W. Kamau Bell

Let's see.

My seven-year-old hates the president and will say it out loud.

So and I'm in and, you know, and while we may we can have a grown up discussion about hate, I think it's it's very savvy of her to understand that this person is not on my side, you know, and so therefore I put that person into the hate camp along with like, you know, lima beans, whatever you want to say.

So, for me, the idea that my 7-year-old is aware of the state of the world and aware even in sort of a 7-year-old way is really important to me because it means that, like, if you – because some people grow up not being aware of the state of the world, and then when they're full-grown adults, you've had conversations with them, and they're like – they say something like, well, you know, how many senators are there?

And you're like, oh, no.

You know what I'm saying?

And it's fine.

And I will tell you and we can have a conversation.

But I think the more that in my house I grew up as an only child, I heard my mom having every conversation.

And so with my kids, they seem they're hearing me have a lot of conversations.

They're also seeing my work.

They're also seeing how people talk to me in the street.

So they're aware that like.

Data does things where he has to talk to people about the state of this country regularly.

And they've heard me speak enough to know which sides we're on and that we want to be on the side of the people.

And the people is not just people who look like us.

And we live in Oakland, so they can see those people.

And so then you have like my 14-year-old who just graduated from eighth grade, who as part of her graduation celebration, her advisor said, and Sammy Bell, who thanks to her and the administrator who talked to her,

Now every kid in this school knows the words to lift every voice and sing because my daughter sang it at every like school, you know, function.

She was like at every school.