Unlearn16: Class is in Session - The One Where I Stitch 'Girl'...That's Not What This Book Is About

00:00:00.000 classes in session hey everybody and welcome to unlearn 16 classes in session guys i brought you

00:00:09.480 on the road with me i brought you on the road with me we're gonna have hot dogs i'm gonna talk

00:00:13.380 about baseball could i find a hot dog vendor no so what did i do well i did the second best i got

00:00:19.560 them from harvey's canadian and it's make they make an excellent hot dog all right well this

00:00:27.380 podcast related to my book. That's not what this book is

00:00:31.200 about. But it's related to probably one of the most

00:00:36.480 pivotal Harvey's hot dog moments in my life. And that is

00:00:42.200 when I learned and I started to play baseball. Now here's the

00:00:45.680 funny part. Please stand by I have to adjust the camera.

00:00:48.360 Here's the funny part. I think playing baseball was

00:00:52.220 accidental. I grew up in a small town in Mansfield and in the winter you learned how to ski and in

00:01:02.180 the summer everybody played baseball. So that's just what it was because that's what it was all

00:01:06.920 to do. Cream soda. Icy. Amazing. All my sugar for the week. All right so I learned how to play

00:01:19.620 baseball in this small town and when i was in this small town uh everybody played hardball why

00:01:25.340 because it was tiny it was like it was 1100 people i don't know how many kids i don't even

00:01:31.740 know where they all came from to be honest with you and we all played on the same baseball team

00:01:36.700 there was something equitable equitable about it out of necessity i didn't even think about that

00:01:44.260 until right this minute think about that sentence there was something about it that was equitable

00:01:51.060 due to necessity harvey's does an excellent hot dog not sponsored all right what does that mean well

00:02:04.900 sometimes changes in society actually i i kind of think all the time big changes in society

00:02:12.900 happen out of the necessity for that change.

00:02:17.080 Not because anybody was looking for big social advancements

00:02:20.320 or massive changes within the world,

00:02:23.540 but because in that moment, we needed it.

00:02:28.780 In that moment, at the end of the day,

00:02:31.080 it couldn't just be an all-boys team.

00:02:32.840 Guess why?

00:02:33.380 Because there wasn't enough. 1.00

00:02:36.740 They needed the girls to play.

00:02:38.480 It kind of reminds me of the movie League of Their Own

00:02:41.080 because it was based on a true story.

00:02:42.900 I mean, I don't think Madonna played in real life.

00:02:44.960 But nonetheless, in League of Their Own, it takes place during World War II,

00:02:50.780 and all of the guys are off at war.

00:02:52.760 They've all been conscripted, so there's no Major League Baseball.

00:02:55.940 So what do they do in order to make money? 0.99

00:02:58.080 Well, they create a women's baseball team.

00:03:02.300 And this women's baseball team initially gets made fun of and all of these things,

00:03:05.780 and then it pushes for social change.

00:03:08.440 when they start to understand these women were excellent ball players but the funny part is

00:03:15.180 it wasn't done to give women a chance it was done because women were the only people there to be

00:03:21.720 able to fill that slot to make them money equity out of necessity so am i comparing my um little 0.98

00:03:30.260 league practices and baseball games to league of their own yeah yeah i am without that little league

00:03:35.780 we don't get to there so here's what happened that was a weird tasting on your ring

00:03:40.740 all right anybody that hates it when people eat and talk at the same time you're gonna hate this

00:03:49.780 episode but i was hungry and it was too windy to go sit by a ball diamond in order to talk to you

00:03:57.300 guys so i got a hot dog and i sat here instead all right so i'm a kid and i learned how to play

00:04:04.020 baseball. And when I'm playing baseball in this small little town and I, you know, get to get

00:04:10.280 pretty good at it, I realize I am good at it. B, it's something I want to continue to do when I

00:04:17.800 move. So I played from grades three to grade six in Mansfield, Mansfield, Ontario, for those who

00:04:23.180 are like, oh my God, there's a Mansfield in my hometown, different Mansfield. And in Mansfield,

00:04:28.620 again very equitable out of that kind of necessity because it was a small town so we played against

00:04:35.000 all these different um clubs or you know little tiny towns all over the place like everett and

00:04:40.840 um alliston or whatever

00:04:43.160 and um when i was done and we were going to move we moved to oshawa we moved to oshawa i just

00:04:52.980 considered of course i would just go to oshawa and i would play in the same league why because

00:04:58.480 why wouldn't i why would i because all i noticed all the girls were playing softball but i'm like

