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101 Detroit Mercy L. Rev. Online J. 1 (2024)

handle is hein.journals/dtmercyl101 and id is 1 raw text is: The Perils and Possibilities for a Multiracial21st Century America ATIBA R. ELLIS* Below is Professor Atiba R. Ellis's keynote address at the 2023 Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, hosted by the University of Detroit Mercy School ofLaw.1 The focus of the 2023 Conference was Democracy and the Common Good. Professor Ellis: Good afternoon. Audience: Good afternoon. Professor Ellis: All right, now we're the Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference. I think we can, in our grand tradition, be in dialogue and be in community with each other. So, in that spirit, I say to you, good afternoon! Audience: Good afternoon! Professor Ellis: Friends. Friends, many of you I know, and I've had the joy of meeting others of you this afternoon and over this wonderful conference. Hello, and I want to start by thanking Professor Wilks for his gracious invitation and thanking the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law for its wonderful hosting of this conference. It's a joy in particular to come back together after the long, several years of struggle over the pandemic and having to engage with each other remotely and in some ways-in ways that have fundamentally changed us, and in some ways, I have to stop even at the beginning and say, and recognize and honor and remember some of us who did not make it with us to * J.D., M.A., Duke University. Laura B. Chisolm Distinguished Research Scholar and Professor of Law at Case Western University School of Law. The author would like to acknowledge the support of the Case Western University School of Law Research Fund for providing support for this paper as well as the research support provided by Margaret Schaller. 1. This transcript has been minimally edited to correct errors by the automated transcription service and to clarify statements in the transcript. Due to audio issues, some audience questions were not transcribed, and are marked as such. Citations are added to the transcript for purposes of publishing. An interactive transcript with audio is accessible at: https://www.rev.com/transcript-editor/shared/uvWxvQ8- Klqlii5RhpAh9wRxSr7E8UbU5TofYuEQpqPB6ddywJU6HJOs75hPNCztJnzE5OCamM zfOowcckJCWaETsM.