Thank you. Well, this is one of the warmer crowds I've been in front of in a long time. Actually, that's gonna cause me to relax, and then I'm going to be even more provocative than I usually am. So, but Jodie stole my cylinder there a little bit. I usually start by pointing your attention to the fact that I'm white and acts asking you to actually look at me and think about it for just a minute. Part of what it means to be white is that goes against all my conditioning and all my socialization because I was taught that I really didn't have a race. I was just the universal human race is what they had. And certainly, I was taught not to be drawing people's attention to it. So, how did I come to be standing in front of groups of people saying look at me, I'm white, and that has meaning? Well, for me, it started when I got a job as a diversity trainer in the early 90s. And I was going to go into the workplace in interracial teams and lead discussions on race and racism. And when I applied for that job, I sincerely thought that my qualifications were that I shopped at PCC, I'm a vegetarian, I went to Evergreen, and I Drive a Prius. Okay, so we didn't actually have Priuses in the 90s, but I hope you get my point. I really thought that what this was about was open-mindedness and that since I was clearly open-minded, I was good to go and I was qualified. And it was just about getting other people to be open-minded. And I was in for the most profound learning of my entire life on every level. One is to realize in no way was...
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