Angeles included discussions about discrimination against religious minorities and overcoming racism. This part of the event is an hour and 15 minutes. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Were going to move right into our second discussion. The second discussion is entitled rethinking religious freedom. Im going to very quickly introduce our fellow panelists, discussion errors. Asifa quraishilandes, professor of law and a research [inaudible] focuses on the constitutionalism [inaudible] and nathan walker, 1791 delegates and its an Organization Made up of legal scholars and practitioners who help companies, educational institutions, nonprofits do with issues of religious liberty, religious literacy and education. So from there im just going to jump right in and i will start with nate. Could you walk us through just a brief history of religious liberty in the United States . Waited come from . What are what we sing today in f an almost redefinition of religious liberty be
The issue of race and nationalism. And i think that is the issue of our time. In other words, how race is creating or influencing conversations that put communities into a corner and that divides our country and makes it difficult to have honest conversations about national security, about civil rights, about pluralism. About the economy, even. So, im just going to let you open with your remarks and then well take it from there. No pressure on the high level conversation, right . Like the loquacious abilities after the last two panels. Ive got to say this guy is intense, never met him and never seen him. I was just like, i dont want to play chess with that guy, never. [laughter] great. It was its great and thank you for having me here. Its just interesting, i think, a week, maybe a few days more than that, we were at the wise up summit in washington d. C. With daisy khan also talking about samy topics and ideas that are affecting many communities, but primarily the Muslim Community and