Prior to the photo shoot with rolling out, White was on location at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s home church, for a block party sponsored by Operation Hope. Operation Hope educates young people about the importance of financial literacy, and the organization tapped White to explain how financial irresponsibility can upend one’s life. After leaving Dartmouth College, White had a credit score of 400, and while he’s no doubt improved from that financial low, he wants to help prevent others from experiencing a similar predicament.
“The American dream has always been to go work for somebody, but more and more people are working for themselves,” says White. “If you don’t understand how to get loans from banks, if you don’t understand how to start corporations, if you don’t understand how the international markets work, you can’t do that stuff. You’re not part of the game that everyone else is playing. You’re playing checkers still and everyone else has moved on to chess, especially for the urban community, it’s imperative that we become financially literate, that we work together and that we elevate ourselves.”
Read on to find out what else White had to say on politics, and his career.
