Hi. So I have my book with me, 515 Clues, and it's the only copy. And I want to show it to you, so I'm unveiling it. So this is my book. This is the only copy, so if you want to read it, you'll have to come over. And I'm going to read from a chapter called Personal Slash Ritual, and I think that's all I'll say about it. I'll just drop you in. Aura is seven, and she loves Jesus. She loves him so much that she's very careful not to step on the shadows when she comes home from school. If she steps on one of the long shadows that cast themselves across the living room floor, the devil will seep up from the darkness into her foot and from there into her blood, and her soul will become infected with evil. Every night when her mom comes home from working at the bar, she says, Aura, you are such a good girl.  But sometimes Aura wants to do naughty things, so she tries to do them in a way that's still good. Like one time when she carefully tore a page out of her mom's Bible, cut it into little strips and put it in the Campbell soup. Her mom smiled and ate it and said, it was so yummy. And Aura was such a good girl to make her dinner after such a long day. Aura smiled like an angel, feeling very, very smart. Aura lets herself in the front door with the key she keeps safety pin to the inside of her jacket. The room is full of shadows cast by furniture, their forms playing long across the floor, bulky, spindly, menacing. She's been playing in the yard poking a stick into an ant hill and watching them cover it almost up to her hand in just a couple seconds and then throwing it as far as she can into the woods behind the house. She made a rule for herself that she won't go in the woods anymore. That's where Frank took her dog Poppy after he bit him. He just bit him that once and Frank took him in the woods and never brought him back. She has a bad feeling in her tummy when she thinks of the woods kind of like the devil and she wonders if Frank is the devil and if so why her mom lets him come over. She tiptoes across the living room, catching small squares of porch light that flicker through the blinds. Then one big jump and she flips the switch while still in the air and now things look normal, familiar, before her feet even land on the ground. Carpet gray, recently deep cleaned but still stained, worn down, lived on. Wooden rocking chair, green leather chair worn through to the stuffing. A tweedy brown plaid couch inherited from grandpa. It used to be the nice couch but Samantha the kitten has shredded its corners so the threads billow and dangle tempting more claw sharpening. Where is Samantha? She has a sleep under the long low fake wood coffee table so you can tell it's fake where it's starting to peel up on the corner. There's a vague smell of cat pee but it can't be blamed on Samantha. There have been lots of animals. It's covered up with the fragrance of those glade smelly candles, a fruity potpourri hanging in the air or a positions herself on the strip of carpet between the couch and the coffee table. Extends her bare feet so that one of them presses into Samantha's soft belly the other wiggles free in the evening air. Ora wants to get as close to God as possible to be not just good but a perfect replica of God's likeness. She puts all her heart into it when she sings in church and when she eats the food they bless at dinner. When she says her prayers before she goes to bed and especially when she learns about the sacrament of holy communion which is almost old enough to do now. She is fine tuning her inner purity, the difference between wanting something really bad and just opening up and letting go and then sometimes she gets filled with this amazing light that makes her feel connected to everyone who ever lived and died.  Her baby sister who went to heaven after only three weeks. The kitten before Samantha who she accidentally stepped on in the basement and poppy with his floppy ears and bad breath. Dear Jesus. It's very nice of you to let us take communion after everything you went through. I'm sorry we are such bad sinners. I used to go to the Living Waters Evangelical Church but now I go to most pure heart of Mary Catholic Church and Mrs. Norman told me how your flesh was flayed from your body and then how God turned you into the host which I will get to eat when I have learned my catechisms. I'm sorry about how you had to carry that big cross so far and it was so heavy and everyone was laughing at you calling you names and throwing things at you. That must have really hurt your feelings. I know one time at school I threw a girl through a ball at me and it hit me in the stomach and I was crying and she called me a cry baby and a nerd. I was so mad at her. But you weren't mad at them, you loved them. How did you do that? Mrs. Norman said I should be able to feel your love but sometimes I don't know if I do or not. She says you're everywhere and everything and you are watching me all the time and you know all my thoughts. Then why can't I feel you or see you or hear you on the inside? She says to read the Bible, everything's there but I don't really like the Bible because it's so boring. I'm sorry, I know that is bad to say. I guess you must have a reason for making it like that. I guess only people who try really hard to like it can go to heaven. I wish I could meet you so I could know for sure that you're real and what everyone says is true. Please don't be mad at me, I want to believe. Love aura age seven. Aura begins to prepare herself for her own version of the Holy Communion. She finds the birthday and Christmas cards from her grandma, the one she's never met, the one who lives in Arizona and signs her cards to Abuela. Then she collects all the Jesus dolls from the living room and her mom's room. Icons, her mom always corrects her, including her favorite, the one of the baby Jesus in his manger. She wants to lift him out but he's stuck there looking so innocent and sweet gazing up at her. She leans down into his manger and kisses his sweet little nose. She gets all the leftovers out of the fridge, the casserole from last night, the soup she made all by herself on Monday, and fruit, she needs fruit. She's making a feast for God. There are two apples and a shriveled tangerine and candles. She finds the little prayer candles and a lighter in the junk drawer. She brings all these things to the dining room table, arranging them in a kind of circle. She climbs up on the table, situates herself in the middle and begins to take off her clothes. Skipping a little bit back to Aura. Aura is now sitting naked on the dining room table. She has placed three candles at the end of the table where her head will go.  