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Hey, everyone, and welcome to part four of the virtual town hall on the topic of how to have

difficult conversations about race, and you made it. Kudos. Congratulations. This is the last

portion of the Q&A. And we round out the third hour of this marathon session. So thank you for

sticking with us and hope you enjoy it. How do you reconcile the challenges of the U.S.

Constitution itself? Since it was authored by people who felt it was

acceptable to own other people, are difficult conversations enough to create the actual change we need

up to and including co-authoring a new social contract? Yeah, that's really tough. So let me just

tell you my perspective on the Constitution. I see it as a living document that changes as we as the world

changes. It can't be the same. I mean, what would the Constitution say about Twitter? I mean,

nothing, nothing. It would have nothing to offer for a lot of the most fundamental principles

and issues that we have today.

One of the problems I have with the Constitution is that we treat it almost like a religious document where it's like the people who created this were infallible and therefore that

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