00:05:02.720 why would i play softball when i learned how to play hardball i was a pitcher i was a catcher it

00:05:08.160 was a totally different game and by the by just on a side note this whole creating softball for 0.93

00:05:14.080 women to play doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense to me number one look at the size of my 0.99

00:05:19.680 hand why are you giving me a softball that's 12 inches instead of a hardball that's just stupid 1.00

00:05:25.520 that's just that in my opinion that's sexist in and of itself you give us something that's bigger 0.96

00:05:31.840 for us to be able to throw in wheel to make us worse the sport it's a conspiracy theory i haven't

00:05:37.200 quite worked out yet so nonetheless so uh that's true and i come to oshawa and i'm not going to

00:05:44.960 play softball oh i go to the house league team want to play house league before i play house

00:05:54.000 league here's the interesting part i find out there's a rep team now remember i would have been

00:05:58.400 in grade going into grade seven so 12 years old and at 12 years old girls you know tend to be

00:06:10.480 very they i mean you're you're able to compete with the boys on lots of levels not that all

00:06:16.080 please there's lots of women i know now who can compete with the compete with the boys but

00:06:19.040 But at 12 years old, there's still an even playing field.

00:06:24.480 So I hear about this rep team in Oshawa, Legionnaires, Legion.

00:06:32.380 So I'm going to go play.

00:06:34.120 I'm going to go try out on this rep team. 1.00

00:06:37.700 Only girl, obviously.

00:06:41.200 But in all fairness, I was awesome.

00:06:44.620 I was pitching awesome, throwing guys out at second base.

00:06:49.040 just like straight dingers to the outfield I was doing fantastically and I kept making it past each

00:06:56.220 thing and on the very last round or whatever the coach comes to my mom and says listen

00:07:04.340 here's the truth Joanna is the best player she should be on the team however 1.00

00:07:11.860 we travel all the time we don't have a female coach we don't have female locker rooms we don't 1.00

00:07:22.460 have female like rooms like who's she gonna if she has to stay by herself in a hotel room 1.00

00:07:28.120 that's gonna cost more and and there's nobody there to you know kind of take care of whatever

00:07:34.600 it is that she'd need now we can't facilitate it we don't have the staff to facilitate it and my

00:07:41.480 mom explains that to me. Now you got to remember, this is like, I don't know what year this

00:07:48.880 was, 86, 87. And my mom kind of goes, I get it. Like my mom couldn't go with me to all

00:07:58.160 those tournaments. If she could have, that would have been maybe a bit different. I could

00:08:02.560 have got changed in the car. But here's the thing. I was good. I wasn't like, listen,

00:08:09.740 If I was striking people left, right, and center, they would have found the money.

00:08:14.440 But at the end of the day, I was better than some of the guys, but not by amounts.

00:08:20.480 And there were enough guys, they didn't need me.

00:08:22.640 They didn't need to change.

00:08:23.820 They didn't need to adjust.

00:08:24.940 They didn't need to transform the league in the way that they did it at all.

00:08:30.900 So, they say to my mom, we can't take her.

00:08:33.680 We're really sorry, but there's a house league team.

00:08:36.240 Now, there's a funny part. 0.92

00:08:39.740 we just said okay because in that era but could you imagine saying okay to that kind of garbage

00:08:46.100 now but in that era what are you gonna do what do you how are you supposed to change it right

00:08:53.560 it was already like this huge step that they let me compete it was always this it was like this

00:08:58.100 huge step that they said well she's good enough but we just can't take her those already felt

00:09:02.660 like monumental steps so it didn't feel it didn't it didn't feel like we could push it any further

00:09:12.300 than we already did and there was no necessity they had other guys to fill the spots it was

00:09:19.960 going to be fine it's not like the team was going to have a big problem right so all of that being

00:09:25.040 true it's a very interesting way to look back on it and by the time i go to a house league team

00:09:31.260 shockingly when I moved to Whitby nobody wants me there's softball over there we're like whoa

00:09:38.920 whoa whoa so I go to house league and Whitby in grade nine and they don't or right before grade

00:09:44.900 nine and they don't want to take me and so we have to convince the league that I will try out

00:09:49.960 for house league and if I'm not good enough they can tell me to piss off and if I'm good enough

00:09:54.460 then they can take me. Again, baffles my mind. It's a house league team, right? There's still

00:10:02.380 kids picking their nose in right field on teams like this. It wasn't like high elite baseball.

