1/5: So my friends and colleagues arranged for me to zoom with my old professor ⁦ @Yale⁩ I believe one of the first tenured African American full professors of basic medical sciences. The one with the baseball cap, now 85 born in the Deep South in 1934, went to @fisk1866

2/5: then @michiganstateu for his PhD and postdoc @RockefellerUniv maybe one of the first African American post docs there. His name is Prof. Curtis Patton he gave me my first job in science and taught me not only to be a scientist but to care about my colleagues and love them

3/5: we touched on many things today, but when we spoke about the insurrection, attack on the Capitol, Curtis spoke about the open display of racism and began to weep. We all followed, with the realization that as far as America has progressed, just scratch the surface...

4/5: There is still so much hard work to do. I’m embarrassed to say that until today the attack on the Capitol had a somewhat surreal or abstract quality about. Even the antisemitic elements. Curtis today brought it crashing down in a way only a person of greatness can.

5/5: Also made me think a bit about @Yale. I was an undergraduate there for 4 years, postdoc and faculty for 11 years. 15 years of my life in New Haven CT. I remembered today what Yale gave to me: A moral compass