i want to speak to you today on what the new jim crow is how it manifests in wash the new jim crow is basically explained in the job capturing it in her introduction she says this on the first page and on the second she says that the more things change the more they remain the same skipping down a little bit extraordinary percentage of black mini united states are legally barred from voting today just as they have been throughout most of american history they are also the subject they are also subject to legalize descript legalized discrimination in employment housing education public benefits jury service just as their parents grandparents and great grandparents once were she says and i'm almost done here on page two what has changed since to collapse a jim crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than the language we used to justify in the era of color blindness it is no longer socially permissible to use race explicitly as a justification for discrimination exclusion and social skin tips so we  rather they rely on race we use our criminal justice system to label people of color are criminals and then engage in all of the practices we supposedly left behind and so reads and formal criminal of the criminal attorney and she does a good job explaining that whereas we have gone from a system of jim crow legal segregation we have now come into a system of the mass incarceration of people of darker color a given that white his color is probably not  but when it comes to african americans the numbers ostia and they have very bad they're more african americans incarcerated or on parole or some how under the criminal has exploded even in this state we have more people incarcerated in our country then as i understand any other industrialized nation in the world and in fact we are like a car straight ahead two times the raid of the number two place is what i understand that is a big problem is a big problem appears to me that what has happened just to me a little side note for those that are trying to get their arms around all of this is that african american labor was highly desired in the south  early on in the founding of the country if not before and the cotton gin made that even more a situation of demand people made a lot of money off of african american labor going down south af american labor was not so desired in north in the west and african americans after the civil war had to get out of the south they had to get out of the south because they were being  and especially after reconstruction was over they were been terrorized and you nice discover was participating in it by will from the glatt and then by participating in discriminating against african americans in d c and other places where the united states government some of the congress and the president had directed and when african americans moved north and warehoused in that red line to african americans and they had to be in certain areas where the labor just in their presence was really just tolerated josh moved away and it was always difficult for them to make mom my own grandmother did the work that so many african americans did the south cleaned houses my grandfather's always had a very difficult time keeping the job and then down came the cotton picker around one thousand eight hundred or so because so many blacks were leaving now the labor was not even needed down south as much still ahead still ahead jim crow when it ended around the one nine hundred sixty s african americans were basically kind of left in a situation where their last tire first fired and in the extremely difficult situation and it appears that with the country did this basically work out a situation in which they could be on some kind of governmental assistance or they got set up for the war on drugs and to keep the war on drugs big big society had to find something we just found out with all of them in diaries were released but two years ago and it's not just me i first heard this from a white man former chief stamper said directly i was in i was in a room he said he said nixon came up with a plan because he felt like african americans were the problem and what he did is the world drugs and this is not you don't do and other things didn't work to incarcerate african americans as a means of social control and they could also dip into marijuana and use it to make sure that the jails are full when they did specify african americans were going to be a problem on the ground but are going to demand chiles contracts fair housing and all of those things so we have now come to the age of mass the yes incarceration about african americans and marijuana is still classified as the most dangerous in that class of the most dangerous drugs and thank goodness the state of washington has done what it  edges down to a few minutes them how does that problem manifest in the state of washington i say in my book shoestrings in bootstraps to develop a plan for black america i say this it was not clear before to if it was not clear before two thousand and six it surely became so by the close of it the us has become the most incarcerated despised country in the world black cool legal leaders must lead an effort to change the structure funneling black males particularly to the criminal justice system and then diminishing their opportunities further from the point of their first brush with the law the fact that the us is the most incarcerate industrialized society is not a good thing and has been traumatic on the black community countries arrive at a place now where two point two million citizens are incarcerated as of this writing this is really in two thousand and eight about thirty percent of this number are african americans blacks than it three times more represented in the criminal justice system than their numbers in the population tellingly there are almost two times more black males in prison in a college in the state of washington the numbers approaching three times more black males incarcerated than in college in washington state blacks are incarcerated at five to eight times their percentage in the population this means that washington my state is worst in mississippi and how to incarcerate african americans i don't have to lay which to move the masses especially whites to care enough about this i want you to know that