the great theodore roosevelt memorial and statue in front of the new york museum was essentially crated and taken away. and i'm told last report that it will be finding a new home in dakota. god bless north dakota dakota. barry weis. writes eloquently about much of what i'm speaking evening. i've really learned a lot from and she she wrote a a paragraph that i think really beautifully much of what i'm sharing this evening. she wrote the primary of this idea logical movement. she's talking about cancel culture is not building or renewing or but tearing. she says persuasion, is replaced with punishment. mercy is replaced with vengeance, pluralism, conformity, debate with de-platforming facts, feelings, ideas as with identity and. i think there's a reason, perhaps, that she is a former new york opinion writer. let me demonstrate why i write at length in the book about the 1619 project for, those who don't know the 1619 project posits that the united states begins actually in. 19 when the slave ships came to the coast lands of what is now the commonwealth of. i promise you all, i do not speak in these terms, but this is a lie lie. this is a very to project. and it is borne of a a