was surprised not to see Van Jones here. At least as influential as the woman making tea I’ve never heard of.

My father was born in Egypt and came to the United States at age 9. He said he didn’t think of himself as white until he was in his late 20s. He never thought he was “white” in egypt, even though we were jews not arabs. Our family had roots in egypt and palestine going back hundreds of years. Once he got to america,…