atlantic bluefin which their migratory pattern is...

Again, the fish are very similar in terms of their scientific structure, but there are some differences.

And then you have the Atlantic bluefin, which is mostly caught in the Mediterranean area.

If you asked me, I would have said it was the only market.

I spoke with him earlier today, and asked him about Reverend Jackson's role in pushing for civil rights.

Well, Reverend Jackson was the second or third generation, but, uh, in a way, he, he, he follows best under the generation of students coming out of the, uh, the '60s and the sit-ins.

And, uh, he was a member of the group in North Carolina, uh, A&T, uh, Agriculture and Technical College, uh, that, uh, that, that started the sit-ins.

This was, uh, five years after Martin Luther King started the, uh, Montgomery bus boycott.

It was this background, uh, and the fact that he grew up in the Negro church, that, uh, prepared him for leadership.

His preaching and speaking was very much like that of Martin Luther King.

Uh, so much so that, um, he, uh, he often quiet- in the b- early days, uh, tried to imitate Martin Luther King.

What did his voice as a preacher allow him to do, allow him to say, that a traditional politician could not?

up.

And that didn't make sense.

That was being emotional.

And so we were keeping them in the church, and I was standing in the doorway, and Jesse came up and said, You've been out here since the march was over.

I said, Yeah.

He said, You look like you need some rest.

He said, If you don't mind, if you can trust me to hold this door, you can go get you a couple hours sleep.

Richard Hatcher.

Mm-hmm.

You, you ...

He, he needed to be in a bigger city than Montgomery, and, uh ...

but he couldn't afford to live in Atlanta except with his parents.

And so he was trying to raise funds.

He never had a million dollars a year to work with the entire time we had the movement going.

And so I was trying to help him raise some funds, and went to my church up here, the United Church of Christ, and, and asked them.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

And then one of the people I met answered the phone.

And I said, "I need you to help set, me set up a meeting with Dr.

King and the Episcopal bishop." And she said, "Well, I can't do that." She said, "I don't know Dr.

King, and I, and he's got a..." He said, "I tell you what," she said.

"Y- you come here, and I'll get you to see the bishop." So then I had to go see the bishop and explain to him that we about to move 50 more Black folk into your already 90,000 people, [laughs] and we intend to tear up your town.

We intend to boycott.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

You, you ...

H- He needed to be in a bigger city than Montgomery, and, uh, but he couldn't afford to live in Atlanta except with his parents.

And so w- he was trying to raise funds.

He never had a million dollars a year to work with the entire time we had the movement going.

And so I was trying to help him raise some funds, and went to my church up here, the United Church of Christ, and, and asked them.

They founded, uh, a number of colleges: Howard, and Tuske, uh, Talladega, Tougaloo-

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

And then one of the people I met answered the phone.

And I said, "I need you to help set, me set up a meeting with Dr.

King and the Episcopal bishop." And she said, "Well, I can't do that." She said, "I don't know Dr.

King, and I, and he's got a..." He said, I tell you what she said.

Y- "You come here, and I'll get you to see the bishop." So then I had to go see the bishop and explain to him that we bout to move f- 50 more Black folk into your already 90,000 people, [laughs] and we intend to tear up your town.

We intend to boycott.

King was shot?

Hmm.

Because th- their generations that fall into the categories of my children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and, uh, I'm very...

Well, I'm a preacher too, and as, as an old hymn, "My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' love and righteousness." And, um, I, I, I, I, um, I, I just hope and pray and believe that, um, this country is really too solid, uh, to bow down to Baal.

You mention coming up, uh, in an environment like this, coming up with what you just referenced, Nazi Party, the anxiety, the threats, uh, and so I, I'll warn you as a, as a speaker yourself, I got about two minutes here for you, but what do you say to people who look at this and do feel afraid or discouraged? What do you say based on y- your history, the, the courage of you and the people you worked with?

Well, that we've been here before.

And we've been here time and time again.

And Martin Luther King always said, "Truth crushed to earth will rise again.

And truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

(laughs)

And I said, "I've lived in New Orleans and Marion, Alabama, and Atlanta, and Thomasville, Georgia," but I- I said, "I really don't know Birmingham." He said, "Well, you got a couple of months to..." He said, "And you got about 30 days to meet someone." I said, "Why?" He said, "Well, if we're gonna have demonstrations there, somebody has got to go and sit down with the responsible leaders in the community and explain to them why we're having demonstrations." And so, I remembered that I'd been at a conference in Michigan, and there was a group there from, uh, the Episcopal Church.

And so-...

I just picked up the phone and called the Episcopal Church in Birmingham, and the lady who I had met at University of Michigan answered the phone.

She was the director of education, and I asked, told her who I was.

She remembered me, and I said, "I need you to help me get Dr.

King and your archbishop together." And she said, "Well, I don't know Dr.

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