December 4, 2020 • 29 mins
Billy Moore and his special guest (Any Body Can Youth Foundation Alumni and Director of Education) LeMar Slater discuss how groups like ABC fill the gap to help student, teachers and parents teach their kids how to step off into life with their best foot forward without cowardice but with courage and dignity.
Instructor Moore talks prevention, literacy and goals.
We can all help, just being aware and willing to help are the first steps to making the changes we want to see happen.
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Dwayne E. Shigg (00:10):
Any Body Can Youth Foundation teaches our
youth to step off into life withtheir best foot forward without
cowardice, but with courage anddignity. ABC was founded by
legendary Light HeavyweightChampion Archie Moore in 1957.
He had a heart and passion forhelping the youth. He believed
if we went into the business ofprevention, we could save
billions of dollars and millionsof lives. He started ABC to
(00:32):
teach us the basic ABCs of life.
Are you concerned about theworld today? Do you want to help
train our youth to be the changeneeded in the world? Join us in
the fight for equality in thefight for justice in the fight
for our youth. If you would liketo help, go to
www.ABCyouthfoundation.org.
That'swww.abcyouthfoundation.org. Be
(00:56):
well and be blessed.
Billy Moore (01:03):
Good morning. Good morning. Welcome. Welcome.
Welcome to in the ring withBilly Moore was our guest, Mr.
Lamar, Mr. sleater. Lamar is anoriginal ABC boy. And he's been
(01:25):
with ABC since he was what whatis it Mr. Eight years old, about
eight years old, and eight yearsold. And the more introduce
yourself and give them a littlebackground about you.
LeMar Slater (01:37):
Oh, I'm so happy to be here. My name is Lamar
Slater. I'm a part of ABC sinceI was a young youth. Growing up
in San Diego my mother saw fitto bring me down to the rain.
And I was able to come aroundABC and learn from the great
instructor Billy Moore and hisfather.
Billy Moore (02:00):
Or that's a that's a very, that's very unique, that
you had a chance to be aroundthe mongoose for a while. In the
end to come on in. And you and Iwound up working together? You
want to come it up? Under histoday, Jen is both of
(02:23):
opportunities. That's a that'spretty good combination as a
month.
LeMar Slater (02:28):
Yeah.
Billy Moore (02:30):
What uh, what do you remember? as what you know,
I made to this thing where Ireally want to see our kids. ABC
is a prevention program. We wantto catch our youth as early as
seven years old. And teach themthe do's and don'ts of society.
(02:55):
before they get of the I like touse the word contamination, the
contamination age, where we upwhere we start, nibbling and
dabbling with some troubles. Butwhat do they ABC do for you, you
feel
LeMar Slater (03:13):
as a youngster, I can remember coming down to the
old bud, Jim, right there indowntown and coming into there
and seeing everybody working outand get a chance to put the
gloves on myself. It gave me asense of pride, like I was part
of a team. And then I remembergetting into the ring and lining
(03:36):
up to do the concert. Goingthrough those simple basic do's
and don'ts, things you shouldand should not do. And to me, I
think it just grounded me and itgave me something to latch on to
and to know that there's asimple roadmap to follow in
life. So that's something that Ithat I hung on to and was able
(03:58):
to go through high school. Somewould say a troubled high school
but are still clear from anykind of obstacles, actually
graduated with honors and evenstepped into leadership
graduated as our school. ASBpresident. Mm hmm. So there it
was off to Morehouse. 3000 milesaway from home. But I went away
(04:25):
to college, knowing that I havesomething behind me some
foundation, and some just asense of who I was and what I
was going after. And that was myeducation. And so I graduated
and I came back to get that,
Billy Moore (04:42):
right. Yes, you did. Yes, you did. Well let them
know what high school you wentto.
LeMar Slater (04:46):
I'm a proud graduate of Samuel Gompers
secondary school right here inSan Diego. We were a California
distinguished school back in1993 and 94 when I graduated,
and today, the School is stillaround, and it's charter school,
but it's doing some some amazingwork in the kids to college for
(05:07):
her.
