8/22/2021: Race in the Ranks, Geldingadalir, Kindred in the Bleachers
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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On this week's "60 Minutes." David Martin reports on the new efforts being put forth to address inequality in the military, this time under the watch of the country’s first Black secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin. Renowned sportswriter Dave Kindred has covered the biggest moments and brightest stars in sports for more than half a century, but now he tells Jon Wertheim he has found his most fulfilling work: writing about girls high school hoops in central Illinois. And a new volcano has erupted into existence in Iceland. Bill Whitaker reports on the mesmerizing scenes.
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| 0:36.7 | It doesn't change as you climb the ladder. |
| 0:40.6 | There are always going to be people because of what you look like that will question your qualifications. |
| 0:47.3 | Lloyd Austin climbed every rung in the Army, starting at West Point and rising all the way to four-star general, |
| 0:55.8 | many times breaking barriers as the first African-American ever to hold the job. I would go someplace with my staff and we were |
| 1:01.7 | wearing civilian clothes. Somebody would come out to meet the general, and I wasn't the guy that they |
| 1:07.7 | walked up to. |
| 1:18.4 | We watched as a huge stream of lava slithered down a new path into the valley. |
| 1:23.9 | When we went to take a closer look, we couldn't believe our ears. |
| 1:30.3 | It sounded like broken glass. It was a molten lava fall. We're about 10 feet away. I'm not sure I can get much closer. Yeah, I'm not sure I can |
| 1:37.3 | get much closer than this. It's about 10 feet away, it burns your face. |
| 1:49.8 | Dave Kindred is among the best ever to write about sport in America, and he's covered them all. |
| 1:50.9 | Ali, Tiger, Martina, and Michael. |
| 1:54.3 | Then, after 50 years, he decided to repair to the bleachers, and, how's this for a headline, |
| 2:00.8 | cover Girls' High school hoops. |
| 2:03.9 | You know, I love seeing them play, and why should they be ignored in high school athletics? |
| 2:10.9 | And plus, they don't pout. They don't bitch. |
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