“But I fear a constitution that will leave me a second-class citizen.”

“When Roe v. Wade was overturned, I just felt that I had suddenly become a second-class citizen,” she said.

What that says to a kid is, “My parent is working. My parent is on their phone. I am a second-class citizen to that.”

In Israel, he said, he found that as a 23-year-old refugee from the Middle East, he was looked down upon and treated like a second-class citizen by Jews of European origen.

I felt like Black journalist Cinderella, like struggling all those years, feeling like a second-class citizen in media, and then ending up in the room with Oprah and getting the royal treatment and being able to look her in the eye and just tell her, "Thank you for representing for us for so long. Thank you for building your own network."