Let's talk about first and foremost, did you always envision yourself having kids?

Yes and no.

There were a lot of parts of my life, especially younger, where...

You know, I did struggle with anxiety like as a teenager and early adulthood.

And I always thought to myself, like, there's no way I can take care of kids.

Like, I can't even take care of myself.

It was always kind of like in the back of my mind of maybe I'll have kids, maybe not, right? Especially when like, you know, before I met my husband, like dating and just like I can't, you know, I was like, I don't know if I'll ever find anyone.

But

Mm-hmm

... that shows us that around Amer- that around America's anniversaries, there tends to be a push from administrations to whitewash American history, to focus simply on the great acts, but a very specific great acts by specific great people, predominantly white men.

Um, but that's not the mood that Americans are in, uh, today.

Americans want to hear about all of the messy, complicated aspects of American history, of United States history.

They understand just simply by virtue of their experience within the United States, even the experience today of, you know, uh, of inequality-

And can I go to you, Leah?

1852.

Frederick Douglass's speech, July 5th speech on the anniversary of, the 76th anniversary of, uh, the declaration, of signing of the Declaration of Independence.