Billy Moore (05:08):
Cuz Let me ask you a question here. I don't want to
put you on the hot seat. Butyou're an educator. So maybe the
hot seat might be all right. Butwe're having a problem that a
(05:30):
number of kids have been passedfrom grade to grade. They can't
even read. How do we, I wastalking to actually, Amy Moran,
who's one of our board membersand a retired top educator. Her
(05:51):
and I were talking about thisyesterday. And she said
something that really, really,really made me feel good. She
was talking about Biden andKamala, Kamala Harris. And she
said, Well, you know, Biden isan educator. And she said, they
(06:12):
will and not knocking Trump notknocking anybody. But she said
that they will revamp oureducational system and take it
to another level. But back towhat I asked you what, what's
your take about these kidsthat's being passed through?
(06:32):
Can't read? How does thathappen?
LeMar Slater (06:35):
You know, it's the sad thing that happens when i
when i education system fails akid. And kids are so important,
and so valuable. Not only thatthey get the skills they need to
grow and to become educated, butto their self worth, and to who
they are as a person. So I hateto see when that happens. Sadly,
(07:01):
it's not new. And it's happeningfrom time to time, year after
year, you can always hear aboutsome great athlete that was
passed along. And yeah, theydidn't know how to read or other
people that have made it inlife. And they share that dark
secret that they had to keepthat that education system
(07:23):
Feldon. I think what happens isour system is set up, not for
individual education, but for agroup. And so if you have a
group, and you're not able toteach to reach all of them, then
sadly, some people get left bythe wayside. But I think the
(07:46):
beauty of it is we haveorganization like ABC, that that
is that net that catches thembefore they fall into the seat.
Yes, sir. And so we're able tobridge that gap. And, and help
those kids that need to helpbecause kids can learn, you
know, they just sometimes theylearn slower, they learn
(08:06):
different ways. Or just thatcookie cutter approach doesn't
always work for every singleperson in the group. So it's up
to organizations like ABC, andothers that are out there that
want to help those kids that arestruggling to fill that gap into
weekend need.
Billy Moore (08:26):
I like that I like what you just kept saying
because it is up toorganizations like ABC and
others to help you step in andfill that gap. As you know, ABC
before this COVID we would go inand out of schools. The teachers
(08:46):
need help they need help. Idon't know when I was in school
narrative teachers union foodyou did not boo with him. And
but it seems like it's it's it'skind of reversed today. The
teacher is a very timid andsomewhat afraid of the retaliate
(09:15):
retaliation or some of thedisobedient kids. But when you
have an organization like ABCand others games be gone and a
few other organizations the YMCAthat to me, yeah, yeah boys to
me in that tried to step in tohelp fill the gap. But if one of
(09:40):
the things probably what I'mgoing to do I know. Dad used to
sit down, I could look across atmidnight. One o'clock in the
morning, see him city, rowdyletters, writing letters. And so
maybe that's what I'll do. I'llsit down It made me write some
(10:01):
letters to miss Harris and Mr.
Biden about prevention.
Prevention we see like we wantto focus on when a kid gets in
trouble. We want to run in Hill.
But that's catch that kid beforethey ever get in trouble into
(10:24):
teach them how to step off inlife, with your best foot
forward without cowardice, butwith courage and dignity. There
was a young man that was in hereyesterday, jiggery Angell little
13 year old kid that goes up toAlbert Einstein and through his
(10:47):
Tableau key, and he came in andhe wants to join. But as you
know, we're not really lettinganybody join really. But every
now and then, a lot of thesekids, they just say the right
thing and you and you have to,you have to give him a break.
(11:10):
And so we we do the disinfectedbench shake. I see Oh, he has
every kind of germ disinfected,you have that's created. He has
it set up all the way throughJim, Pro, you get me when you
get through going through here.
(11:31):
You went from feet to here. Youwent in here he goes with some
spray and spray up some more. Sobut but uh, this kid, Angel, I
see Well, we're not lettinganybody in right now. So he just
he put his hands in his pocket.
He put his head down. And helooked up. And his Vigo eyes had
(11:56):
watered them. He was crying. AndI said, What? I said what? He
said, Well, I want to do this.
If you want to do what he said,I want to bucks. He said,
because I don't like the way myfamily is living. That's what
(12:22):
you see. And the first day hecame when we sent him out kind
of early. And he started crying.
He didn't want to leave thatkid. He's been here now for a
while, I think probably betweenthree and five weeks. And he
(12:47):
came in yesterday. And he wasjust a smiley and kicking his
feet and everything. And as itwas going on with you. I don't
know, coach. I don't know. Andhe said uh, you know, I'm used
to getting threes twos and ones.
(13:14):
He said, But now I'm getting A'sand B's. And that's happened
since i've come, coming to ABC.
