The Black Lives Matter Movement

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I wanted to ask you to put the last year and a half into perspective, being careful about the recency effect and te availability heristic. We've gone through a pedemic, the black lives matter movement, the meto movement, in all the protests and the capital storming and in the riots in seattle and portland. It's been pretty crazy. But you lived through 19 68, assassination of king and kennedy, the vianom war, water gate, all those protests and terrist attacks back then. S just kind of put the recent year into perspective for what you've observed in your life? Yes, life is complicated, and that makes it wonderful,

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