BJK: So it was a man (Dean Florez, CA Democratic Senator) and a woman who pushed so hard for Title 9, but senator (Florez) owed so much to his grandmother, his mother and his wife. . It’s actually the Patsy Mink law and she got behind. She wasn’t really that involved with it until Wendy, her child, came home from school. Wendy had just been elected president of the high school. She said, mom, I’ve been elected president of the high school, but my teacher (a woman teacher) said, girls can’t be president, you’re only vice president. When you’re a momma, when you’re a momma and someone hurts your baby, you don’t like it. So Patsy Mink, Congress woman Patsy Mink said, that’s it, I’m gonna help (the) title, we’re gonna get that sucker passed. It was gonna be called title 10. It went through so many different stages. But, to have equal money given to high schools, private, public or colleges or universities that receive federal funds, it was to start being given equally to men and women, girls and boys. And, in sports, it’s still uneven, -- thinks we’re getting too much, that’s another discussion.

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Before 1972, schools had a quota and the reason why there are very few women lawyers and doctors is because of friends of Susan Love a great doctor of breast cancer went to Yale, I think, or one of those Ivy league schools said I want to come here and go to medical school and they said, ah, we already made our quota filled. So, what’s your quota? 5 percent. So, when you’re 5 % - 10%, that’s why you have doctors or lawyers are women. Now, in colleges, 55 to 57% women are enrolled in universities and colleges now we’re starting to worry about our guys. It should be 51-49 right? Now we gotta worry about our men, our boys, what’s going on? So, something’s not right. But, any time you oppress people and the doors are open they’re going to flood right in, and that’s what women have done since 1972. That’s why there’s so many in universities and colleges. They were oppressed before that. No one cared and no one even thought about it. Race was an issue, to this day; I think the race card out trumps the gender card. We need to get both the gender card and the race card and whatever other card, LGBT card, all the different things card and we need to get…I don’t want this to be a discussion any more (audience applauds). When you go to Europe, they laugh at us. They hate us now by the way.

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BJK On European Relations

They used to love us before, believe me, I’m 64, I know. Only two years, they go, what’s wrong with you guys? What is this about? Race and…? What is wrong with you? You know…Liberia has a woman president. Liberia, third world, “Hello, hello, hello, what’s wrong with us?” Why do we have to have these discussions and, the misogyny in the media? I couldn’t watch after a while. But, no one even cared because no one noticed what was being said. Until we wake up and not allow that to happen on race or gender or anything else we have to say “no, we cannot do that to each other, we cannot!” So, anyway whatever you decide, make sure you vote. I don’t care if Republican, Democrat, Independent, I don’t care. Just make sure we vote, okay. Let’s see if we get at least over 50 percent. That’s your privilege to be able to vote and actually have a say and not have someone with a gun to their head. Or, not having to leave the country because there’s been a coupe or something that’s happened. Like, Chrisiane Amenpour having to leave Iran because of this change and her uncle was executed, I mean, that’s the way the other world is. They get bombed every day where these kids live. So, it’s very interesting. So, America, maybe the depression will cleanse us…

Why write?

BJK: Two years ago, well, more than two years ago…I wanted to write again. This is my eighth book. I haven’t done one for 20 years. And I said, you know, I just want to do a fun little book about, that any teen-ager can read; that grandma and grandpa can get something for their grandkid or parents can read to their kids. So any way, I thought it would be fun to do it around the 35^th anniversary of Bobby Riggs. And, I thought it would be fun for people to get a little more inside my head and have a better understanding of Bobby. But, also talk about my family and my lessons in life and maybe it’ll help somebody else.