The Riots Are Part of the Plan

When I entered Cornell University in 1964, I could not have imagined that given the thousands of future doctors, lawyers, scholars, engineers, architects, and executives in my class, the person destined to have possibly the greatest influence on America's future would not be one of them. Instead, that role may have been achieved by a fellow member of Cornell's debate association, a tall, loudmouthed Brooklynite who proudly bore the cognomen Rick