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...Phil, like his parents, did not succeedwithout having to deal with issues of race, evenat Friends Central School which he attended fromfirst through 12th grade. In a school that wasmore than 80 percent Jewish, and had only asmattering of black faces, Goff founded the BlackStudent Forum, and challenged what he saw as ateacher's racist interpretation of Cry theBeloved Country...
...parents knew that our history, community and traditions were all tainted by American racism. That meant few stories, fewer house-guests, and no direct discussions about race. I would not have anyone else's preconceptions to muddy my self-image," Goff says...
...Goff knew, of course, that race had affected his family--it was the reason that his parent's wedding made the front page of the local newspaper...
...Goff also began his spiritual journey duringhigh school. While as late as ninth grade he canremember "asking if he could help someone" whobelieved in God, in 11th grade, he began dating a"deeply spiritual" girl who he says slowly taughthim to value the "good over the right." In hisefforts to understand her (aka do the rightthing), Goff says, he tended to order herreactions into binary categories, which he nowsees as a very 'male' strategy, which, over thetwo years they dated, slowly denied her her ownvoice (not realizing the good). After theirbreak-up and during their subsequentreconciliation, Goff says he realized...
Music, and black music in particular, have beenimportant to Goff since he was very young. Beforejoining Kuumba, Goff was a member of the Din andTonics, a mostly white world-touring a cappellaensemble. During his time in the Dins, and throughfriends' experiences with Harvard-RadcliffeDramatic Club, Goff says he realized that thepredominantly white groups had a higher level ofinstitutional knowledge about tapping into Harvardresources...