 and given us a real mouthful. And so we're anticipating your contribution as well. Thank you so much, Sister Betty, for having me. So I want to begin. I want to read a passage real quick and jump into my discussion. The festivities of this day serve but to impress upon the minds of reflecting men of color a deeper sense of the cruelty, the injustice, and oppression of which they have been the victims. While others rejoice in their deliverance from a foreign yoke,