Where we are. I indicated this morning in the earlier comments you two werent able to hear them. But were at an important juncture point where the United States, which is the most successful economic democracy yet to have evolved on the planet is sitting with a huge opportunity where the competition of the world has now risen. It gets our blood flowing and our heart beating harder to do better and compete harder. Were at an educational moment where now we realize that with 330 million people, weve got this opportunity through the diversity of our population to really become something that no one else has ever become before, which is this highly educated, highly adaptive, highly creative population thats come in from everywhere around the world and can do things that are just off the charts. We have an opportunity to actually facilitate the birthing of a new economic trajectory for the United States. But just at the same time as that has happened, weve sort of run the full course with t
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You were to no one from being an assistant processor to a story career. Along the way, you were the dean of harvard law school. You are just my favorite law professor. Im not alone in that in 2008. Junior senator from illinois was a man named barack obama. He said when i was at harvard law school, i had a teacher who changed my life. Martha. It is such a delight to be here. I have learned so much from you through the years. I love the book because it has your voice. Its compassionate. Its brilliant. It is wise. It is grounded weird it is gently provocative. Thank you. How did you come to doing this legendary career. The highest legal power to writing a book about forgiveness i wrote a book about 20 years ago about responses to mass violence. At that time, the commission in south africa had just started. I was so intrigued by the development of a new Legal Institution to deal with horrific violence and oppression. I wrote a book finding an alternative to these two different responses to
The first is why this book now . Of course i am just excited to sit down and talk about this book. The reason is i feel like the people have asked for it. The last book i also chronicle the idea of antiracist ideas and the clash over time so when i would speak i would encourage people to be antiracist and move away from those ideas that were ingrained in them so then they said tell me more because people are taught to be not racist so that construct was new so the more as they ask the more i realized this was a book i felt i could potentially answer. That is interesting because its not as though you planned to write this book but im thinking it is an extraordinary book as a historian through and through but there is the risk associated with the implications because you felt called to do this so talk about that distinction because that was in the clear fashion so i notice that those that wrote concurrent books have written this extraordinary praise which is an indication of how importan
And so when i would speak about that book i would encourage people to be antiracist. I would encourage them to move away from the racist ideas that had been ingrained in them and so the more i spoke about being in antiracist the more people were like, tell me a little bit more. Okay. Antiracism stuff because as you know, people are taught in this country to be not racist. So this construct of being antiracist was new. The more people ask how to be antiracist, the more i realize that this was a book and i felt like i could potentially answer it. Thats really interesting because its almost as though you had it necessarily plan to write this book. I was thinking, its in a extraordinary book you are historian through and through and there is a kind of risk associated with writing a book that has like really immediate implications. But he felt called to do this and talk about the distinction though that you draw because you draw it in a very clear and cogent fashion. One of the things i not