In Palantir, I saw everything that makes America special, and I also felt a deep sense that our good fortune imposes a responsibility to ourselves and the rest of the world.

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"I was really inspired by everything I saw there, " he said.

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Ms. JACKIE SALLOUM (Director, "Slingshot Hip-Hop"): Growing up in this country as an Arab-American was pretty challenging when I was younger because, you know, everything I saw on television was really negative.

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There's one particular story I want to tell because this was the last visit that I had and I think it's representative of everything that I saw and heard today.

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And then, I saw something that put everything right back into perspective for me.

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So when I saw that element continuing to resurface in almost everything I was writing, I have to find a way to be at peace with the fact that that was going to be smoke in the room of every song that I was working on unless I somehow acknowledged it.

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