00:10:08.320 Yet, because I was a girl, I needed to try out. And I tried out, and I was great, and I batted

00:10:16.660 forth and you know whatever all things aside i had to prove myself and this is another sort of

00:10:25.060 shaping moment i think i realized that i had to be better perform better act better do better

00:10:35.620 than guys i was competing against in the exact same sort of level the exact same league to do

00:10:44.660 do the exact same thing. What? I know when you read the chapter, if you read the chapter and I

00:10:54.480 talked about how I got my mom to stitch girl across my leg because I had short hair, nobody 0.99

00:10:58.540 could tell I was a girl kicking their ass, which I really wanted them to know. I really that wanted 0.98

00:11:03.160 them to know. Now, at some point, they start to chat about it. Is that a girl? Is there a girl

00:11:07.620 backcatching? Did a girl just hit a home run? That's kind of the banter. And I kind of like 1.00

00:11:12.860 that. Obviously, my mom loved it because she was a scorekeeper for all those games. So

00:11:17.100 at some point, I just get annoyed that nobody can tell that I'm a girl. Now, here's the funny part.

00:11:24.500 I don't know if it was a identity thing as much as it was you undervalue girls so much

00:11:36.760 that when you find out I'm a girl I need you to know so you know you are wrong your assumptions

00:11:45.680 are wrong your stereotypes are wrong your your whole line of thought is wrong so I don't know if

00:11:53.280 those were the baby times when I'm like I really want to make sure that people know who I am

00:11:58.780 not just because I need to be right like do you understand the difference I don't know if I'm

00:12:04.120 explaining it well to understand the difference between wanting to be secure in an identity and

00:12:09.600 who you are and your sex being a part of that because I don't know if I ever really cared 0.99

00:12:16.040 but I needed them to know because they were undervaluing and under like sidelining girl

00:12:24.780 after girl after girl and I needed them to know that I I might have tricked them with my short

00:12:29.000 haircut and once you find out don't just give me accolades don't just give me respect 0.51

00:12:36.120 give respect to girls stop keeping them out right but again at the time none of this was conscious

00:12:50.360 none of it was i wasn't self-aware at 14. i don't even know if i consider myself a

00:12:57.240 feminist at 14. I just knew what I liked to do. And I wanted to do it wanting people to get the

00:13:02.320 hell out of my way who said that I couldn't do it. That's it. But I don't think I had it wrapped

00:13:09.580 in my head about that I shouldn't do it or that I couldn't do it. But then my head goes back to

00:13:16.240 equity out of necessity. And it's the same idea. I mean, going back to the world wars, right? It's

00:13:22.100 same thing that allowed that instigated that that gave the space for women to to step out of the 1.00

00:13:29.220 house into roles of bankers and machinists and welders and builders and bankers it and and we

00:13:37.300 stepped into these roles and we did them and we did them incredibly well in a time of necessity

00:13:45.300 after world war one we kind of handed it all back and we went back into the kitchen for 0.59

00:13:49.540 the most part after world war ii women are like what well if we can do everything how have you 0.99

00:13:56.740 been keeping us out for so long how have you been telling us what our place is for so long 0.99

00:14:03.780 and again equity driven by necessity same with the right to vote a lot of people i know it's

00:14:11.380 turning into a history class but i can't help myself i'm a history teacher guys right to vote

00:14:15.700 you think the right to vote was given to be nice to be fair to be equitable in canada

00:14:28.340 women's right to vote was given in order to help borden our prime minister at the time

00:14:35.060 pass a conscription law because he promised he wasn't going to conscript anybody so he wanted to

00:14:40.980 have a referendum you wanted to have another vote in the military service act i can't remember

00:14:45.220 selective service act and he wanted to have a vote and what he did is he gave women the right to vote

00:14:51.460 in place of their husband brother father equity out of necessity and that was used to manipulate

00:15:00.980 that was used because if you don't if you don't conscript then you're then all of your family

00:15:06.180 that you're voting for that is stuck overseas well they're never coming home because you're

00:15:10.500 not getting more more guys to sign up we're not forcing more guys to sign up um and again

00:15:17.380 that sort of then translates into a woman's right to vote so all of these moments that we've had in

00:15:24.580 our lives where we think it is about a time it's a social justice moment it usually comes down to

00:15:34.100 we give a little bit of equity due to necessity i'm even going to say that and this is going to

00:15:39.460 to blow people's minds. I'm even going to say that about the civil war in the United States.

00:15:47.920 Wait for it. I'll bring it back to my book in a second, guys. Just sit down and enjoy it.

