well, that s a loaded question peter. wonderful to be with you part of it is that i was born and raised in huntsville, alabama and surrounded by engineers who came to huntsville to in the race to put the man on the moon. so engineering was a very common degree that people pursued i needed money for college. my activist parents were broke and vanderbilt offered me a merit scholarship on forever grateful. i loved science and math and i use the logic of engineering in my writing you could particularly i think see it in my most recent book where i m a self-hot-taught historian, but i bring a systems analysis. to the structures that create racial inequality. so there s a connection there. it s helps me to think critically. well that path began in huntsville, alabama. it went through vanderbilt university and then to oxford university masters in english law jd from harvard. and then a clerkship with supreme court justice thurgood marshall the clinton white house and finally to auth
Committed to something called diversity. A concept that nobodys willing to explain but that nonetheless we must celebrate enthusiastically and perpetually. Listen to nancy pelosi explain. Biodiversity, that is our strength. Diversity is our strength. Our diversity is our strength. I always say that diversity is our strength. And i stated to the caucus, our diversity is our restraint. The fact is, our diversity is our strength. Tucker okay. Got it . Diversity is our strength. They made up her crystal clear. What is still unclear is what exactly diversity is paired what is it . Well, for one thing, diversity is the reason that allison child but was forced to resign her dog job in hers grace period until 24 hours ago, she was the executive director of the Democratic Congressional campaign and yesterday she quit in tears. She asked her colleagues to forgive her as she packed her things. What did she do wrong . Well, nothing, actually. She didnt hurt anyone. She didnt hurt anyone. Insane th