and it's broken it's not it's not a shock is no longer a surprise that they go back to that because they've never been fix even martin luther king's their prison does not create better people but better people so it's a broken can't overcome is when you when you have a felony that you've been convicted of a felony that you've been convicted of you are now a part of the only group in america who legally discriminate so they can deny you access structured to create the high levels of a high volume of receipt of them so there's no surprise there that majority of the people come in contact with a broken system is going up that much more fracture but while those individuals who are in there go back to the reference that was stated in the part one is to rise above your circumstances and not belong to and the like begins to come on so to speak they have a responsibility now to do something totally different to what was ever done before and i tell people in order to have the things tomorrow that others want to have you got to be willing to do them today to others and i will in a do so that means that if you have an aspiration to be an engineer you have aspiration to be a dermatologist you have aspiration to be a lawyer or a psychologist are just a janitor right you have to give up the principles that led to maybe your incarceration so that means you can serve one aspect and simultaneously effectively serve another you can't be a crippling be a surgeon at the same you can't be a disciple and be you know a businessman for you know maybe microsoft at the same time one has to get really has to go away and the one that is that is not affective dest not serving you in a way of righteousness and also to your community that's the one that you need to get away get get out of so what i like comes and you understand that and you begin to put those tools together you have a responsibility to bring that back to those  degree such as myself but i tell people all the time degrees only have your name on them that's your dash dash your akeelah a that means nothing to the rest in terms of society impact in those people need to be impacted that's something that's individual george b serviced with that that opportunity are the end of individuals who are going to be impacted the most people from my community people who look just like me people who are in my gender category are kept you know category people who are more racial category look at the levels of disparity in terms of the dat is not outside the disease is within the disease so the scientists pulls out the vaccination or the cure by examining where the problem you find a solution so when i have to understand that i am the vaccination i am the cure i have got rid of the disease now because i've been isolated like you isolated the cure are ordered out of the disease you take it you extract it and you find it is components in its properties and you understand what it is i've been isolated so those twenty years when i was going away from society from thirty to thirty three i was isolated i was taken away i was extracted from the disease my statement a disease condition and then a cure was found and once you find a cure what do reinserted back into the disease and then you get rid of a slap to come back to my community where i'm meeting somebody who needs of a black man who is standing up on his own two feet doing what he's supposed to be doing there's a little black boy that needs me as an example there's a all or a black man they meet me as an example that's right so i know that i need to be reinserted sort of individuals who are under cover who aren't afraid is they have not yet been cured of their disease that's the reason why they can compass so we need to help these brothers are so we talk about affect and reset a visible part of the effect and we sort of business also go to the brothers who are on the inside who have been on the inside have to listen and is that the things that have built you up to make you who you war where you have some inkling are clear vision of what you want to do when you when he was aspired to give back to society when those those things that i've helped build to develop you in terms of your foundation to read in the going to the gym and working out and having a spiritual community whatever that may be for you happen to help the relationship when you're in  grow all day long and you guys learn each other and you're talking to each other those things you cannot stop doing because of those things that have helped provide you with some clarity of who you are and i develop to develop to who you are and what happens with most of those individuals  population is they return to society and stuff in themselves in a way that has provided them the vigor that they needed at one particular time they don't work out as much they don't read is there any longer they're not they're not attentive in their relationships as much anymore they're not don't want to things that has helped build themselves up so i tell them when you whenever you create a gap whenever you create a void and especially some to that magnitude every void is going to eventually get filled up with something and if you're not conscious  a win is gone is more like it's going to feel with something that's going to be counterproductive so if you want to stop the reset of the way people say well how you do it it's because of the things that has helped build me i still maintain and hold on to them i have a spiritual community life i'm not part of that less than one percent population who are actually i am that gets out and remain muslim right to some people just when they want they want their get a release day and it's time for him to go home they don't take it off they think that is the physical guard that they can and he's all the way to get your attention he's going to bring you back to your messiah he's going to bring you back to the qur'an and if you left it in columbine if you left it at walla walla don't be surprised when you wind up back there because you created this void so this if we want to impact significant numbers are obviously you know continuing on with my education further myself the more you do more you know to more you realize what you don't and therefore you need to so therefore i'm all out i'm never graduated and what i mean but i do have a high school diploma i do have associates degree i'm working on my being a masters at this particular moment but what i mean by never graduate is what's honesty in the real indoctrination of education which means to to to go inside of yourself and pull out your greatness is that our only gradual not graduate graduate means you're done and that's why when you have that hat and is a flat that means you're only building is a foundation is something to build upon so when you put your graduation out and it represents a foundation that's why it's flat up here so i'm only gradually wall i'm getting i'm only going from one level to the next and identify myself in terms of what i need to do in order to continue to improve so as far as my plans i'm right now i'm writing two books at the moment one book i'm writing is on my life story another book i write is called just decompress dealing with the side effects of incarceration is addresses some of the issues that not only clinically but also not only addressing the poster dramatic you know