Hey, this is Durey.

Welcome to Potsy of the People.

On this episode, we're joined by Ivey Young, a law student at Harvard University

and a member of the Coalition for a Diverse Harvard.

And Michelle Turner, young senior counts

with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

Unfortunately, we are living in a world where there are so few black and Latinx applicants

that even if Harvard got rid of every single black and Latinx applicant from its admissions pool,

it would only increase the chances of white and Asian-American applicants by 1%.

And we have the news as usual with me, Brittany Clinton and Sam.

The thing that's been on my mind this week, I was talking to my good friend, incredible

poet, Cleo Wade.

And we were talking about this idea of the language of bringing your best self to something.

You know, people say like, I'm bringing my best self or show up in your best.

And it's like, at what point, and she pushed me on this, at what point do you decide that

some people just unworth your best self?

At what point do you walk into rooms and say like, you know what, I'm actually not going

to show up in the fullness of my gifts?

And like it really made me think about the language of the best self.

Like we actually should be walking into everyone, treating the people that we're in front

of, that we're with, that we're building community, a family with, is worthy.

We should do that in all the rooms we're in.

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