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You positioned yourself as that person.

And the country positioned you as that person, whether you like it or not.

Growing up, I came up his name. I'm a Coblin Asian.

A Coblin Asian.

Caucasian, blue, black, Indian Asian.

The day before Thanksgiving in 1996, Caucasian, blue, black, Indian, Asian.

The day before Thanksgiving in 1996, a sports executive named Michael Shapiro was at home with his family in Atlanta when he got an unexpected phone call. It was a person who said that she was a recruiter from Nike and had gotten my resume somehow

and wanted to know if I was interested in a position with Nike.

Shapiro was already a top exec at Turner Broadcasting.

So a job at Nike definitely interested.

I said, yeah, sure, that sounds good.

She said, great, we need to get you out here right away.

And I said, okay, after Thanksgiving, and she said, no, when I mean right away, I mean today.

Within hours, Shapiro was on a private plane from Atlanta to Portland, Oregon, to interview for an unspecified position.

When he landed, a car whisked him to his hotel downtown, where he was approached in the lobby

by Phil Knight, as in Phil Knight, Nike's CEO and founder.

And he said, you can check in later, we need to get to a meeting.

And I said, can you tell me what this is all about? And he said, you can check in later. We need to get to a meeting. And I said, can you tell me what this is all about?

And he said, well, we're going to go to one of these, you know, conference rooms here in the hotel.

And we'll work it out when we get there.

So we go down this hallway and we go into a conference room and walk in.

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