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Doing so, said licensed clinical social worker Yessenia O. Aguirre, will help kids reckon with a moment suffused with anxiety.

Decades ago, the Supreme Court justified race-conscious admissions in the language of “diversity,” but the real purpose was always deeper—to reckon with generational denial and to make access real.

"Parks and Rec loved to kind of reckon with the fact that despite the very good intentioned and warm-hearted, generous public servant that was Leslie Knope, and the folks who worked for the city, that the city still existed on indigenous land, and therefore had to account for those violences and that history," Prof Sheppard told the BBC.

Of course Democrats need to reckon with what happened in 2024.

Lexington’s 250th, she told me, “challenges us to grapple with our founding ideals—liberty, representation, and resistance to tyranny—and asks how we’re living up to them today. … True patriotism demands both love of country and the courage to reckon with its flaws.”