and you asked about the booker wright project, and i love the work that we do there at the booker wrightoject. one of my favorite things to do is, you know, when i went to greenwood, mississippi, i had an expectation that i would meet these horrible white racists, you know, who would all be walking around with pitchforks and, you know, wearing tank tops and dirty clothes and not-brushed teeth9 and what not, but i met people who are some of my best friends and people who themselves have difficulty reconciling the parents that they love, you know, the grandparents who they adored with the fact that they also, that those grand parents stood against progress, stood against equality for blacks. and so being able to sort of see that it's more complicated than -- and, obviously, everyone knows it's complicated, but being able to identify some of those complications has really informed my perspective on race relations. and so some of the lessons i learned while writing "the song and the silence" has transferred into this organization, and some of the work we're doing is with police officers. i w

and you asked about the booker wright project, and i love the work that we do there at the booker wrightoject. one of my favorite things to do is, you know, when i went to greenwood, mississippi, i had an expectation that i would meet these horrible white racists, you know, who would all be walking around with pitchforks and, you know, wearing tank tops and dirty clothes and not-brushed teeth9 and what not, but i met people who are some of my best friends and people who themselves have difficulty reconciling the parents that they love, you know, the grandparents who they adored with the fact that they also, that those grand parents stood against progress, stood against equality for blacks. and so being able to sort of see that it's more complicated than -- and, obviously, everyone knows it's complicated, but being able to identify some of those complications has really informed my perspective on race relations. and so some of the lessons i learned while writing "the song and the silence" has transferred into this organization, and some of the work we're doing is with police officers. i w