the african american community in pain we are struggling we are your brother's assistance the social problem is being handled in the criminal justice system in our numbers over representation in the criminal justice system is worst in mississippi's whenever i'm on a yemen attorney as well so whenever i have been on judicial selection panels i always ask the judges this i ask them do you know the numbers and they don't know why they say they don't know and then when i get them the admit that we're two times worse to mississippi and that mississippi's black populations about thirty percent of the population and then if they were ninety percent of the criminal justice system that still be three to one here  with three and a half percent of population there were between twenty two and twenty eight percent of those incarcerated that's five and a half to eight times the numbers that's five and a half to eight times our percentage in the population and when i get them to think about this they go that's really something but i did they don't cry like that crap what are we going to do about this i need you to cry and they didn't care about it because we're brothers and sisters and to do something about it if white people in the state of washington don't solve this it will not be solved others have to and really have to mix it to bring this to you but you all have to care number two it is a great thing to support this effort this new no new jim crow movement may i want to make sure i get the name right it's no new jim crow seattle campaign i want you to support that but there's another thing i want to ask you before i take m african americans need development and that's why i wrote this book shoestrings and bootstraps i was asked to write it by as to jeffrey the black leaders are not really doing anything in a united way they need people on the outside to call them together to help them in the system with the development plan to help their own people contracted jobs and in every spiritual political social medical educational artistic thing around that that they need if african americans get help getting out of prison and the criminal justice system but are not given help to get the contracts and jobs that they need they're going to go right back into prison because that was actually the problem the lack of the demand for their labor marking them and put them in a situation where they're the victims of crime and and and poverty but help them with the development plan so that they can have the contracts and jobs that allow them an honorable life of a thank you for here in this want to speak very briefly to the topic that has been given to me and that is the effect of the war on drugs on the spiritual life of the community i find that of a very difficult topic to address  being being that i'm sure that there are people of many faiths here in some of no faith in terms of religion who are here today but i do want to speak to it on the issue from the perspective of the african american experience with this being black history month and really looking at the role that this war on drugs has this way that the wounds of a nation begins in the homes of its people the ruins of a nation begins in the homes of its people nixon and it became more refined and defined under the reagan era and really dismantled the black community network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny whatever is done directly affects all in directly and if that is the case then i can never be without ought to be until you are what you ought to be and you can never be what you are to be until i am what i want to be and with that with that being said it really implies there that we all in the same goal and if we're going to get anywhere as as a nation as a community as as people of various colors we've got to realize that w inescapably tied together and that whatever happens in the black community affects those in the asian community i would never happens in the asian community affects those in in the white community and seattle is one of the most beautiful place he says when it comes to the diversity of a city seattle has great potential we have great potential in the sense that and saying in the words of their own negro spiritual free at last free at last he was in visioning a beloved community that was composed of many people who love the fabric of this community is is into again i believe is a book that i need to read every year but it's one of those books that i think can serve as a tipping point if you will for for justice  tipping point against the war on drugs and and it serves as a a magnum opus of a book that could few this movement that is being livid and tired of the no new jim crow in referring to president reagan's war on drugs she stated that he declared the drug war primarily for reasons of politics racial politics numerous historians and politicians and political scientists have documented that the war on drugs was part of a grand republican party strategy known as the southern strategy of using racially coded get tough appeals on issues of crime and welfare to appeal to poor and working class whites particularly in the south who were resentful of anxious about and threatened by many of the gains of the african americans of african americans in the civil rights movement so what this this jim crow movement is this new jim crow movement seeks to do is to undo what the civil rights movement accomplish that many caucasians will not get arrested for they would just get a pat on the hand and sent back home so this this new jim crow movement of the community and so we see that happening again we see that happening again but i act i would argue today that you know something someone is ask  question you know is the black church african american church did i get a call one day from a man who was interviewing pastors in churches all of the east coast so he thought he'd call one of the churches here in seattle so he called mount zion and he asked me you know what what is the black church doing in seattle what is the african american church doing most important institution in african american community when we look at the major social movements that have taken place in the black community the channel through which these movements have occurred has been to the african american church the