00:15:52.720 Think about it. People talk about the Emancipation Proclamation Act of 1863,

00:15:58.880 like Lincoln wanted to free all the slaves. That is not what the Emancipation Proclamation did.

00:16:06.560 the Emancipation Proclamation Act

00:16:09.580 ooh, motorcycles

00:16:11.240 the Emancipation Proclamation Act

00:16:14.580 wanted to 0.96

00:16:16.440 release

00:16:18.860 please stand by

00:16:20.600 beside me

00:16:24.600 as I'm talking in my car

00:16:26.180 two very loud motorcycles

00:16:28.100 just want to sit right beside my open window 0.83

00:16:30.400 and chat

00:16:32.200 now

00:16:33.440 i could think this is directed toward me or i could just think that they have absolutely no

00:16:43.120 idea of any space around them and now they're going to pass off all right fascinating absolutely

00:16:52.820 fascinating nonetheless emancipation proclamation act of 1863 here's how it works oh that was

00:16:59.680 really cute i think one guy was dropping off his friend at his house now he's parking his bike

00:17:08.200 that's what that was one old guy dropped another old guy off like they were riding bikes together

00:17:14.440 and dropped him off and now he's parking his bike going inside that's so nice okay so emancipation

00:17:21.780 Proclamation Act of 1863, doesn't free all the slaves. It frees slaves in areas of rebellion,

00:17:30.100 which means the South, because the South was rebelling, as long as they fought for the Union.

00:17:36.220 Take that in for a second. It freed the slaves in areas of rebellion, as long as the freed slave

00:17:46.600 fought for the union equity based on necessity one of lincoln's favorite famous lines and one

00:17:57.600 of the lines that i i think is probably one of my most used out of historical text is i'd like to

00:18:05.180 have god on my side but i must have kentucky equity based on necessity meaning he didn't

00:18:12.780 free all the slaves on the front end. Why? Because there were border states like Maryland and Kentucky

00:18:19.040 fighting on the side of the Union. You want proof that that war wasn't initially just designed to

00:18:26.420 fight and eradicate slavery? Understand that Maryland and Kentucky, both slave states,

00:18:32.340 fought on the side of the union. I digress. Necessity and equity based on necessity.

00:18:42.080 So we go back to my baseball days, right? And over the years, I had to prove myself again and again

00:18:49.980 and again and again to kids that wanted to charge me at home plate and they accidentally tripped

00:18:55.760 over my leg, broke their collarbone. Sometimes karma instantaneous. Again and again and again,

00:19:05.160 guys that pitched a little too hard high on the inside just to test my boundaries again and again

00:19:11.140 and again. And what I think that did for me, again, subconsciously, because I think if anybody

00:19:18.540 had articulated this roadblock, this obstacle, it would have felt insurmountable. Do you know

00:19:25.740 know what I mean by that? And I'm going to get to teaching in a second, because I think sometimes

00:19:30.760 we tell kids the things they are facing, the things they are up against, and we talk about

00:19:38.340 them so much that we give the obstacle more power than the individual to overcome it.

00:19:45.480 And that can be true in athletics. That can be true in academics. That can be true with learning

00:19:51.460 disabilities or different learning abilities. That can be true in your workplace. That can be

00:19:57.920 true with the money that you make. All of these things are ways of saying, there's the obstacle

00:20:03.440 dead ahead, whatever that is. And whether it's because of discrimination and oppression, whether

00:20:10.900 that's because of stereotype, whether that's an economic barrier, whether that's a socially

00:20:16.120 constructed barrier, whatever the reason is, that thing has a lot of power. And if we give that too

00:20:23.420 much power, we don't even try to climb it. So as a kid, I wasn't aware. I really wasn't. I was aware

00:20:30.720 of the fact that I wanted to play baseball. That's it. I was aware that, and just out of curiosity,

00:20:40.520 side note, these onion rings taste funny. I think I should probably stop eating them.