a stress disorder or even a slave disorder it's address a certain things where i understand that mass incarceration impacts all of us you know some people have been first hand participant to the judicial system such as myself but there's other individuals who have been still impacted but on a different spectrum when i go inside of the schools and i actually pupils wear them at the elementary schools i'm at the middle schools or at the high schools i did i asked them about a show of hands by the county  who here know on a personal level and i'm not talking about because you wind up having to go to a doctor visit who know the doctor like some live next door to you or somebody in your family who knows a lawyer in a same aspect who knows majority of the people in the class can't put the hand they can say i know somebody on a personal level so guess what that means that they don't have access to that not only to someone who's who's in who has their particular title so they can aspire to they can see that is realistic in and have resources because that information  the person they have they can extend to them but also they can't see them so there's not a walk in example of how they can get here but what i accept how many of you guys know somebody who's incarcerated been incarcerated majority of the school has goes on and what that tells me is that they have a prime example of how to end up there because majority of the people know somebody who has been there are is there at this particular moment so what we have to do is we have to stand in the gap we have to do the work see most of these individuals who say that they specialize in this and that they might be a pundit on this particular subject but if you haven't is one in in the words of my brother kimani carter was incarcerated and been serving a life sentence and may god willing he'll be he'll be relieved of that bur academia so bringing in a tool together and providing clarity on both ends of the spectrum this is what is very needed so we came because people at a time that real true education least the and you have to understand that my liberation is tied to yours just because i might have some accrued too much i might have a different style of car vehicle didn't next person i might be where some more desirable cold in the next individual those are just more provisions aside it is prison that's all that means personally been near some type of connection then s something that you need to be woken up in in terms of your level of education where your records if your people are being impacted once again we're talking about systems and we're talking about doors something on the level of individuals to help them we have to change the system direct service is cool but if we don't change the system a direct service is not then there's only saving one person we all want and we and we've been indoctrinated in training think like that well if i just impact the same one person and i  e you know a wonderful life no we need to take it further danette because if that's a statement is being made from the last hundred years then we need to take the statement further than we do in the work we need to take it a lot further to now we need to say no we need to change the system so we can change the outcomes of many different lives so when i go asked that question swan a year from now and i actually know some doctors and lawyers to the little kids all the hands is going to go up and i tell the little kids when i come back in twenty years i want to make sure that doctor and a lawyer so smart in no way that you didn't get a chance that's what i want to make sure because a lot of people are out here you give a microphone they know what to do animal heart a hard hat and some books they get dumbfounded they don't want to do the work but if you don't do the work little kids just like myself is going to be in prison and they are making sure that they're developing all sales and if they get you hurt more people you hartley's little kids and we don't i want to make sure the next twenty years that they don't not only know doctors and lawyers that they become those doctors and lawyers or whatever it is that they have aspirations to become have success before you do the work is inside the dictionary that's all the time success comes before work is inside the dictionary outside of that you got a boo to work in order to become so we have to have a understand in a driven platform of what it is that we want to do in terms of various outcomes that we're looking for we have to have we have to have a sit down every voice needs to be heard we can't have one particular group of individuals said well i'm the plan didn't i specialize in say you have the right to be here just as much as i do so we had all be at the table and do our job and i tell everybody if you're given right if you're given right to be great if my creator created me and he's great then he's telling me it's all right for me to be great as well this is your given right you think i'm lying let me give you proof when your mother when your father met your mother and they had and every single one of them had a particular mission majority of them was trying to get down a floating soap so they could fertilized egg and they can get here they were trying to beat you out but then again there's about anywhere from twenty to maybe forty million of them that were just defenders they're called blockers here in this world we call them haters they want to get in the way they want to stagnate progress that was their only mission that was they were trying to go to float into in order to to a fertilized egg just there to stop but you made it through all of that you can you please hundreds of millions of people to get here just to become a carbon copy just to get in line like an assembly line and not do what you does which are designed to do designed to become i got the specialization because i have a particular training up articular tool that you don't have no we all need to come together and utilize whatever strengths that are most high has provided us with in order to make this thing that we called life really happen to really counterproductive you can blame me for going to prison at thirteen but the reality is somebody wasn't doing their job to make it assessable not top one whole system that was created in order to make it assessable for a thirteen year old to go to prison on so many different levels people have flunked out to not do their job because i was in school the teachers didn't do their job just to catch some of the problems i had a home somebody in the household to do their job to catch some of the problems i want to the juvenile justice system somebody there who said i'm specialized i got this and it's a complete overhaul so we need to have the right people at the right table and we need to have the people who really understand who is who is committed to this process and not just involved in this process leading this process what i mean by the next time you  donald trump is now the new president of united states of america and that's because of a system that is now working this is the beauty of islam right here for me reason why because the said to be very to do a full first i have to know what my duties are so that was a first test at the find out what is my responsibility here because he put me here for a reason on this