history. joining us now, caroline brando williams, woodward winning poet, essayist, she s a writer in residence at vanderbilt university. caroline, thank you so much that last point about accepting america s past, is not a way to understand the current republican revenge? they just can t deal with complications, how someone could ve voted for obama, but can still be racist, or that gender might be more complicated than the sex assigned at birth? you know, i like to think that my patriotism has a backbone. and when i say that, would i mean is that i can examine this country and say i love it, and also except the ways that it is flawed, and has failed, and canoes continues to fail. this place did not begin as a truth telling place. thomas jefferson wrote, we hold these truths to be self evident,