Lied to.

And lied to, and put under the harshest conditions to, um, to be brought here, and then kept, uh, you know, as enslaved people for hundreds of years, and then subjected to, uh, all types of government programming and social programming, and ways to, to be oppressed.

Um, I think the story of, of Black Americans against all the odds that they were dealing with, and all the ways that they were told they were not good enough, um, they didn't have the aptitude for this and the aptitude for that, to be brave enough to move all the way across the country and take on new types of work.

Yes

... living in America doesn't look a certain way, but there are some, some really, um, difficult systems to navigate that can, that trap people.

And but when you're coming from a place where, you know, you may come from a community that looks a very specific way and the experience is a very specific experience, and you come here and it's like, "Oh," like, "there's so much opportunity here." But it's also in reverse because, you know, when...

I don't know why this has stuck with me.

I was in the fourth grade, right? Like, you can tell it's stuck 'cause I'm like, we're talkin', we're, we're rolling the clock back, uh, quite a bit.