There is a crucified Jesus by her feet and Jesus dolls by each hand. She lights the candles. She lays down careful not to get her hair in the flames. Toes pointed, crossing her feet at the ankles. She places her letter to Jesus, along with the apples and the tangerine on her chest. She feels the weight of the apples through the crinkly paper. The tangerine rolls down to her belly button. It's cold, pocked skin, making her own skin shiver in response. She spreads her arms wide and grabs a Jesus in each hand. Okay, Jesus, she says, let's do it. She lies there and waits. She's not sure what makes this moment different from the one before. Everything is in place, but she still feels the same, just a kid lying on the table. She's tried to use everything she can to tempt him, compliments, devotion, logic, food, but the real thing, the core of it all, is this, just her, herself. She's offering herself for him to enter her to let her know him. If he is real, she will feel it now. Now. Now. But she doesn't, she just lies there, kid on a table. The tangerine is rocking back and forth against her belly button when she breathes. Maybe she should say something, a special prayer. She wishes she could say it in Latin, like the priest. Jesus. She sings on one note, a high sustained angelic hum like the choir sings in church. She can feel it right around her belly button, the tangerine wiggling with her vibration. She continues, thinking of what to say. Please make me hold. She sings for as long as she can hold it. And when she runs out of breath, she takes a really big deep one and watches the shriveled little tangerine rise into her vision. The two apples roll off her chest and land in her armpits. She giggles at the feel of their cold skin, then takes another deep breath. She wonders how many other people have done this ritual. She figures if it's real, if it works, it must be something that lots of people do. If God is really God, then he knows how to tell you things even if you never read the Bible or go to church, right? So then lots of people must offer themselves to Jesus like this. Please, please, please, Jesus, please, please, please.  And then when she can't stand it anymore, she relaxes, and then she feels almost like a switch inside her and a surge. And then all of a sudden there's this buzz all through her, everything alive and humming. Like it's always been there, she just never noticed it before. Is this Jesus? It might be. So she does it again, squeezes tighter, tighter, until she is teeny, tiny, every muscle clenched, even her face, her toes, her tummy, all the way through. She lets go, she's breathing heavy now, huffing and puffing, and the tangerine rolls off her belly across the table and onto the floor. The hum is stronger now, and with it a warmth in her belly, a tingle in her pee place. Beneath the table, Samantha skitters and pounces on the tangerine, which has followed the slope of the lopsided dining room floor, scrolling across her path. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


years I've had neck problems and into my shoulder for years and I've been going to physical therapy for the last three months. I went to doctors and neurologists at the Downing Mary Cadillac and they sent me to physical therapy and I couldn't move my neck this way and I couldn't move it. I have no name there. It's completely gone. Angie, can you tell us today the testimony that you have to share with these lovely people? Well, I had neck pain for 20 years but this last year it got really, really excruciating bad where I couldn't sleep at night and it was terrible and I had physical therapy for three months twice a week. I did not have to go to physical therapy this week. I laid with a heating pad and he would rub it and sometimes I would cry it would be so bad and for four days I'm telling you I had a lump there for 20 years and it is completely gone. So let's put our hands together for Jesus. So if you can clarify for us what exactly happened, how did you get this neck pain? Well, he told me that it began when I was in a car accident when I was 15 years old. I did not know it and I didn't feel the pain until I was 30 and I would disobeyed my parents that night. I was thinking that I would disobeyed my parents that night and I was in a car with boys when I was 15 and a half and I got in a car accident and that's what I'm counting it up to anyway. So you mean to say that because of a car accident a few years later is when you started experiencing the pain in your neck and you went to go see a doctor to get it fixed but there was nothing that the doctors could do? No, there was nothing they could do. So when you came to the worship night on Saturday can you tell us what happened that night when everyone was praying? When everyone was praying. Well, it had been a really rough week for me and the Holy Spirit and Jesus' strength had gotten me through that whole week and I needed to come to that for some refreshment and I wasn't expecting a healing at all. Vlad called for a salvation prayer. A couple of people got saved. Hallelujah. And then he asked us if there was pain in our necks or our shoulders or our backs to place our hands there and I thought oh well that's me so I did it. And I just, I've been healed before last year in my back with Sid Roth on TV and so I knew the power and I had faith and I just said Jesus you know if this is meant for me right now I have faith and if there's some sort of demon on my shoulder I ask it to go in the name of Jesus and it fled. It's gone. Amen. Let's put our hands together for wonderful Jesus. What I want to point out about this awesome testimony is that nobody came up and prayed for her. Nobody came and put their own hands on her just simply in faith and the atmosphere of prayer just like what Yulia was talking about where two or three are gathered in his name. We know that the spirit of God is with us and so in that atmosphere just by faith she received her healing instantly and by this testimony we know that our God is still the same and we know that we can grab on to faith when if you might be experiencing sickness or if you might be experiencing nightmares or anything like that when you're in the atmosphere of prayer and the atmosphere of faith you simply just grab on to faith. It's as simple as that knowing that it is a gift from God and that's exactly what our sister Angie did and now she's experiencing no pain. Amen. Can you show us now what you can do with your neck that you couldn't do before? I could not move it this far and I can move it all around. Wow, let's put our hands together one more time for Jesus.


