Okay, ready. I want to know some things she's something.

I think about everyone you need

I'm holding these things are brutal,

now I have here, seen you warming you,

hey.

Good sort of race show, okay though, good so a race show, okay though. That might be the best slavery somehow but it's not.

Author Clint Smith, one of my favorite follows on Twitter,

is the author of how the word is past,

which deals with how America is reckoning with slavery and one of the ways he does it

is that he goes to different cities and sees how these sites reflect the way that we are reckoning or not with slavery and one of the most powerful

parts of it is when he goes to Angola prison.

You go around to different places that demarcate slavery.

Which of these places had the greatest or largest emotional impact on you?

I mean they were all deeply emotionally impactful in different ways but the

the place that probably stayed with me the most is Angola.

So yeah so for context for folks Angola is the largest maximum security prison in the state of Louisiana

The largest maximum security prison in the country

It is 18,000 acres wide, bigger than the island of Manhattan.

It is a place where 75% of the people held there are black men.

Over 70% of them are serving life sentences,

and it is built on top of the plantation.

It is larger than Manhattan. It is larger than Manhattan.

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