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Kenji Yoshino

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
450 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

And I said, I can't be honored with the name of an individual who has so dishonored my people. So he took that away. He immediately got it. And he said, please don't make any sudden movements. You know, don't go to another school. I'll call you back in three days. And three days later, he called back and he said, I have a new chair for you. And I said, lay it on me. I'm all ears.

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

And I said, I can't be honored with the name of an individual who has so dishonored my people. So he took that away. He immediately got it. And he said, please don't make any sudden movements. You know, don't go to another school. I'll call you back in three days. And three days later, he called back and he said, I have a new chair for you. And I said, lay it on me. I'm all ears.

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

And I said, I can't be honored with the name of an individual who has so dishonored my people. So he took that away. He immediately got it. And he said, please don't make any sudden movements. You know, don't go to another school. I'll call you back in three days. And three days later, he called back and he said, I have a new chair for you. And I said, lay it on me. I'm all ears.

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

And he said, we want to offer you the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professorship of Constitutional Law. And this time I was the one who was a little bit annoyed and certainly astonished because I thought, well, wait a minute. I just rejected the Earl Warren professorship three days ago.

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

And he said, we want to offer you the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professorship of Constitutional Law. And this time I was the one who was a little bit annoyed and certainly astonished because I thought, well, wait a minute. I just rejected the Earl Warren professorship three days ago.

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

And he said, we want to offer you the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professorship of Constitutional Law. And this time I was the one who was a little bit annoyed and certainly astonished because I thought, well, wait a minute. I just rejected the Earl Warren professorship three days ago.

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

You're now tacking the words Chief Justice to the front of it and flipping it back to me as if this were a new chair. So essentially, how stupid do you think I am? Like, what's going on here? And he said, please hear me out. in the days since our last conversation, I've read a biography of Earl Warren.

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

You're now tacking the words Chief Justice to the front of it and flipping it back to me as if this were a new chair. So essentially, how stupid do you think I am? Like, what's going on here? And he said, please hear me out. in the days since our last conversation, I've read a biography of Earl Warren.

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

You're now tacking the words Chief Justice to the front of it and flipping it back to me as if this were a new chair. So essentially, how stupid do you think I am? Like, what's going on here? And he said, please hear me out. in the days since our last conversation, I've read a biography of Earl Warren.

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

And he said, as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, who wrote canonical opinions like Brown v. Board of Education or Loving v. Virginia, which legalized interracial marriage in the United States, that the thing he most regretted about his career was the internment of the Japanese.

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

And he said, as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, who wrote canonical opinions like Brown v. Board of Education or Loving v. Virginia, which legalized interracial marriage in the United States, that the thing he most regretted about his career was the internment of the Japanese.

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

And he said, as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, who wrote canonical opinions like Brown v. Board of Education or Loving v. Virginia, which legalized interracial marriage in the United States, that the thing he most regretted about his career was the internment of the Japanese.

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

So he said, you know, given your commitment to civil rights and given your commitments to diversity and inclusion, I take your life work to be taking people along this journey or maturity curve of understanding how many different valid ways there are to be a human being. And he said, given that Earl Warren was able to travel so far along that path in a single lifetime,

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

So he said, you know, given your commitment to civil rights and given your commitments to diversity and inclusion, I take your life work to be taking people along this journey or maturity curve of understanding how many different valid ways there are to be a human being. And he said, given that Earl Warren was able to travel so far along that path in a single lifetime,

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

So he said, you know, given your commitment to civil rights and given your commitments to diversity and inclusion, I take your life work to be taking people along this journey or maturity curve of understanding how many different valid ways there are to be a human being. And he said, given that Earl Warren was able to travel so far along that path in a single lifetime,

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

We actually think that it would be a wonderful emblem of the power of your work to hold his name, but to hold the title that he held when he was completing rather than beginning that journey. So I said, Ricky, that chair I can take. And so I am speaking today as the Chief Justice Earl Warren, Professor of Constitutional Law.

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

We actually think that it would be a wonderful emblem of the power of your work to hold his name, but to hold the title that he held when he was completing rather than beginning that journey. So I said, Ricky, that chair I can take. And so I am speaking today as the Chief Justice Earl Warren, Professor of Constitutional Law.

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

We actually think that it would be a wonderful emblem of the power of your work to hold his name, but to hold the title that he held when he was completing rather than beginning that journey. So I said, Ricky, that chair I can take. And so I am speaking today as the Chief Justice Earl Warren, Professor of Constitutional Law.

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

This is one of the most remarkable findings of the Deloitte study, which is that we found that 45% of straight white men reported covering. And I think my colleagues found that really surprising. And I didn't find it surprising at all because I had spent many years after publishing the book where white men would come to me and say, here are all the identities that I have to cover.

Hidden Brain
Dropping the Mask

This is one of the most remarkable findings of the Deloitte study, which is that we found that 45% of straight white men reported covering. And I think my colleagues found that really surprising. And I didn't find it surprising at all because I had spent many years after publishing the book where white men would come to me and say, here are all the identities that I have to cover.