Well, food security is, of course, a tremendously important objective and something which we shouldn't take for granted. But food self-sufficiency as a way of trying to address food security is simply, it doesn't make sense. Europe is blessed with fertile land. We are never going to be in a position where we are very dependent on food imports. But there are countries in the world, we think of North Africa, Central America, which will always depend on food imports, even with the best agricultural policies. So trade is hugely important. And even though Europe is by and large self-sufficient in most of the main commodity groups, we import oil seeds, but apart from that we are more or less self-sufficient, but we do depend on trade. It helps farmers and it helps consumers.


Selecting materials is another important decision which has to be made while planning a writing course. What sort of materials we will have to select? And of course, the answer is very simple and straightforward. The materials which are motivating, which are engaging, which encourage students produce texts. So again, while selecting materials, we will have to ask ourselves about the ideology we stick to, whether we stick to behaviorism. That might not be interesting, socioculturalism, yes, interesting. So there are several features which we will have to keep in mind while making decisions about materials. One of the most important is the topics. Are the topics interesting? Are the topics engaging? For example, if we choose topic, give topic to the students which is culturally irrelevant or which is religiously irrelevant or which is ethically not seen appropriate, may not be engaging. So yes, we will have to be very dexterous in terms of making decisions about selecting materials. Are they culturally appropriate? Are the topics culturally appropriate? For example, we cannot include topics on taboo areas which are considered socially social taboos in the Pakistani context. Is the content relevant? The topics bring in the content which is relevant, which is not irrelevant. Then types of writing, are the students writing essays, letters or paragraphs appropriately? Yes, this is important decision. Is what they need to be writing? I mean it's not like writing for the sake of writing, rather writing for the sake of generating ideas and drafting ideas, synthesizing ideas, putting those ideas into a coherent whole. Then another element or feature is which of the following are included when we select materials, whether we allow our students to brainstorm or we just force them straight away start with writing, whether we encourage our students to do exercises of pre-writing. I have used this pre-writing exercise often in my language teaching context and found very useful results, listing, mapping or outline. What information is provided? It's important while we give instructions to the students about writing, we shouldn't do too much because too much instruction can confuse them, descriptions, narration, exposition and argument. So this is how we need to encourage our students brainstorm ideas and then put those ideas into drafts and revise and edit them. Collaboration is important and I have seen its effective positive results like when I see classroom as a community, as a community of diverse minds, diverse mentalities, diverse social cultural needs, then it becomes easier to create peer work, group work and it's important for the language teacher to see collaboration in our context like it may be difficult in the first class and to make the students sort of start with collaboration and from my own personal experience point of view I sort of engage them into collaboration into the third or fourth class when they have become quite used to my teaching, my own presence in the classroom. Are students encouraged to write drafts? Yes, this is important because writing multiple drafts allows students to see writing as a messy process. Does your student curriculum allow for the revision of essays? So revision is again very important. So there are a number of decisions which a language teacher will have to make while selecting materials for a writing course.


Thanks so much for joining us on Think Tech Hawaii. Time for responsible change. And today we're going to talk some about where the U.S. Supreme Court decision on affirmative action leaves us, where it's headed and what might be constructive ways to address that and respond to it. And we have with us back for the first time since April, Rebecca Radliff, wonderful jams, mediator, arbitrator, long time senior claim executive and knowledgeable and respected in the insurance industry and the ADR conflict resolution industry nationally and internationally. Tina Patterson, who also has national and international experience in business consulting and is also a leading mediator and arbitrator. And David Larson, professor at Mitchell Hamlin School of Law, media past chair of the American Bar Association section of dispute resolution and a pioneer in court online dispute resolution, bringing access to justice to people through online court processes. So wonderful group here. Having read through the decision that the Chief Justice wrote for the Supreme Court in the affirmative action case, which has now held that affirmative action programs violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and are not lawful. Where does that leave us? Well, at least it's confused. You know, there is this little that little escape clause that was put in there saying that, well, you could still consider as applicants explanation of how race affected his or her personal life with challenges they created. And there go, there go the confusion because you're not supposed to consider race.  