you know, sandra bland was still blogging. you know, and sandra speaks. george floyd had moved from houston to minneapolis. yet, you know, the west baltimore wasn't on fire. you know, the writing or the cvs was still there. that that quiktrip in ferguson hadn't been attacked to burn down, you know, in so many ways. i was trying and in 2011 to figure out what how president obama's ascendance had distorted african-american politics, trying to hold back this youthful area where folks were reading the obama administration as the fulfillment of the black freedom, you know, the black freedom tradition and and so when i think about it, kahlil, you know, obama was kind of, you know, the kind of anchor to those lectures. but looking back on them for books came out of them, you know, democracy in black. i was writing at the same time that i was thinking about those lectures begin again. my my meditation on baldwin as you can see, elements of it in these lectures that's the reflections on religion, on the moral aspect of our politics there in the lectures. and so in