Preparation for the opening of these museums or, excuse me, for these restaurants the original neon sign for mintons mayhouse was taken off and given to the play mouths was taken off and given to the yet to be opened africanamerican museum at the smithsonian. And i would just like to ask both of you if you really seriously think that harlem can avoid becoming a praise where the schomburg a place where the schomburg is sort of like a synagogue in china town. [laughter] real. Yeah, thats very real. Michael, ive heard you express that before, and i think its absolutely something anyone who cares needs to have their eye trained on. I also think as long as there are black people in the streets of harlem and im just hike, even as i say that, all these encounters i overhear and pass through and cross through in the most amazing poetic ways, like that is its own space making. And i have my own inner debate about, you know, i had a conversation with a friend about the we were looking at the ren
Whether you think there are sort of real sort of ideological conservativism as opposed to just some of these kind of formative influences, you know, whether you saw evidence of that in his writings or in his, you know, his conversations. Are yeah. Well, you know, i think the best clues we have are these speeches where he talked about the individual versus the state and god given rights. This the closest thats the closest here got to a kind of comprehensive statement that went beyond, you know, we need more missiles or weve got to send a man to the moon. I havent mentioned the moon shot, but that was, i think, really more part of a cold war battle with the soviet union. And he was also a very competitive guy. I mean, he its a cliche almost at this point, but he grew up in this big family playing touch football and doing sailboat races, and the big competition at the time was between the u. S. And the soviet union. I mean, and hed been in world war ii which was, which was another big bat