So if you're on an admissions committee and you're trying to decide what factors can I look at, I think you're left with some confusion. And the problem is there are groups lining up that are saying, you know, we're watching you now, and we're going to sue you. If we see any evidence that you've taken race into accounting admissions in my school, we've received those kinds of threats. And I imagine pretty much every school is receiving them. So there's a lot of intimidation going on. Well, in the history of affirmative action, in the Bakke case back in 1971, the first one that really approved it, we had four opinions saying affirmative action was okay as a remedial measure to correct racial discrimination against minorities. We had four saying it wasn't. And then we had Justice Powell writing what turned out to be the swing vote and eventually getting later accepted as the significant opinion, whatever that means, saying no, but diversity is a legitimate constitutional basis for colleges to factor race in as one element in the admissions process. And since then, the resistance to that has been looking for ways. Now we're at a point where if you read the opinion carefully, it looks like they are, and Chief Justice Roberts is, setting it up to undercut that diversity justification in future cases. Am I off base on that, or was that a sense that you folks also got on this opinion? Well, I think Chuck's right. And I think that there have been different attempted justifications for affirmative action. And diversity is one of them, that there's value to having a diverse population for a variety of reasons. Not the least of which is that when you come out of school, like it or not, you can run but you can't hide. The United States is ethically and racially diverse. You're going to live in a place that is racially and ethically diverse, and you have to be able to be comfortable there, work effectively and productively in that environment, and hopefully school can prepare you for that. So that's a strong reason to say that, yeah, we want to have our schools integrated. We want to have them diverse. When you think about affirmative action, so that's at least in the educational context, that's been one of the accepted justifications. When you get move over to the employment, really the only accepted justification, and that hasn't, that has not been accepted, is kind of a past sins model or a past sins paradigm.  The only justification is if you're going to pass sins, and then if that's the only justification, then you get the immediate pushback that I didn't do any sins. I wasn't around when all these things happened historically. I'm not a sinner.  And so you get caught in that kind of trap. And so long as there's a resistance to accept any other kind of justification under equal protection, that's the conflict in affirmative action. What's concerning to me, and I've had a lot of conversations about this, and mostly we're speechless. As you said, David, when you began, it's confusing. But I'm concerned with the points that you've just made. I'm concerned about the domino effect. You can't win for losing is the saying that we used to hear. And so there are all these loops. As you've said, if we come up with a reason for why or how minority experiences should be considered, then there are laws being put in place. Florida is just making some incredible law right now to make sure that you just can't win for losing anywhere where it appears that an agreement might be able to be made to give advantage to people in disparate condition. It appears that the legislation doesn't support. I'm trying to the legislation that exists and the legislation that's coming doesn't support equal justice for minorities. And so this is a step back. I'm concerned about the instability that this is creating. And before the show started, Chuck was talking about education, employment and housing. It's not just education. So in addition to the points that you've brought up, David, we also have to be concerned about the domino effect that happened because of COVID. So there's all kinds of instability that exists in communities where they are underserved in so many areas. And now the question returns as to whether or not those the people in those communities can educate get their children educated.  We've moved backwards and I'll admit it does have me speechless because I don't know what's going to happen. So it's even it's just hard for me to even articulate the concern that I have around this reversal. Well, and there's another element in the decision which is both prioritize and emphasize repeatedly, not once, not twice, but many times, which is remedial action programs for discrimination have to end. And Chief Justice Roberts has been pushing for those to end for years. And now he's got the votes to be able to do it. So regardless of whatever else is said in the opinion, it's clear that one of the things that this right wing majority in the Supreme Court has decided to do is to put an end to remedial measures and actions for the results of not decades, but centuries of discrimination. And not just racial, but sexual preference, disability, many other kinds, linguistic proficiency. Yeah, Chuck, he used the right adjective. I've always said that affirmative actions in misnomer, really what we've always been talking and doing is remedial action. And it's based upon our history of discrimination. And it's not something affirmative, it's we're trying to correct what we've done in the past. To the degree that this court has declared that there's no need for remedial education, it's just suddenly tone death. It's like, how can you look at America today? How can you watch the evening news? How can you read any kind of print media and think that there's there's no need anymore, that everything's fine, that all discrimination has been overcome, and we can just go forward equally. It's just mind boggling. It really is. Seeing that discrimination, that there's no more discrimination is no longer needed. It's, oh my gosh, what have we got on our hands? We are now opening the floodgates, we are now having a conversation where we're talking about everything as Chuck indicated, people who are linguistically diverse, people who are in terms of abilities, ableism, diverse, sexual orientation. These are aspects that we didn't talk about in the 50s, 60s, 70s, in the 20th century. And we're entering the 21st century. And this is a conversation where we have schools who, you don't tell us, we'll pretend it's not happening, where we have students who are of diverse sexual orientation, but we'll pretend we don't see it because you don't bring it up. And Tim now say, well, everything's fine, we'll go back to where we were, or these programs are no longer needed. It puts the students in jeopardy, but it also puts the schools in a very difficult position because they now know how do we maintain the matriculation rates for students. Every school wants to make sure that their matriculation rates are at a certain level when they drop below 40 or 50%. It usually signals there's something going on either with the programming or with how the school is administered, back to this funding of dollars. This, and I've been listening to the news where schools are now trying to figure out a way to incorporate into their application a question that can vaguely or can be obfuscated to ask this question, because they know that if they don't have a diverse student population, that the students will suffer in the long term, as you indicated, when