LeMar Slater (13:28):
The gym has that effect on people? Isn't
Billy Moore (13:33):
it? It sounds like a, like folklore, or just
something that's made up. Buttwo of our board members, john
Reed and Bob Copeland. JOHN Reedused to be the CEO and president
(13:55):
of the holiday bowl for years.
And when he first came in, andhe saw the ABC concept. He said,
that's it. He said, that's it.
That's all we need. And you turnaround and walk down in my
(14:15):
Pokemon was an attorney with ashepherd and Mullen he would
tell his colleagues and in otherpeople that man you got to see
this here. You've got to see themiracles that happen down there.
And I think that's somethingthat's awfully nice for our
(14:39):
youth. We we do have a anorganization here that puts our
youth on the front burner and wetry and hold them there hold
their feet to the fire. We areOne of our kids that we've
(15:02):
discovered in the community thatcan't read today, we're in the
midst of the COVID. Andeverything we are taking all
safety precautions. MissMalveaux, who's one of our top
educators. She's going to startmentoring this kid today on how
(15:24):
to read. Awesome. It is. It isawesome and and she's one of our
people that that's affiliatedwith ABC that that really
respects this covid. But she'sgonna suit up and mask up and
safety up and come down to helpthis young kid. This is a kid
(15:50):
that's going to the seventhgrade. You can't read. So yeah,
well, it is it is. I think thatthe people like yourself,
educator, Miss Ravel. As I say Iwas talking to miss Amy Moran
last night. We can put somethingtogether that can help because
(16:17):
she is a concerned citizen,about our youth. And so but but
the more we ask a question, whatcan we do? What can we do? We
would like for people that'slistening to in the Ranger. So
when you're in the ring,everything goes everything
(16:37):
kicking, scratching, with namecalling all of it, everything
goes. But what can we do tolight a fire in our system, in
the in the educational systemthat unfairly Ah?
LeMar Slater (16:55):
Well, I think it starts right where you're at.
And that's having a concern anddesire, or willing to want to do
something about it. That seemslike a lot of times people don't
know and maybe don't care thatthere's a problem going on. But
when you're aware of it, and youstart to see here instances of
(17:15):
ones that are struggling andknow that something needs to be
done, then you can address it.
And so to start that fire, Ithink it comes from putting them
around people that have the sameinterest coming together and not
the coalition or, or concerncommunity members. And there's
(17:35):
so many things that we can bedoing. So you can either start
something new, or you can reportthe things that are already
working well. And I know ABC isone of those things that are
working well. We've had kidscome through here that couldn't
read. And lo and behold, afterwe paired them up with tutoring
and teaching, able to read andable to go on to school and be
(17:56):
successful. And so I think togrow, that we can grow ABC, we
can expand our reach, we canreach out to our school board,
we can reach out to ouradministrators, we can talk to
them, like he said, right? Hedid letters, that once those
administrators that are in placeto help our kids learn, know
(18:17):
that there's people that arethat are reaching out to them
and that are asking them to beaccountable and to and to make
sure no one falls behind, thenthey can start to address that.
And knowing that we have somepeople in the community that are
willing to keep them accountablefor that are willing to
(18:37):
volunteer their time. Because weneed to set that that that
doesn't take a lot of skill toteach another person to do. But
it's a tremendous payoff. I knowour libraries have programs
where adult learners can come inand learn Korean with
volunteers. But like you said,you don't want a kid to spend
(18:57):
all their life not knowing thatbasic skill. Yeah, so prevention
is the key. And it starts withknowing that there's a problem.
A lot of times educators mightnot have a way to connect the
parents to the issue that'shappening in the household with
the child not learning to read.
The times it may be educatorsoverwhelmed and he doesn't have
(19:23):
the manpower to address. Everysingle kid in his classrooms
issues with that not with everychild because people learn to
read in different ways atdifferent rates. But at a
certain point in the educationsystem, if you start getting too
far behind. There's no there'sno coming back from
Billy Moore (19:42):
it. I remember, pick I was in sixth grade. And
that might have been fifth orsixth grade. We were traveling
across country and we were goingOver under a train track and
(20:06):
going over the freeway, we wereheaded down to put out a Texas.
And there was a and years ago,and I am an old I am an older
person. years ago, he was aSanta Fe on the bridge. And I
(20:28):
was able to read when I readseven pain I knew I could read.
