coequals

“I felt that the most powerful and honest reflection of our collaboration,” Paulus said, was to be “coequals.”

“This historic decision means that for the first time, the descendants of enslaved persons at a major national historic site will be coequals in sharing governing power and responsibility for the very site that enslaved their ancestors,” board chair Eugene Hickok said in a statement at the time.

“Art” is a whole collection of experiences and ideas and principles, and a museum’s digital and physical programming have to operate as coequals.

The summit typically comes last, in part because meeting a U.S. president is viewed as an incentive and a reward, a chance to be seen as coequals on the global stage.

The American attitude, embodied by Mitchell, has been to treat Palestinians and Israelis as coequals in the partition, or peace, process.