they enter the workforce. To go into the workforce and say, oh, I've never met anyone who is still in the blank. It is both a shame and it also indicates that the school has not prepared that student well enough, and we want them to be successful. We want our students to be successful. If this is the model that we're going to create, we're going to see students who are going to go to private institutions and privately funded institutions. I think it also will impact our instructors, and it is impacting our instructors. I had a conversation yesterday, I was delivering a class on unconscious bias, and the group was adamant, do not record this session, and why? Because some of them were at institutions where the conversation regarding diversity at the inclusion and unconscious bias was forbidden and had unwelcoming consequences. So, you know, I think we're navigating trying to navigate this as carefully as possible, but at the end of the day, I see both students as well as the schools being harmed. And I also see that this becomes now a, every state determines how they want to address this, especially for those state funded schools. Well, that's a great insight. Yeah, David, go ahead. Let's say, Tina, this takes us a little away from affirmative slash remedial action, but talking a little bit about the curriculum, and tied to all of this is this whole myth of indoctrination. That somehow there's woke indoctrination in the schools, and that's been a big thing with Governor DeSantis in Florida. They're going to stop woke indoctrination. But it's really a, it's a misrepresentation of what indoctrination means. I mean, indoctrination means that you are insisting that students accept as truth, something that's professionally contestable, that you have to accept that as truth. That's not the same thing as introducing concepts and opening up a discussion. You know, so long as you leave the opportunity for students to provide an alternative perception, or to challenge whatever you're asserting, even though you might come from a particular political position, that's not indoctrination. So the drumbeat has been that whenever you address particular subjects, that mere fact of addressing the subject is going to somehow, so, so, influentially affect the student's perception that we've got to bar it right from the outset. There's an interesting study with the University of North Carolina, 7,000 students showed that, you know, from the time they started as freshmen to the time they graduated, there actually was pretty little change in their political perception. They didn't suddenly become raging liberals or aggressive conservatives. It didn't happen. They came in with pretty set ideas. But the one thing that did change is they became a little more tolerant of different positions. And that should be a goal. That should be a good thing. So, again, one of the terribly disturbing things that's happened in schools now is I think concepts are being misrepresented. Higher education was to be to help students form critical thinking skills. I did not say, I did not say critical race theory. I said critical thinking skills so that you could hear a commentary put before you, recognize it as satire, recognize it as someone actually presenting information. And you are not supposed to agree with it wholesale. You are supposed to look at it and say, these are pieces that I agree with. These are pieces I don't agree with. I have formed my own opinion. And that narrative seems to be getting lost. It's interesting you mentioned this term indoctrination. I'm very much aware of a school on the West Coast that one of their leaders told a conservative art newspaper, it was a newspaper from the magazine, Project 1619 is indoctrination. And this is one of the reasons why the US is in the position that it's in now. Not maybe, but Project 1619 is leftist indoctrination. And instead, let students read the book. Let them explore the concepts. They can agree, they can disagree. But this opportunity for critical thinking is being set aside. And it makes me wonder, I think young people are vigorous enough that they will find a way they're innovative enough. But if our institutions of higher learning are literally trying to shut down the opportunity to expand and know what it means to be a critical thinker, we're in trouble. Well said, Tina. So much of what we're saying here about basically canceling the truth, canceling the real narrative and just making up a narrative is not going to go over well with the next generation. We've said before in some of our other sessions that this is the generation that does not bow to tyranny. They will find a way to bring the truth forward and to continue in truth. In Florida, you have four HBCUs, four historically black colleges and universities. So in those institutions, well, and obviously other institutions, but I'm speaking specifically about HBCUs because they are majority black and brown students, minority students. These institutions were founded to educate freed slaves because they weren't allowed in mainstream educational institutions. And so we're, you know, you have to consider specifically historically black colleges and universities in a state where black history is being canceled and changed. I can't say canceled or changed. I would have to say canceled and changed. It's very disturbing. And as we've pointed out in this conversation, there's a need for our students in education, in the educational system, in the higher learning context to be able to have a discussion, to get information, to think through it, to have conversations where they can learn from one another. You know, students have different backgrounds. It's just a very disturbing time in history that, you know, diversity initiatives are being canceled.  It's really very scary. You know, my understanding is that at least I believe that in a democracy we need critical thinkers. And we need people that can take in information and assess it and make judgments about it. And, you know, in July 2023, we're going to need more critical thinkers because we're in a period of AI. And AI's ability to present information in very credible ways, to use images, to use voice, to make it seem exactly like I'm saying something in front of you. When I never said that, it'll be almost, it will be indistinguishable. And now it's going to be just a question of, do you know the source? And does that content sound right? Now, is that something that this person would be saying? So I fear that to the degree that we're not asking our students to be critical thinkers, that we're going to have a deficiency in our ability to kind of sort through the information that's coming to us, that's going to come to us in more persuasive and deceptive ways than we've ever imagined. And we really need to be prepared for that. So that's one thing. And the other thing I wanted to mention, picking up on what Rebecca said about history being changed. I don't want to smile because it's kind of horrifying. But in Florida, students now are going to be instructed that they have to be instructed. And if you're going to talk about slavery, you have to talk about the benefits of slavery.  