I knew I could read becauseprior up to that point I would
kind of slink down in my seat inclassroom when it came to
reading out loud noise andthings of that nature. But when
(20:51):
but that that day? No, I sawthat, that was able to recognize
center feet. It had a whitebackground with black letters.
Yeah. And that that got megoing. They got me going in now
what? Are there more things?
Well? Well, as you all know, youknow, I'm not a big zoom fan.
(21:21):
But I'm trying to become onebecause we have to work with
what we have. We can't just stopand not do anything. But what
can we do? Can we? Is there anyapples that we can dangle out
there to make these kids want tograb that Apple magic and read
(21:45):
it? Is there anything that youcan think of?
LeMar Slater (21:57):
I wish I knew like a secret sauce. Yeah, yeah. But
no, I thinkone of the things that we can do
is offer some kind of incentive.
Like, we had a beautifulengagement with our summer
programming. Yeah, it could besomething as simple as movie
(22:19):
tickets or movies or clothesright now. But maybe amazon
giftcard, or maybe some, somekind of small token of
appreciation, it could just belunch with the coach, or
anything that that can make akid want to have a target, want
to have something to shoot for.
Because a lot of times we asolder as adults realize the
(22:43):
value of it. But if you're ayoung kid, sometimes it takes
something smaller, to to twinklein front of your eye and make
you want to go that extra mile.
But one thing I've learned fromyou is just that having somebody
coaxing you, yeah, encouragingyou. That's the carrot enough.
(23:04):
Because that is for racing thatyou get from someone outside of
yourself. Who believes in youand sees what you're capable of,
can compel you to do greaterthings than you even thought
yourself.
Billy Moore (23:18):
Or your give all glory to God. I'm a god. No, no,
I think you guys see I get alittle violent sometimes.
There's just, I just, I want tosee, because I know what's right
today. Right to this thing. Ihave a math problem. I have a
(23:41):
math problem. And I think I'vebeen telling you for years. I'm
gonna get you to teach me how todo math. And I actually have a
serious math problem. And Ithink that that in a lot of
areas. It kind of nibbles at mycompetence. I believe that it
(24:04):
does. It just so happens in whatI do. It doesn't call for me to
fool with a lot of math. No, mywife told me nicely you keep
spending all his money you willhave in a but you know, it's I
(24:27):
know what that little thing inmy life. I know what it does to
me when I run into certainsituations. And we want to help
my children be all that they canbe black, red, white, yellow and
(24:50):
brown. egbdf. Every good buddydoes fine. And if we can get
everybody to turn to worktogether Working together,
working together, because whathappens when you when you're
(25:11):
lacking in learning in certainareas, you tend to find a place
to hide.
Don't come out and showyourself. We want all of our
kids to come out and showthemselves. And whenever you see
(25:31):
a kid slinking to the backhe's one we've got to give
attention to. She's one we haveto give attention to. And the
more what I'd like to do withthat I'd like us to do is to
continue this dude, I've beenwatching a show, it's called
(25:56):
Hartland. It's kind of a, Iguess, like a modern day horror
story. I've been watching it butgoing on, they shoot too much
and more. Every day, I go andMarcus here, in probably checked
out, sit there for a while andwatched it. That's how I'd like
for us to do with this podcast.
(26:21):
Like for this to be a segmentthat we do every week, every
week and bind by like to seesome kids. I like to bring some
kids in to the rink into therain that's learned how to walk
(26:43):
out here. Now they can crawlinto the rink. Instruct this
stuff in the rain. Because inthe rain, anybody can. And
everything goes. Well, we wantto thank our distinguished
(27:07):
guests. Yes, Mr. Lamar Slater.
And in the mall isdistinguished. Yes. He's a young
man who went off to school, allphases of school and made the
hundred roll. And so we are sograteful to have him here at
ABC, and in the ring with BillyMoore. Well, that will end our
(27:32):
show for today. And I hope andpray that there's someone or
somebody that heard this showthat would be willing to come
down with some ideas and want tovolunteer and help some kids
(27:53):
learn how to read. Until nextweek. Well, I'll see that what I
was gonna suggest right now seethat until next week, but until
next week. Go in peace. And Godbless you.
LeMar Slater (28:21):
If we want to thank you for having me on. It's
been an honor to be here. Sit byone of the greatest coaches I've
ever met. And just want to saythat at times you want to learn
that math. I'll figure out a wayto pair it up with some horse in
and I think we've got somethingdeal.
