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Art brings people together . Right .

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Hi , my name is Major Ariel Green . I

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am the Diversity and Inclusion council

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chair for the Air National Guard

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Greatness Center . What's going on

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today is that it's Black History Month

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and the theme that the Department of

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Defense has set forth is African

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Americans and the arts . So we thought

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it would be perfect to have the

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Benjamin Deep Floyd create a performing

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arts academy here um to showcase and

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share their art and their talents with

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us . There's a lot of things that are

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going on in the world . And one thing

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that can bring us together is art in

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order for someone to feel like they

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belong somewhere , they have to see

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themselves there . And I hope the

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Airmen and the Readiness Center today

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saw themselves in the production .

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We're joined together by music by art .

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We're all just getting to know more

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about each other right then and there

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we're doing diversity and inclusion .