It's like, talk about the skills that you learned as a slave and how that could benefit you. How's it going to benefit you? You're going to go out in the market and get clients now that you've learned a skill. Is that how slavery works? You can start a business. That's not how it works. The idea that somehow you're going to benefit from slavery is it's insulting and it's frightening. And I think that we're telling little kids that. To me, it's unimaginable. Completely, a complete revision. And it also dismisses the work that was done of abolitionists and those who literally wanted to make the truth be known about the horrific images, the horrific lifestyle and the lives that were lost and damaged as a result. For generations, I mean, this is, Chuck said it earlier, not just not for decades, but for centuries. 16, 19 was over 400 years ago when the first enslaved Africans were brought. Went through the transatlantic slave trade and were brought over to America. My original ancestry, I did an ancestry DNA, and my original ancestry is 70% West African, Ghana, and Nigeria, and then a smattering of some East Africa and other places, African countries. And then the map takes us over to Europe. Now, I wasn't there, but I'm pretty sure that this big group of my ancestors didn't go over to Europe voluntarily. They were taken from their home. And I mean, the history of how the slave trade was done, and what happened to those people has affected us all over the world generationally. It is, you know, we've moved backwards with this new legislation. Hearing this, it makes me think about every person of color, those who are of African ancestry, but also our First Nation people who literally were marched from East Coast to West Coast and told to adapt. It also makes me think about those who came in later ways, especially those who came from what we would consider Asian countries, and the treatment. And just literally, this is why I keep saying revisionist history, because it's literally just saying, you know, none of this happened, folks, ignore the man behind the curtain. Everybody was happy, we all got along, and it was this Norman Rockwellian community. But if you read books like The Warmth of Other Sons, or you read about the Red Terror, you know that this was not the case. And to literally hide all of that, every single one of us who's a person of color becomes a hidden figure. Well, and it's like, it's like the saying, if you can read, thank a teacher. And here we're saying, if you have an occupation, or if you, if you have a trade, or if you own a business, thanks slavery. Because yeah, this is how we taught Black people, who by the way already had businesses and everything else over in Africa and their original land. We taught the people over here how to build. The White House was built at the hand of slaves. There's so, you know, so much of our country that was built by the hands of slaves, you know. So yeah, we taught, and I'm speaking in solidarity, but those enslaved Africans were a big part of the system that taught people in America how to build and how to do business. But we're kept from all the benefits, but they were kept out from all the benefits of having, owning a business and building a business and the economic system. And maybe that's a key part of the core connection. You've got hundreds of years of history of non-white Americans being treated incredibly inhumane, brutally inhumane, subhuman. And you've now got the people who are from that dominant group who are not going to be the predominant demographic group in the next 25 years or so, who are saying, we're not going to acknowledge that, we're not going to remediate it, we're not going to correct it. In fact, we're going to exactly, as you said, reverse and revise any stories that are inconsistent with our primacy. You can't go back there. It's not necessarily going back, it's not going forward. It's like, I'm going to hang on to the bitter end. I'm not going to adapt, I'm not going to change, I'm not going to evolve. I kind of like the way things were. I'd like to have more opportunities, but I don't want to let it go. So as we think about what the U.S. Supreme Court has done, I hope that people still think about the value of diversity. And maybe it's going to be a little harder to expose our kids to it based on what's happening in the schools, but that's not 24-7. A lot happens outside the schools. And I hope that if you believe or sense that your kids are not getting the kind of education you'd like them to have, that we can take a little responsibility on themselves to expose our kids to different environments, different populations, because we can do it. It doesn't have to all be on the schools. So on the one hand, let's work hard to make sure schools do recognize the value of diversity and don't let the courts pull us back. But on the other hand, take some responsibility to make sure that we introduce our children to diverse cultures. Exactly. And in our last minute, Rebecca, any last thoughts you'd like to leave us with on this? You can't legislate a mentality. People who believe that other groups of people should be subjugated, we can only fight that. I mean, we can't, apparently, when there's a majority that is in favor of keeping confusion and keeping people separated, we just have to continue to speak out against it. We are in the midst of social revolution. This conversation is not ending. This is just the beginning. What a great way to leave us. Thank you all for joining us. Think Tech Hawaii. Gives us some thought. Share it with the people who matter to you. And remember that in 25 years, we're not going to only be a country of more non-white people than white people. We will be a country in which the proportion of people who are a mixed ethnicity and race and sexual preference and other differences will be far greater. That will be the majority. How do we enable life to be one that respects the humanity of all of us? Thank you all. Think Tech Hawaii. Aloha and be well. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please click the like and subscribe button on YouTube. 