Billy Moore (28:41):
Alright, you know what, I think it's time for me
to take you up on that thing.
It's time. Thank you, Lamar.
Thank you to probably weren'tprobably the best tutor in this
whole thing. Okay, take care.
Have a great rest of the week.
Any Body Can Youth Foundation teaches our
youth to step off into life withtheir best foot forward without
cowardice, but with courage anddignity. ABC was founded by
legendary Light HeavyweightChampion Archie Moore in 1957.
He had a heart and passion forhelping the youth. He believed
if we went into the business ofprevention, we could save
billions of dollars and millionsof lives. He started ABC to
(00:32):
teach us the basic ABCs of life.
Are you concerned about theworld today? Do you want to help
train our youth to be the changeneeded in the world? Join us in
the fight for equality in thefight for justice in the fight
for our youth. If you would liketo help, go to
www.ABCyouthfoundation.org.
That'swww.abcyouthfoundation.org. Be
(00:56):
well and be blessed.
Billy Moore (01:03):
Good morning. Good morning. Welcome. Welcome.
Welcome to in the ring withBilly Moore was our guest, Mr.
Lamar, Mr. sleater. Lamar is anoriginal ABC boy. And he's been
(01:25):
with ABC since he was what whatis it Mr. Eight years old, about
eight years old, and eight yearsold. And the more introduce
yourself and give them a littlebackground about you.
LeMar Slater (01:37):
Oh, I'm so happy to be here. My name is Lamar
Slater. I'm a part of ABC sinceI was a young youth. Growing up
in San Diego my mother saw fitto bring me down to the rain.
And I was able to come aroundABC and learn from the great
instructor Billy Moore and hisfather.
Billy Moore (02:00):
Or that's a that's a very, that's very unique, that
you had a chance to be aroundthe mongoose for a while. In the
end to come on in. And you and Iwound up working together? You
want to come it up? Under histoday, Jen is both of
(02:23):
opportunities. That's a that'spretty good combination as a
month.
LeMar Slater (02:28):
Yeah.
Billy Moore (02:30):
What uh, what do you remember? as what you know,
I made to this thing where Ireally want to see our kids. ABC
is a prevention program. We wantto catch our youth as early as
seven years old. And teach themthe do's and don'ts of society.
(02:55):
before they get of the I like touse the word contamination, the
contamination age, where we upwhere we start, nibbling and
dabbling with some troubles. Butwhat do they ABC do for you, you
feel
LeMar Slater (03:13):
as a youngster, I can remember coming down to the
old bud, Jim, right there indowntown and coming into there
and seeing everybody working outand get a chance to put the
gloves on myself. It gave me asense of pride, like I was part
of a team. And then I remembergetting into the ring and lining
(03:36):
up to do the concert. Goingthrough those simple basic do's
and don'ts, things you shouldand should not do. And to me, I
think it just grounded me and itgave me something to latch on to
and to know that there's asimple roadmap to follow in
life. So that's something that Ithat I hung on to and was able
(03:58):
to go through high school. Somewould say a troubled high school
but are still clear from anykind of obstacles, actually
graduated with honors and evenstepped into leadership
graduated as our school. ASBpresident. Mm hmm. So there it
was off to Morehouse. 3000 milesaway from home. But I went away
(04:25):
to college, knowing that I havesomething behind me some
foundation, and some just asense of who I was and what I
was going after. And that was myeducation. And so I graduated
and I came back to get that,
Billy Moore (04:42):
right. Yes, you did. Yes, you did. Well let them
know what high school you wentto.
LeMar Slater (04:46):
I'm a proud graduate of Samuel Gompers
secondary school right here inSan Diego. We were a California
distinguished school back in1993 and 94 when I graduated,
and today, the School is stillaround, and it's charter school,
but it's doing some some amazingwork in the kids to college for
(05:07):
her.
Billy Moore (05:08):
Cuz Let me ask you a question here. I don't want to
put you on the hot seat. Butyou're an educator. So maybe the
hot seat might be all right. Butwe're having a problem that a
(05:30):
number of kids have been passedfrom grade to grade. They can't
even read. How do we, I wastalking to actually, Amy Moran,
who's one of our board membersand a retired top educator. Her
(05:51):
and I were talking about thisyesterday. And she said
something that really, really,really made me feel good. She
was talking about Biden andKamala, Kamala Harris. And she
said, Well, you know, Biden isan educator. And she said, they
(06:12):
will and not knocking Trump notknocking anybody. But she said
that they will revamp oureducational system and take it
to another level. But back towhat I asked you what, what's
your take about these kidsthat's being passed through?