00:20:44.200 maybe old Greece but I was aware I wasn't aware that it was this insurmountable obstacle I just 0.89

00:20:51.560 wanted to play baseball and I had a mom and I had a dad my dad also came to every single baseball 0.52

00:20:57.820 game now funnily enough every time I finished a game with my dad um he'd see every game he'd sit

00:21:03.840 I'd sit in the car he'd drive me home even if my mom went as well he'd always give me Wrigley's

00:21:09.140 uh peppermint gum no spearmint what's the green one so i have a very specific memory

00:21:17.300 receptor for that kind of smell of gum he usually got me the double pack and all the way home he

00:21:21.780 told me all the ways i could have played the game better which hilarious but nonetheless so

00:21:29.300 when i was playing baseball all i could think of was being a good baseball player and playing with

00:21:36.420 the people i was playing with i didn't think about it being an insurmountable obstacle my mom never

00:21:42.580 made me feel that way my dad as hell didn't make me feel that way at all because it was never he

00:21:48.100 never compared me to a single other person which was also interesting he never said that guy hit

00:21:52.820 better than you or that guy did something you didn't do or whatever you he it was always about

00:21:57.300 me you know lower your left shoulder when you're hitting or you pulled your head up off the ball

00:22:03.140 or when you threw you didn't put your hips whatever whatever the case may be he made it

00:22:07.940 very me specific so when i had these support systems and and subtle support systems that

00:22:14.260 didn't highlight the obstacle just highlighted my capacity and their expectation of me guess what

00:22:20.820 i just continued to play and then i started thinking about how we have to face and how kids

00:22:28.360 today in the classroom, whether it be athletics, because I am a coach, or whether it be in the

00:22:33.640 classroom, and how kids face obstacle after obstacle. You can't not, okay? I faced one

00:22:43.540 because of my sex, because I was a girl playing baseball. But you can't not face those obstacles.

00:22:51.480 But if you put so much power in the obstacle itself, and you make it impenetrable, you make it impossible to overcome, these kids will just put down the bat, put down the ball, and go home.

00:23:05.480 Why would they even try?

00:23:08.440 Now, I do think when it comes to the world of academics, kids can face bigger obstacles, let's say, than the levels of sexism I faced within baseball.

00:23:18.480 but let's not undervalue before we get to the academic limitations our education system has

00:23:27.280 historically been racist sexist classist right there are these external factors we call on boys

00:23:37.380 more girls fit the system more guys have adhd more so we kick them out of class um if you're working

00:23:43.720 a part-time job you get lower marks but yet you still are putting in the same effort nobody's

00:23:48.320 gauging all of those differences right so all of those affect a kid before they can even decide

00:23:56.360 before they can even see what their math mark would have been right and then you add on the

00:24:03.920 other layer the extra obstacle of learning differences because every kid will learn

00:24:09.620 differently every kid will have their obstacle and I think what the education system has done

00:24:14.540 with the best of intent, but I think to a worse end game is they've gotten really good at

00:24:24.540 identifying the obstacle and trying not to make the kid feel bad for having to carry that obstacle

00:24:31.580 with them, right? Let's say they find out you're dyslexic. Okay. I think our educational system

00:24:38.260 has done a lot better at saying and having tests and pointing out, okay, that's your thing. You

00:24:43.700 have that thing he's going out with his friends some more but what they also want to point out

00:24:53.780 they have that thing but what they they also want to put out point out is all these different

00:24:59.540 modifications we can make to curriculum in the classroom to not make you feel bad about your

00:25:04.580 thing about your limitation right we don't want to make you feel bad about dyslexia i'm with them

00:25:10.820 i don't want anybody to feel bad about the things that they need to overcome here's my problem

00:25:16.100 i don't think a lot of educational systems um and and some of this well most of it has nothing to

00:25:21.940 do with the teachers in the classroom has to do is throwing 35 kids in a public school classroom

00:25:25.700 and expecting them to teach to 10 different ieps individual education plans i think the problem is

00:25:32.660 instead of figuring out ways for them to overcome we figured out ways to modify the curriculum

00:25:40.820 So they never have to climb the wall at all.

00:25:45.020 There I have a problem.

00:25:47.000 I have a huge problem with identifying an obstacle and then telling the kid it's impenetrable.

00:25:55.400 Or the adult.

00:25:56.900 Or the baseball player.

00:25:59.300 There I have an issue.

00:26:01.900 All these kids have obstacles, I promise you.

00:26:07.320 Some of them are in phys ed, some of them are in math, some of them are in art, some of them are music.

00:26:11.100 It doesn't really matter.

00:26:12.240 I am tone deaf.

00:26:13.340 If you put me in a singing class, I don't have the chops.

00:26:18.260 Do you understand?

00:26:18.920 I just don't have it.

00:26:20.220 It's something that I don't, I can't hear.

00:26:24.360 Does that mean I shouldn't sing?

00:26:26.700 Maybe not too loudly.

00:26:27.820 I understand that.

00:26:29.840 Does that mean I shouldn't sing?

