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Hey Tom! I was in the crowd last night and appreciated your humor while the dress rehearsal went through its hiccups. It was really nice to be spoken to - there are a lot of people on each side of the main crowd section that can't get into the main crowd because of crowd size limits and didn't have a great view, but can hear you.

My question is: what do you wish the public would know/appreciate about these events that goes unnoticed or reported?

Respectfully, I think your book discounts the extent to which some folks were brought to zealotry/certainty by their personal experiences. For example, Aunt Jemima was never popular/liked by black consumers, but it's only recently that detractors had power to push for it to be removed from American branding - whereas in 1991 folks just didn't engage when invited to a breakfast highlighting her. Police brutality was widely discussed/remembered before we had a bunch of cell phone footage revealing it more broadly. Describing it solely as developing through marxism and other critical theory seems to miss part of the origin story.

Have you considered publishing critiques of your book on WBW?

:thumbs up: Please tell them that I said thank you, esp the people calling the show.