(06:32):
Can't read? How does thathappen?
LeMar Slater (06:35):
You know, it's the sad thing that happens when i
when i education system fails akid. And kids are so important,
and so valuable. Not only thatthey get the skills they need to
grow and to become educated, butto their self worth, and to who
they are as a person. So I hateto see when that happens. Sadly,
(07:01):
it's not new. And it's happeningfrom time to time, year after
year, you can always hear aboutsome great athlete that was
passed along. And yeah, theydidn't know how to read or other
people that have made it inlife. And they share that dark
secret that they had to keepthat that education system
(07:23):
Feldon. I think what happens isour system is set up, not for
individual education, but for agroup. And so if you have a
group, and you're not able toteach to reach all of them, then
sadly, some people get left bythe wayside. But I think the
(07:46):
beauty of it is we haveorganization like ABC, that that
is that net that catches thembefore they fall into the seat.
Yes, sir. And so we're able tobridge that gap. And, and help
those kids that need to helpbecause kids can learn, you
know, they just sometimes theylearn slower, they learn
(08:06):
different ways. Or just thatcookie cutter approach doesn't
always work for every singleperson in the group. So it's up
to organizations like ABC, andothers that are out there that
want to help those kids that arestruggling to fill that gap into
weekend need.
Billy Moore (08:26):
I like that I like what you just kept saying
because it is up toorganizations like ABC and
others to help you step in andfill that gap. As you know, ABC
before this COVID we would go inand out of schools. The teachers
(08:46):
need help they need help. Idon't know when I was in school
narrative teachers union foodyou did not boo with him. And
but it seems like it's it's it'skind of reversed today. The
teacher is a very timid andsomewhat afraid of the retaliate
(09:15):
retaliation or some of thedisobedient kids. But when you
have an organization like ABCand others games be gone and a
few other organizations the YMCAthat to me, yeah, yeah boys to
me in that tried to step in tohelp fill the gap. But if one of
(09:40):
the things probably what I'mgoing to do I know. Dad used to
sit down, I could look across atmidnight. One o'clock in the
morning, see him city, rowdyletters, writing letters. And so
maybe that's what I'll do. I'llsit down It made me write some
(10:01):
letters to miss Harris and Mr.
Biden about prevention.
Prevention we see like we wantto focus on when a kid gets in
trouble. We want to run in Hill.
But that's catch that kid beforethey ever get in trouble into
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teach them how to step off inlife, with your best foot
forward without cowardice, butwith courage and dignity. There
was a young man that was in hereyesterday, jiggery Angell little
13 year old kid that goes up toAlbert Einstein and through his
(10:47):
Tableau key, and he came in andhe wants to join. But as you
know, we're not really lettinganybody join really. But every
now and then, a lot of thesekids, they just say the right
thing and you and you have to,you have to give him a break.
(11:10):
And so we we do the disinfectedbench shake. I see Oh, he has
every kind of germ disinfected,you have that's created. He has
it set up all the way throughJim, Pro, you get me when you
get through going through here.
(11:31):
You went from feet to here. Youwent in here he goes with some
spray and spray up some more. Sobut but uh, this kid, Angel, I
see Well, we're not lettinganybody in right now. So he just
he put his hands in his pocket.
He put his head down. And helooked up. And his Vigo eyes had
(11:56):
watered them. He was crying. AndI said, What? I said what? He
said, Well, I want to do this.
If you want to do what he said,I want to bucks. He said,
because I don't like the way myfamily is living. That's what
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you see. And the first day hecame when we sent him out kind
of early. And he started crying.
He didn't want to leave thatkid. He's been here now for a
while, I think probably betweenthree and five weeks. And he
(12:47):
came in yesterday. And he wasjust a smiley and kicking his
feet and everything. And as itwas going on with you. I don't
know, coach. I don't know. Andhe said uh, you know, I'm used
to getting threes twos and ones.
(13:14):
He said, But now I'm getting A'sand B's. And that's happened
since i've come, coming to ABC.
LeMar Slater (13:28):
The gym has that effect on people? Isn't
Billy Moore (13:33):
it? It sounds like a, like folklore, or just
something that's made up. Buttwo of our board members, john
Reed and Bob Copeland. JOHN Reedused to be the CEO and president
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of the holiday bowl for years.
