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Welcome back I'm Rebecca and I'm Gabe and it's been a big week. Yeah, I think for all of us lots of learning lots of listening

It's been good. I mean I think I know for me I grow a lot when I actively listen to other people,

help me better understand things, and the race conversation in America is one that

has been going on for a long time, and I know we've been paying attention to that,

learning a lot through our Q community but I realize now

I mean it's like everybody's waking up to this it's exciting I mean everybody's reading

history books and watching 13th Amendment you know the documentary on Netflix. So education is so important to then lead to action. So it's been good.

Yeah, last week you facilitated a two hour conversation with our dear friend David Bailey and others. We had about

nine people, Tasha Morrison, all just were so kind to give us their time

because we know that people of color don't owe us to educate us. We have to do the

work ourselves. But we had a great time. We had 10 different talks through Q and we

called it race and repair because we want to talk not only about racial reconciliation personally

I think a lot of people understand that part and feel good that they're making progress

there. What people don't seem to understand is the systemic piece of racism where it's worked itself into

our structures as a society and that's really what the protester about that's what

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