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Good morning cyber traders. Welcome back Happy morning on this wonderful Thursday Less than two days after the end of summer, huh? Good to see you Collins. Boom's good to see you mark Deb Lawrence Lee rich everyone. All right. Well, let's uh, let's let's get right into it and talk about What happened yesterday and what we expect going on for the next more two days? Regarding about just remember everybody This week I Warned you a couple of weeks ago. Actually, maybe before even started we expect a lot of you know bumpy roads We're having some great volatility in the market though. I mean the market right now is up about 200 230 points right now But um, we're down we're up. We're down. We're up. There were a couple of good swing trades We're doing a couple of we're doing really good on some metal stocks. I'm still looking to jump back into metals You know, I kind of chased some of them, but always one thing I think we took away big time yesterday in classes. You can't go broke taking a profit Some of us saw some of these stocks that ran up low volume stocks also They run up and then all of a sudden it takes just one guy to dump it and that's it So, um, you know, we got to be very very careful of that and I don't know as any of you guys follow me on on Uh, Instagram or Facebook anyone here follow me on that If you guys are I mean, I mean again a little bit more More aggressive more on uh, you know showing a lot more on instagram. Um, recently I'm going to be doing a quick post uh last night. I just want to do a quick shout out to all my nfl players Yesterday, I was in uh, Fordham University teaching a class for Teaching nfl players retired nfl players to teach them about how to trade in the stock market And I was teaching the basics of the stock market and how it works And he's got you know, listen, there's a lot of there's a lot of people that are that just don't understand how the market works And they're being taught the wrong things and don't understand the fundamentals I mean all the way down to knowing not knowing what the bid and offer is Not even knowing how to read a chart other than you know getting Understanding indicators and book values and everything else other than just knowing how to buy and sell so It's great. And uh, a lot of them are going to be joining us I think starting next week you'll see a lot of A lot of nfl uh players are going to be joining us But uh, I just want to do a shout out to all the guys out there like to thank jack broer for letting me come and speak And uh, it was a great experience. So I'll have a couple of pictures posted up there of uh, of me doing the event with them And there'll be a couple of videos too Just some of the stuff we do here at cyber trade university and you know and and getting back to the Charities what we do at cyber trade university. Just remember we're going to have trades for a cause the six out uh six annual charity I'm going to be there in october 11th And we're going to have them on I think in uh next week. I think uh, they're going to be doing an event on that So listen, it's just it's it's very important.  There's no reason for it It's just you know, it's just terrible and it's it's bad for it's bad for the business. It really is It's it's not that good. All right, so let's talk about what happened yesterday And uh get right into a couple of stocks that did make some nice little moves yesterday I do want to stop all I still want to start off with the tops We'll get we'll get back to this a r a r c i that we're looking at this morning The tops was a really nice move yesterday had a nice little rally. I don't know where it came from but Some of us that came in the middle of the day right around 10 30. This thing just popped from 650 all the way to $8 That one was a pretty decent move for us m r na Another one took a big big hit just a day before from 15 down to 14 So I had a little bit of a comeback Not the greatest but it was okay. The one I'm going to throw back on the watch list. Let's keep an eye on this uh Luke and coffee this stock, uh You know took a big little hit Just went public not too long ago. It's making a nice little move. It was on yesterday's watch list It was really good in the morning where you could have got a 1960 we're into 20 And then and I don't know it might start becoming a swing trade. I mean I had this stock um I I did it as a swing trade I got out of it. Thank god when it started breaking down Around the 24 dollar price range and you know sure enough it went down to 18 good thing We got out of it. Let me tell you that's what makes you a great swing trader You got to be a great day trader first So um and I always say you can always buy things cheaper. You can always buy it cheaper A.k.r.x From yesterday very cheap little stock that uh level one stock everyone could afford that one that one moved pretty nicely EXPR we were trading this in the phase three class my god.  So real was actually pretty good. All right, so that's what basically happened yesterday now once again That's past that's in the archives now Let's talk about what's going on the present because there are a couple of good stocks that are moving I want to start off with the arci Which a lot of us since this morning at eight o'clock have been trading and watching it The stock has some crazy volatility on it, but um, she's gapped up a little bit right here She's got a nice little move. She's only pretty strong up 41% 800,000 shares already traded in pre-market You're getting not a lot of big iceberg orders out there on the level three It's the only thing that really kind of turns me off on it So uh, but because it up it is up big it is going to make the fast to watch list This one is a little bit nicer a little bit more in the expensive side It was the stock took a really nice hit. It's gapped up pretty nicely of 22% 300,000 shares You got a little bit more of a bigger orders out there. You got 2,200 at You know seller at 2410 2700 at 2430.  This one a little bit better with a trend Remember the trend is your friend. You don't want to buck that trend This one a little bit more on the shaky side big spread Which is The most expensive part of the trade You had a little bit of move yesterday.  You could see it was a six dollar stock went to only 21 You know fun stock to trade, but this is no typical beginner stock. All right So I know some of us were looking at it yesterday and I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold your horses Just don't look don't let that $20 stock fool you.  