And when he first came in, andhe saw the ABC concept. He said,
that's it. He said, that's it.
That's all we need. And you turnaround and walk down in my
(14:15):
Pokemon was an attorney with ashepherd and Mullen he would
tell his colleagues and in otherpeople that man you got to see
this here. You've got to see themiracles that happen down there.
And I think that's somethingthat's awfully nice for our
(14:39):
youth. We we do have a anorganization here that puts our
youth on the front burner and wetry and hold them there hold
their feet to the fire. We areOne of our kids that we've
(15:02):
discovered in the community thatcan't read today, we're in the
midst of the COVID. Andeverything we are taking all
safety precautions. MissMalveaux, who's one of our top
educators. She's going to startmentoring this kid today on how
(15:24):
to read. Awesome. It is. It isawesome and and she's one of our
people that that's affiliatedwith ABC that that really
respects this covid. But she'sgonna suit up and mask up and
safety up and come down to helpthis young kid. This is a kid
(15:50):
that's going to the seventhgrade. You can't read. So yeah,
well, it is it is. I think thatthe people like yourself,
educator, Miss Ravel. As I say Iwas talking to miss Amy Moran
last night. We can put somethingtogether that can help because
(16:17):
she is a concerned citizen,about our youth. And so but but
the more we ask a question, whatcan we do? What can we do? We
would like for people that'slistening to in the Ranger. So
when you're in the ring,everything goes everything
(16:37):
kicking, scratching, with namecalling all of it, everything
goes. But what can we do tolight a fire in our system, in
the in the educational systemthat unfairly Ah?
LeMar Slater (16:55):
Well, I think it starts right where you're at.
And that's having a concern anddesire, or willing to want to do
something about it. That seemslike a lot of times people don't
know and maybe don't care thatthere's a problem going on. But
when you're aware of it, and youstart to see here instances of
(17:15):
ones that are struggling andknow that something needs to be
done, then you can address it.
And so to start that fire, Ithink it comes from putting them
around people that have the sameinterest coming together and not
the coalition or, or concerncommunity members. And there's
(17:35):
so many things that we can bedoing. So you can either start
something new, or you can reportthe things that are already
working well. And I know ABC isone of those things that are
working well. We've had kidscome through here that couldn't
read. And lo and behold, afterwe paired them up with tutoring
and teaching, able to read andable to go on to school and be
(17:56):
successful. And so I think togrow, that we can grow ABC, we
can expand our reach, we canreach out to our school board,
we can reach out to ouradministrators, we can talk to
them, like he said, right? Hedid letters, that once those
administrators that are in placeto help our kids learn, know
(18:17):
that there's people that arethat are reaching out to them
and that are asking them to beaccountable and to and to make
sure no one falls behind, thenthey can start to address that.
And knowing that we have somepeople in the community that are
willing to keep them accountablefor that are willing to
(18:37):
volunteer their time. Because weneed to set that that that
doesn't take a lot of skill toteach another person to do. But
it's a tremendous payoff. I knowour libraries have programs
where adult learners can come inand learn Korean with
volunteers. But like you said,you don't want a kid to spend
(18:57):
all their life not knowing thatbasic skill. Yeah, so prevention
is the key. And it starts withknowing that there's a problem.
A lot of times educators mightnot have a way to connect the
parents to the issue that'shappening in the household with
the child not learning to read.
The times it may be educatorsoverwhelmed and he doesn't have
(19:23):
the manpower to address. Everysingle kid in his classrooms
issues with that not with everychild because people learn to
read in different ways atdifferent rates. But at a
certain point in the educationsystem, if you start getting too
far behind. There's no there'sno coming back from
Billy Moore (19:42):
it. I remember, pick I was in sixth grade. And
that might have been fifth orsixth grade. We were traveling
across country and we were goingOver under a train track and
(20:06):
going over the freeway, we wereheaded down to put out a Texas.
And there was a and years ago,and I am an old I am an older
person. years ago, he was aSanta Fe on the bridge. And I
(20:28):
was able to read when I readseven pain I knew I could read.
I knew I could read becauseprior up to that point I would
kind of slink down in my seat inclassroom when it came to
reading out loud noise andthings of that nature. But when
(20:51):
but that that day? No, I sawthat, that was able to recognize
center feet. It had a whitebackground with black letters.
Yeah. And that that got megoing. They got me going in now
what? Are there more things?
