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So it's Black History Month.

It's Black History Month.

This is, I almost wrote this in my Instagram post year of the day and then I was like, it feels like an entire chapter in a book.

Between you and Rosie, truly. It has always been such a celebratory month. It's not just like, oh this is a thing. It's like every day.

This is what we're doing. Will you talk about this month for women like me who didn't grow up with a lot of African Americans in their circle?

And so don't understand why this matters so much and why it is so important. I mean, I could go off all day but this coming from you feels like the wisest course.

Yeah. Well, thanks so much and it's so fun to see you now being so pumped. What do we do over February?

I mean, it's because it is just such a special month and I think there's, it's important on so many levels, right?

So it's important on just like a historical factual level that you, this is not history that you learn that most people learn in schools, right?

Like if I didn't have parents who were like giving me books and teaching me things, I would have graduated from college thinking that maybe Martin Luther King, Jr. was the only person to ever fight racism, you know.

There's like a lot to learn just historically. And then like celebratory like it's just a good time to pause and important time to like stop and reflect that once you learn the history and you realize the history of black people in this country, then you realize that like a month at a year to just stop and be like, we made it.

That's amazing. The odds were against us and we're going to like celebrate like crazy and honor that strength and resilience is like super important.

So I think it hits a lot of front. And I think sometimes there's like, wearingness or adversity or just like, unknowing about it that I think can cause people to be like confused or not sure how we should be participating or is black history month only for black people.

And so I think it's just a good reminder that this is for everyone like black history is US history. And it's really important to celebrate because it's not celebrated the other 11 months typically an intentional time to like learn and unlearn is so important and so valuable.

I loved, did you see Chris's post that he post this weekend about going to New York and getting to experience the history. Yes.

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