There's a battle playing out over who should control American universities.

We're going to bankrupt these universities.

In season one, we were guessing what was to come.

Now we know.

We want $500 million from Harvard.

It's season two of The Harvard Plan.

This time, it really is personal.

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What's good, listener? You are listening to Code Switch, and I am Gene Demby. All right, y'all. So story time, just go on this walk with me, okay? So when I was real young, I want to say like sixth grade, maybe. I went to the corner store on 25th Street called Irves with my mom's. And, you'd be going to Ers forever and Irv you know the owner of the spot will play this game with me where he would

try to test my math skills right he would go fake slow you know what I mean to try to see if I could

tally up the cost of everything we were buying that we put on the counter before he rang us up on

the register so you know he's going fake slow we're playing our little adding game you know what I'm saying at the counter

I beat him to the tally you know not the brag nothing you know I'm saying but when my mom goes to pay

she doesn't pull out dollars she pulls out food stamps and so I go my dumb ass I go are those food stamps I say that like go, my dumb ass, I go, are those food stamps?

I say that like a little too loudly.

And my mom shot me this look like, ugh.

She was embarrassed.

I embarrassed her in front of her.

Then I was embarrassed because I embarrassed her and then I realized I should have been

embarrassed.

And yeah, so she ain't talked to me on that walk back to the house.

So, yeah.

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