Ilana Glazer

None of them.

I forgot that they even could.

yeah do you know yeah like the system it's so wealth is so mythologized I forgot they could when he said that I was so mad I was like yeah right they should have absolutely you know first of all I just want to say when you paint this picture of your dad growing up among the rebel you know I grew up on Long Island Suffolk County North Shore Jewish obviously but not among Jews among Italian and Irish and

Yeah.

Being on Long Island and being in a segregated white suburb, I had this sense that this was a system because we would go into the city and see plays or whatever.

And I was like, I know it's not like

white people are just here because.

I just had this sense and it took me so long.

Then I came to the city and sort of educated myself and learned, but just thinking about the way the city was criminalized, essentially living there as a kid.

I was born in 87, so growing up in the 90s and the story of AIDS and drugs and the rubble as though the people growing up among it had caused it.

And so it's like you're up in this lie

And it takes so much lived experience, learning, reflecting, more lived experience, learning, reflecting to come out from outside and see it.

And it's painful as a kid.

Yeah.

It hurts.

And you're feeling this system hurting people.

When you say the dropout rate, this is the...

Yeah.

It's like, for what?

We're in Brooklyn.