I am what people would call a former leftist, and now a political commentator at Prager U. When I was 17 years old, I started working for the organization my mother works at. I was going around to different middle and high schools, and finding kids that were leaning left, and I sort of gave them a shove in that direction, and started teaching all different sorts of socialist ideology, and feminism, and critical race theory, before I even knew it was critical race theory.

I felt just unhappy in my life and I didn't know why. Every day I would go into work, and you would hear nothing but hate, from people who claim to be tolerant.

A big part of what made me question it, was going into work and, hearing a lot of hate towards white people. I'm half black, and I was raised by the white side of my family, so it was a hard thing to go into work every day, and hear from all these different people, many of whom were white, that they hated white people, and just crazy, blatantly racist things. I went to the VP and I said, "I don't understand why you feel this way about white people, you have people at this organization who are white, working with you, should I feel that way about the family that's raised me."

And he said, "You don't understand how oppressed you really are, you should be angry, and I'm not here to make you feel better about your family."

That was when I was like, maybe I'm not on the right side of history.

It was a big relief to realize that people were not out to get me.

I grew up in a very conservative area. I was surrounded by people who were white and conservative, and never had any problems, but the ideology was so deep set in my mind, that you couldn't have told me that there wasn't racism and patriarchy around me.

So to realize that the systems and institutions in this country are actually founded to make me successful, that was such a big relief that comes with conservatism, and being able to know that you are fully accountable for how successful you are.