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will be on it stick into this with you who are williams he is university chair and distinguished professor of history at the university of cent thomas and he joins us now from minnesota professor we were just listening to some pretty divergent opinions there 3 about all of this i mean this is a choice that dr seuss's est is making themselves let me ask you do you agree with it. i do i think it's a great decision on the prairie estate primarily because we are in a moment 'd of racial reckoning in the united states and beyond and it's an important occasion at the state recognizes this moment that those images and depictions of people of color in particular african-americans or africans and particularly asians which dr seuss was you know very some of that artwork is very hurtful some of the propaganda he produced is very hurtful no longer needs to be represented in those children's books particularly for young people were reading those at a fair. i see i feel like this is all coming at a very specific time in history that you've had a time where people right now are really hyper conscious of anything that could potentially offen

of business at san jose state university. so let's talk about this. we have made progress. statistics show that but we've got a ways to go. we're still of the numbers. i saw 82 centse dollar. absolutely we still have a very long way to go in terms of getting charity, you know, gender clarity, and this is not just in the united states. it's all over the world, you know, the problem is perception, too. i mean, do you think at least we're in a place where people say yes, they should get paid equal, li or are we still trying to get people to agree with that concept? you know, i think there are. there are both societal barriers. i think there are structural barriers. um, there are some historic pathways. you know that occupations that women have gravitated to that also contribute to some of the issues. you know when we look at across the board across different industries, and i think that you know, we have to make progress and on all those fronts. but yes, i do think that we do need to change some attitudes. in addition to addressing some of those structural barriers and i we hope that i asked for time i asked because you know, we just recently had the news about the n