Hi everybody this is Scott Sad. Some of you may have heard me mention the past the name

Steve Biko but you may not know who he is so a recent story happened that I thought I would

mention who he is and on the small world problem, how we are all connected in so few links.

So Steve Biko is someone that I first learned of in 1987 I believe so I was a young man I went to see a movie called

Cry Freedom which recounted the story of how Donald Woods, who became a friend of, he was a white

South African, became a friend of Steve Bico and Steve Bico was a anti-apartheid activist who was

developing the movement of black consciousness.

And I remember I'd seen the movie.

I was very, very inspired by Steve Bico.

I mean, yes, of course, because he was fighting against a very cruel regime

apartheid.

But because as you, if anybody who follows my work, I always implore people to be honey badgers and in

1987 here I was seeing this honey badger that became an exemplar of what it is to speak out knowing that things can go wrong for you.

As you may know, Steve Bico was eventually tortured and killed by the apartheid regime.

And the movie Cry Freedom recounts that story and I ended up

picking up shortly after seeing the movie a book called I write what I like

Which I reference by the way in the parasitic mine I write what I like I mean it can't be more simple than that, right?

You're not going to stop me from speaking my mind.

And so he struck me as someone who just had this incredible dignity,

poise, he knew who he was.

And then, you know, you move on in your life

and 35 plus years later, I want to show you something.

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