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Now, you may be thinking, Professor Autor has told us a heartwarming tale about the distant past, the recent past, maybe the present, but probably not the future.
It's
present
when the government reminds women with every new anti-choice bill that the contents of her uterus are not her own, or when an ob-gyn says, "While it's safe to have sex during pregnancy, sometimes you never know.
Some men in my parent's community felt that it was unacceptable and dishonorable for a woman to be involved in music and to be so
present
in the media.
At the beginning of each class, the professor would call on somebody to
present
the case.
Alice Walker has said, "Look closely at the
present
you are constructing.
For me, it's kind of a feeling about the fleetingness of the
present
moment, and I wanted to express that.
To help us get our minds around this challenge, I'm going to introduce you to a great thinker, I'm going to
present
a big idea, and I'm going to pose a most consequential question.
Never are we so
present
as when we are in the midst of the great past.
Imagine a scenario where during your regular checkup, your doctor can take a simple, noninvasive urine sample, or other liquid biopsy, and
present
you with the results before you even leave the doctor's office.
And because they're abundantly
present
in just about every bodily fluid, including blood, urine and saliva, they're extremely attractive for noninvasive liquid biopsies.
But you see there, that desire to mitigate the impact of race and racism shows up in how we attempt to manage time, in the ways we narrate history, in the ways we attempt to shove the negative truths of the
present
into the past, in the ways we attempt to argue that the future that we hope for is the
present
in which we're currently living.
So today, I want to offer to you three observations, about the past, the
present
and the future of time, as it relates to the combating of racism and white dominance.
But sometimes, our political conditions are so troubling that we don't know if we're living in the past or we're living in the
present.
But still, let us press our way into the
present.
At present, I would argue that the racial struggles we are experiencing are clashes over time and space.
If the
present
is any indicator, our children will be under-educated, health maladies will take their toll and housing will continue to be unaffordable.
But I'm going to bring it up at the end, and I'm going to
present
a silver lining to fix this mess that we've been in for a very, very long time.
And in Israel, where I come from, the hottest political vision of the
present
is: "Let's build the temple again."
YNH: Yeah, I think that, I don't know about the present, but looking to the future, it's not the Mexicans or Chinese who will take the jobs from the people in Pennsylvania, it's the robots and algorithms.
I'm from Ghana, West Africa, and my question is: I'm wondering how do you
present
and justify the idea of global governance to countries that have been historically disenfranchised by the effects of globalization, and also, if we're talking about global governance, it sounds to me like it will definitely come from a very Westernized idea of what the "global" is supposed to look like.
So how do we
present
and justify that idea of global versus wholly nationalist to people in countries like Ghana and Nigeria and Togo and other countries like that?
That's important because we can't
present
effective arguments if we don't understand where the other side is actually coming from and because it gives them an opportunity to point out flaws in our positions.
For the most part, they inhibit the growth of the bacteria, and they don't care so much which kind of bacteria are
present.
They just don't
present
that often.
When times are difficult, when you're short of money, when you're feeling insecure and vulnerable, it's almost a natural human tendency to turn inwards, to think of your own needs and to discard everybody else's, and perhaps to start to imagine that the past was somehow better than the
present
or the future could ever be.
There'd be balloons, there'd be a student ambassador, there'd be speeches that were read, poetry that was written specifically for the opening, dignitaries would
present
people with certificates, and the whole thing was just a delirious, fun party.
Hope is the virtue of a heart that doesn't lock itself into darkness, that doesn't dwell on the past, does not simply get by in the present, but is able to see a tomorrow.
The words you see and hear in everyday advertising have been crafted to appeal to you and affect your behavior, as have the soundbites and talking points of political campaigns which rarely
present
the most nuanced perspective on the issues.
So mere civility is having the courage to make yourself disagreeable, and to stay that way, but to do so while staying in the room and staying
present
to your opponents.
Don't live in the past, live in the present, and don't make the same mistakes in the future.
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