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Steve Case
Co-Founder, America Online
More than a decade ago we started investing in what we called parental controls, because we felt it was really important that kids had access to the Internet, but it's equally important that parents had some control over what they accessed. And rather than we deciding sort of on our own what was or wasn't appropriate for a particular child, we thought it was important to put those tools in the hands of each parent and let them decide. And some would be very strict and some would be very lenient, but ultimately we felt it was important for parents to decide.
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Steve Case
Co-Founder, America Online
We felt it was important, in a world where access was becoming more and more critical, that we not have a digital divide between the haves and the have-nots. So we created several initiatives, and even personally through our Case Foundation, created something called "Power Up," and built 1,000 technology centers, mostly in Boys and Girls Clubs, but also in YMCAs, churches and other places, to really provide access to computers and Internet in low income neighborhoods and housing projects, so that people -- when they went to school and some homework was assigned that required the use of the computer -- the kids who couldn't afford a computer at home could still participate and wouldn't be left behind.
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Johnnetta Cole
Past President of Spelman College
A woman comes up to me (I'm in the Atlanta Airport) and she says, "I saw you yesterday, how are you?" And I said, "Well, it's nice to see you, but I don't think we met yesterday." "Oh, yes, we did," said she. "You were at the Cherokee Country Club." I said, "Oh, I can assure you, I wasn't at the Cherokee Country Club." She said, "Now come on, I saw you yesterday." At which point I said, "You know, I have a very dear friend -- a Spelman graduate -- whose name is Veronica Biggins. Each of us is tall, each of has a sort of long face, graying hair. You probably saw Veronica Biggins. In fact, I think she may belong to that club." "Oh no," said the person. "I saw you. You were the woman who waited on our table." Now, what do you do with that? You could scream at her, you can get your adrenaline all up, or you can really say, "How sad, that your only image of an African-American woman is someone who waits on you." Rather than spending my energy that way, I'd rather spend my energy helping young folk -- look like me, usually thinner, no gray hair -- helping those young women to go on, to prepare themselves, not to wait tables, but to figure out ultimately the real cure for AIDS. Or to find, perhaps equally significant, why it is that this disease called racism persists.
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