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Belva Davis
[Clapping]
>> Being a woman who is outside the main stream media, because we were living in a totally
segregated media market then. I just decided I want to be one of them, and it was an audacious
I want to be. So I was turned down for many interviews, I was told by a very esteemed
station manager that it wasn't the time they were hiring negresses yet but if they ever
did they would consider me.
There's a cliche line that I use; it was to broaden the focus of television news, it was
to give them access to people that heard about, maybe written a line or two about but didn't
know, didn't know how to approach them. They didn't know the inns and out on how to deal
with them to get the best information from them.
If we've lost anything it's that demand for proof of what you speak, that was the mantra
of my generation; 3 sources or don't put it on the air.
[natural sound speaking]
I had a spectacular career. I wrote a book of course, and it's about my life . It's because
I come from a different background than most journalists, like I said, no college and all
of that. I want to say to young people who aspire to anything that they look as maybe
as impossible; don't give up the dream without working it as hard as you can. Don't use excuses
of where you were born and who your mother was, what your neighborhood was - for not
excelling and not working hard.
That is why I am out here to say it can pay off and produce wonderful results. But it's
goning to take you, you to take a lot of responsibility for what happends to you.
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