he pointed to these yucca plants and he said, you know, that these plants for use as markers toark place where enslaved buried their loved ones and i got the chills i looked across and looked and the sea of yucca plants and i rembered lamenting feeling like these people toiled their entire life th were enslaved their entire they built the south. they their lives wen't recorded at birth. they weren't recorded death. d en when they died, they were thrown away as if they never existed. and it was just an emotional experience because when you see the wave of yucca plants, you see just despair and you feel despair and you just see the the the the disrespect for black life. and so, you know, like i said, that trip is something i will take with me to my grave many, many learned a lot from dr. taylor. and there was so much in terms of what i saw and what i experienced helped me not only into framing writing the book, but just my understanding of the disenfranchisement of black life. it is that the cupboard, the cuoa that your ancestors created now. yes, that's another. i had slave index from. be