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Uh, but hoped that there would be an opportunity for them to come in and, um, experience the museum.

Uh, and so when I, when I saw them, uh, I talked with my staff, and I went back and I, I talked to the boys and their chaperones and I told them, um, "There's no way in the world that I'm gonna allow you to come to my city on the South Side of Chicago-

Mm-hmm.

And I don't think that in that enslaved condition that my ancestors had the agency or the imagination to think that one day one of their descendants would lead the presidential center for the first Black president- Yeah ...

in the history of a country that was responsible for their enslavement.

Yeah.

journey,

right? So I lost 200 pounds too fast the wrong way.

I looked sick.

I basically become skinny fat.

That's what happens with people who don't eat properly on peptide shots like GOPs, right? You lose 60%.

Muscle.

So I had lost, you know, I had a big frame.

but I love that idea that, you know, you can kind of be in a, create a safe space where people are comfortable because it's important to be able to be around people who you identify with.