Adam Harris

And that now is gone.

There is no federal government to appeal to.

In fact, the federal government is the antagonist.

We could win, but we are very, very, very likely to lose if we keep treating this as business as usual.

You know, I've been thinking a lot about this.

I was recently in New Orleans for Mardi Gras, and I bring my kids.

I'm from New Orleans.

That's my hometown.

My parents still live there.

There you go.

And I want my kids to have—I bring my kids often to New Orleans because it's a place that means a lot to me, and I want them to have a connection to that city.

And one of the things that we did kind of between the celebrations and the festivals and the parades is we got in the car with my mom and went to her elementary school, which is no longer there.

It's a school that was called T.J.

Semmes.

And we went there because my mom was among the first black students to desegregate that school or to integrate that school.

She was there after, you know, there were the four little girls, including Ruby Bridges, who integrated New Orleans schools in 1960.

And I brought my kids there with my mom in this moment because I've been thinking a lot about this.

what it means for people to understand Black history, not only as something as like about Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King, but also as this thing that's the people who are right next to us, right?

Like their grandmother, not Martin Luther King, not Rosa Parks, not these people in the books, like their grandmother was among the first wave of students to integrate a school.

in New Orleans, and I want them both to understand that because of their proximity to it, but also in this specific moment, I think it's a reminder that the Trump administration can try to change a museum.