Glenn Singleton

We have to do the first work of looking inward, right?

And we have to ask that simple question of, you know, what impact does race have on my life?

And what impact does my race have on my life?

And as I look around my community, how is race playing out there?

You know, what is so clear to me is that everybody who's looked like me has had this journey before me.

And when I think about, you know, coming all the way across, you know, the grounds of West Africa through the transatlantic slave trade, up through slavery, Jim Crow, you know, all of these moments of oppression for people like us,

when we get to, to, to my generation and we have more than we've ever had.

And, and so I just feel like it can't fall apart with me.

Wow.

Well, you know, when I talk about having so much, oftentimes we get hung up with the new shiny stuff, right?

So absolutely, it takes less time for me to create the guidelines for a conversation in these corporations now because I've got friendly AI.

We never had that.

I didn't even have a cell phone when I was building this work at the beginning.

This is three decades deep.

With those two, there's a whole group of people who have now flourished from these modern technologies and

From, you know, the hard work that the entertainers, the athletes, the corporate people have done before, and they've got bank to prove it, right?

So when I think about what's in the community in terms of resources right now,

And I think about the challenges facing our community, third grade reading level in every major city across the country for black children.

I'm pushing right now on the multimillionaires and the billionaires to figure out, you know, what it is that you're doing with all that extra.

Right.