[APPLAUSE]
All right, so my name is TC Tolbert,
and I was asked to introduce Black Took Collective.
That doesn't make sense right now, Black Took Collective.
Yeah, that doesn't make sense right now.
So I was sitting up there about five minutes ago.
I had this long introduction and all these things
written and typed everywhere.
And then I just had this moment where
I felt really sad, because I felt like the piece
that we were in, that we were sharing, was coming to an end.
And I was like, this is fucked up, it's going to be over.
And then I have to go back into the world, whatever that is.
And then I remembered something that we had
talked about earlier at lunch.
And something that you asked at the beginning, when
the event happens, when does the event end?
And it's still happening, so that's the thing.
The event's not over.
And what I realized as I was sitting up
there is that you're creating this event,
and we're creating it with you, and there's
a really powerful engagement happening.
And so as I was thinking, what the hell
do I want to say, I just--
I want to say thank you for letting us
in and for neither coddling nor abandoning us.
And that's how that felt to me.