00:26:31.100 does that mean that the person that can sing should be undervalued and I should just give

00:26:38.420 it the college try but in math class the kid that can just do math they get the 98 and the kid that

00:26:47.100 doesn't understand it that can't see it that can't understand it that doesn't have that innate 0.54

00:26:51.440 capacity and they get a 52 are they supposed to feel like crap for the rest of their days 0.98

00:26:58.320 because the kid that doesn't sing, it's like, oh, well, you don't sing. You see my problem? 0.98

00:27:04.660 We put all the emphasis on specific aspects of the education system and the core courses,

00:27:13.920 English, math, science, maybe history, possibly, right? But if you're good at English, math,

00:27:20.600 and science, you can write your own ticket. Everybody thinks you're a genius. We don't

00:27:24.420 care if you can't make a three free throw shot. We don't care if you can't draw a portrait. We

00:27:30.460 don't care if you can't write a composition or sing in key. We don't care about any of those

00:27:36.140 things because we've decided that those attributes, that those skills don't have the same value as

00:27:42.720 doing a quadratic equation. I am not here to minimize the value of a quadratic equation. I

00:27:47.820 am here to escalate the value of all those other things I just spoke about. And I'm also here to

00:27:52.680 say that I think students should have to be more holistic learners how about for a minute because

00:28:01.140 I get math and I can get my 90 pretty easily and the kid that's sitting beside me struggling and

00:28:07.820 struggling to get a 52 and feels like garbage about himself that same kid should sit in a in

00:28:13.340 a music class with me and as they belt out perfect you know harmonies and I struggle

00:28:20.120 we can see no one is perfect everybody struggles everybody has obstacles it is our job to try to

00:28:29.280 overcome them and I'll go you one step further possibly our job in that classroom as teachers

00:28:34.880 and as students to help each other climb over to help each other get over the obstacle

00:28:42.180 because if we don't do that, if we don't push each other, number one, we only elevate certain

00:28:50.320 types of people in this world. And number one, that's objectively, absolutely wrong,

00:28:56.780 short-sighted, limited, embarrassing. So what we need to do is understand and name.

00:29:05.520 What is your obstacle? Music, what is your obstacle? Jim, what is your obstacle? Math,

00:29:11.380 What is your obstacle? Reading? Cool. Let's put them all on the table. Let's tackle them together.

00:29:19.000 Let's understand that the obstacle doesn't get to define you, that the limitation doesn't get to

00:29:24.320 define you. And I'll tell you this, the point about having different learning styles and learning

00:29:31.020 plans within the classroom, the point of having a diversity of thought and teaching styles in the

00:29:36.760 classroom is it should be equity based on necessity. Why? Because what I promise you,

00:29:44.340 if we leave those kids behind, and we're seeing this happen in real time right now,

00:29:48.500 if we leave those kids behind, the kids that couldn't get over the obstacle because we didn't

00:29:53.040 identify equity within the classroom in order to reach them and help them, if we don't identify

00:29:58.420 that and we don't help them, the entire society begins to shake. It begins to falter. It is

00:30:05.680 limited and we lose perspective of genius in those individuals because we never afforded them

00:30:14.880 the opportunity to explore what they are great at and I promise you everybody is great at something

00:30:21.660 we just need to figure out what that is so open the doors we need equity we need it it is necessary

00:30:32.060 It is how we build a holistic, strong, powerful society.

00:30:37.340 We don't just ignore the things that we're not good at.

00:30:40.240 We get better at them.

00:30:41.460 I might not ever be a great singer, but damn it, one time, in one place, in one song, I will hit that note.

00:30:47.300 Probably by accident. 0.78

00:30:48.900 But nonetheless, we need, in the time of need, we look to equity.

00:30:58.360 And that will bring us to a better end.

00:31:01.320 that will help individuals, but on the whole, it's going to help the team. It's going to help

00:31:06.940 the society. It's going to help us progress faster than we've ever progressed before. There

00:31:12.440 is a goal in the equity out of necessity. Don't think that diversity and equity are just to be

00:31:20.780 nice. No, no, no, no. Diversity and equity are smart plays out of necessity. You want to know

00:31:29.840 who drops out of school the quickest genius how in the hell is that true thank you guys so much

00:31:38.240 for hanging out until next time i will see you next tuesday same bat time same bat channel

00:31:45.740 have a great day guys dismissed

Unlearn16: Class is in Session - June 21, 2025

The One Where I Stitch 'Girl'...That's Not What This Book Is About

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