Well? Well, as you all know, youknow, I'm not a big zoom fan.
(21:21):
But I'm trying to become onebecause we have to work with
what we have. We can't just stopand not do anything. But what
can we do? Can we? Is there anyapples that we can dangle out
there to make these kids want tograb that Apple magic and read
(21:45):
it? Is there anything that youcan think of?
LeMar Slater (21:57):
I wish I knew like a secret sauce. Yeah, yeah. But
no, I thinkone of the things that we can do
is offer some kind of incentive.
Like, we had a beautifulengagement with our summer
programming. Yeah, it could besomething as simple as movie
(22:19):
tickets or movies or clothesright now. But maybe amazon
giftcard, or maybe some, somekind of small token of
appreciation, it could just belunch with the coach, or
anything that that can make akid want to have a target, want
to have something to shoot for.
Because a lot of times we asolder as adults realize the
(22:43):
value of it. But if you're ayoung kid, sometimes it takes
something smaller, to to twinklein front of your eye and make
you want to go that extra mile.
But one thing I've learned fromyou is just that having somebody
coaxing you, yeah, encouragingyou. That's the carrot enough.
(23:04):
Because that is for racing thatyou get from someone outside of
yourself. Who believes in youand sees what you're capable of,
can compel you to do greaterthings than you even thought
yourself.
Billy Moore (23:18):
Or your give all glory to God. I'm a god. No, no,
I think you guys see I get alittle violent sometimes.
There's just, I just, I want tosee, because I know what's right
today. Right to this thing. Ihave a math problem. I have a
(23:41):
math problem. And I think I'vebeen telling you for years. I'm
gonna get you to teach me how todo math. And I actually have a
serious math problem. And Ithink that that in a lot of
areas. It kind of nibbles at mycompetence. I believe that it
(24:04):
does. It just so happens in whatI do. It doesn't call for me to
fool with a lot of math. No, mywife told me nicely you keep
spending all his money you willhave in a but you know, it's I
(24:27):
know what that little thing inmy life. I know what it does to
me when I run into certainsituations. And we want to help
my children be all that they canbe black, red, white, yellow and
(24:50):
brown. egbdf. Every good buddydoes fine. And if we can get
everybody to turn to worktogether Working together,
working together, because whathappens when you when you're
(25:11):
lacking in learning in certainareas, you tend to find a place
to hide.
Don't come out and showyourself. We want all of our
kids to come out and showthemselves. And whenever you see
(25:31):
a kid slinking to the backhe's one we've got to give
attention to. She's one we haveto give attention to. And the
more what I'd like to do withthat I'd like us to do is to
continue this dude, I've beenwatching a show, it's called
(25:56):
Hartland. It's kind of a, Iguess, like a modern day horror
story. I've been watching it butgoing on, they shoot too much
and more. Every day, I go andMarcus here, in probably checked
out, sit there for a while andwatched it. That's how I'd like
for us to do with this podcast.
(26:21):
Like for this to be a segmentthat we do every week, every
week and bind by like to seesome kids. I like to bring some
kids in to the rink into therain that's learned how to walk
(26:43):
out here. Now they can crawlinto the rink. Instruct this
stuff in the rain. Because inthe rain, anybody can. And
everything goes. Well, we wantto thank our distinguished
(27:07):
guests. Yes, Mr. Lamar Slater.
And in the mall isdistinguished. Yes. He's a young
man who went off to school, allphases of school and made the
hundred roll. And so we are sograteful to have him here at
ABC, and in the ring with BillyMoore. Well, that will end our
(27:32):
show for today. And I hope andpray that there's someone or
somebody that heard this showthat would be willing to come
down with some ideas and want tovolunteer and help some kids
(27:53):
learn how to read. Until nextweek. Well, I'll see that what I
was gonna suggest right now seethat until next week, but until
next week. Go in peace. And Godbless you.
LeMar Slater (28:21):
If we want to thank you for having me on. It's
been an honor to be here. Sit byone of the greatest coaches I've
ever met. And just want to saythat at times you want to learn
that math. I'll figure out a wayto pair it up with some horse in
and I think we've got somethingdeal.
Billy Moore (28:41):
Alright, you know what, I think it's time for me
to take you up on that thing.
It's time. Thank you, Lamar.
Thank you to probably weren'tprobably the best tutor in this
whole thing. Okay, take care.
Have a great rest of the week.
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