This one also had a really nice rally. She's up a little bit up 7% 270,000 shares traded a lot of orders out there on level three So you could definitely want, you know, you got to remember one of the big things And I thought, you know, it's amazing that getting back to My class that I was teaching at Fordham Fordham University yesterday is that The biggest thing that convinced people, you know, and let me tell you there these players Uh were had a lot of guest speakers came in there And I was kind of like more or less flattered about it But one of the big things that they was sold on and I know that's why a lot of you guys come here Is that when I explained the level three about these orders, they're like It can't be that easy Is it really in a way of is that how the market works by I mean, we all know supplying demand and when you see those orders It kind of makes perfect sense. It's just you know, it's just it's just a start of a foundation Of now starting to build the consistency of it So you got to follow those orders guys and you know, the big things that we're looking for is those big iceberg orders You don't see big iceberg orders. You got to pass on it So we have that as a cst. Okay, we got the we got the okay back on the watch list again That one did pretty well first yesterday But sometimes listen, it's not the easiest day trading stock does have some shakes in it This one has just been on a little bit of a tear Company just went public not too long ago 16 dollar stock already 31 Just constantly just pushing strong strong strong all-time highs what we're looking for so Just don't if you are going to swing trade it don't trade a lot of shares of it because You know when we see stocks go up double like that we get a little nervous But that stock is pretty big pretty big been pretty strong lately Big list by the way G ush another one a little cheaper on the end 16 dollar stock down to three dollars had a nice little move yesterday gapped up again Great orders out there all over the place. You could see that big block orders everyone's trading 10,000 5,000 Look at that level three on the right. So g the g ush is pretty good m f gp Talking about getting decimated. You want to hold over nights? Here you go Back in july 26 wake up the next morning 24 next day 22 Ride it down 18. You're waking up at 13. You still want to hold it knock yourself out Doesn't look too good for it could probably be a good short. I already checked if it's on my short list Look at all those orders as a whole lot more sellers on level three than buyers and f Another one Taking a little bit of a hit here The only good thing about this one is that it's at support levels Abercomby Fitch who would ever thought a big company like this stock is trading at 16 But you know what blows my mind? Really really blows my mind The dollar store Who would ever think the dollar store would be trading at $150 now? We're not going to be trading The uh the dollar store or even or even five Five below. How about that one hundred and twenty three? That was an fi fi v five Five below. I mean 126 dollar stock I mean stick was 145 dollars Just just because they're cheap stores doesn't mean they don't make money.  I was 700 at one point. Love the dollar store so many customers. Yep. Hey, listen You shop there. You don't shop there. It's not it's in your league. It's not in your league I said, you know, it's not my problem problem is that stock is doing pretty well So just congratulations to all the shareholders. I bet those cashiers are loving that stock right now doing a hell of a lot better than target Burlington really what kills me that that's another one. What's that? What's that stock symbol? Was it blin? Yeah, Burlington. Oh Burlington No bridge that that's a different one Burlington Burlington came also came out with good earnings Got the symbol off the top of my head. I don't know. Does anybody else know Burlington co-factory? That one also all all these uh all these stocks are starting to come out with their earnings The family dollar too. That was the one that was the other one. What was the symbol on that one? Is it uh, oh dollar was it? Oh, there it is d l d l tr Is another one gap. They're pretty big all of them are over a hundred dollars crazy There you are. Uh BU That's right mark was a burl Yep, there you go hundred and ninety dollars congratulations I'm crazy Doing better than macy's in target All right, so uh Got it. Well, you got you got you got to love uh corporate america Good for them. Very happy making people a lot of money now go out there and spend it All right. I think we pretty much done right there. I think of the a and f I didn't throw out there, right? The a and f by the way, we're not going to be trading any of those stocks by the way So, uh, yeah, we talked about that one and I I'm still keeping an eye on the go on the metal stock So I'm still putting posh PAS on my watch list and the svn Um svm. I'm sorry now. I sold the svm yesterday Uh because I told you why I sold it, but I might buy it back I might buy it back. Uh, I didn't sell too far away. So I pretty much sold it right here So if I like it, I'll jump in I'll let you guys know it But these are more swing trades out more day trades Who also thought autos uh auto part stores would be trading at 1100. Yeah, could you believe that michael? What's auto zone stock symbol? Auto zone. Did you think of that? Probably trades more than uh companies probably worth more than probably bmw What's the symbol on auto zone was a zone? I think it's zone No, that's not it Is it oh azo? Is that it? Yeah, there you go Had that workout for you Stock trade will have a lot better than uh amazon lately unbelievable Congratulations auto zone All right everybody so It's it's it's great to learn a little bit about the market That's what it's all about and that's why I was there yesterday afforded university teaching nfo players A lot of a lot of people in this world you'd be shocked. Just don't understand how the stock market works and uh You know the big thing that everyone has to realize I think I spoke about this before is that a lot of people get ripped off You know from stock brokers mutual funds just because you got some money You think you trust these people and the big thing my my whole thing about is like listen You could trust them.  Is it good? Is it bad? Is it is it helping the company? Is it going to affect certain companies? You know because we're all traders when it comes down to it You got to learn before you guys before you could earn. All right everyone. So good luck today. Happy trading and uh I'll see you all this afternoon at 2 30. All right. Good luck everyone. Happy trading everybody