civil rights movement serves as a prime example in one nine hundred fifty five under the leadership of dr martin luther king jr who was serving as the and this movement it catapulted dr king into the limelight of america and that the african american church into the mainstream of america but it served as a major victory of a can americans and all people for that matter but i added levi contend that the black church after american church has always been at the hands of every social and spiritual movement in the community and i think that it still has a major role to play i think sometimes in some circles the black churches has been distracted in in the sense that it's become more internally focus then extra only focus but i do believe that when we look at the spiritual life of the community it has to begin  from a place of faith it has to begin from a foundation of faith and we have seen this throughout throughout the history of the african american experience and even in my home life that i think i have about fourteen cousins who were in their thirty's and all of them have been in and out of prison there has been a revolving door so this this hits me personally  all of them have been in and out of prison and i've often asked myself what can i do the key them from going back in the prison and i've taken a personal commit bit to talking to them and praying with them and helping them mentally and encouraging them in such way where they won't feel the need as i think sometimes it creates a crutch in our communities where  and feel like well since i can't find a job anywhere i can't find any place to stay all of the doors are closed to me i might as we'll go back into prison i've heard that being stated by young men who have who quite angry they're frustrated and when you have an angry black man it's dangerous it's dangerous in any anyone who doors are close to them and they're not allowed to get a job they're not allowed to have a clue it's the state and even if they try to find their this spouse of the children and they stay with this spouse get back with a spouse even their fault living situation is jeopardized because they have someone who is who is who's been in prison so it did it really is a serious issue but i believe as one right is put it that there once was a time when the communities that we lived in grew up in served served in a place that was a more into better that taught us right from wrong and how to respect others a community  made up of served mothers and fathers who watched over us when we were in the street playing and if they saw us getting in trouble and into mr if they would not hesitate to correct us when we return home minute they would have already called up parents to let them know what we had done in other words that i think that we need to adopt a village mentality you know it takes a village to raise a child i think we need to go back to that village mentality that we should treat everybody elderly person like they're our grandparents treat every challenge street like they're your children practice hospitality in your neighborhood get to know who your neighbor your next door neighbors are we really need to restore that sense of community and that since a village  drugs and its role in militarizing the border because that's another front line in the war on drugs that we don't often talk about or think about but a robin williams reminded us you know we're all tied together and what's happening here on with the war on drugs is affecting what's happening in mexico and the war on drugs as well and finally i want to talk a little bit about some of the challenges i see in doing both immigrant advocacy and advocacy to end the war on drugs so all of that and eight minutes here we go and so you know historically both immigration laws and drug laws of criminalized every day behavior and are selectively enforced of course and target only certain populations for doing these things you know we've all heard the statistics but one of them that always strikes me is that people of color comprise thirteen percent of drug users but seventy eight percent of drug convictions and one nine hundred eighty eight as part of the war on drugs congress created a new category within the immigration law and this category was labeled the aggravated felon and so basically any non citizen convicted of certain drug offenses and that became a basis for automatic deportation so if you had a certain drug offense which includes possession something as low as possession of marijuana up through drug trafficking you are automatically considered what congress decided to call an aggravated felon and that meant that you were automatically subject to deportation so now being caught up in the criminal justice system because of the drug war meant being funneled directly to the immigration system and deported because of this change in the immigration laws drug offenses to become one of the main category for deportations so in two thousand and ten twenty five percent of all deportations of people with criminal records were for drug charges and again the vast majority were for people who were arrested for possession of marijuana people facing deportation are held in for profit detention centers we have one here in washington state and to come at the northwest attention center down  i said in tacoma there people are held miles away from their family members without due process without a right to an attorney unlike the criminal system which has its own serious flaws but still at this point provides public defenders in the immigration system once you're in deportation proceedings you're not entitled to an attorney you can have an attorney if you can afford them but the government is not going to assign you one and so people are facing deportation against trained government prosecutors representing themselves and often it's for drug convictions as i said that happened in many cases decades ago and so it doesn't matter you know that this thing happened when you're nineteen or twenty and getting your life together now you're thirty five forty got pulled over for a broken taillight oh wait you've got that old drug conviction that can be enough to put you in deportation proceedings and so it's kind of this like no forgiveness policy because of this category of the aggravated felony and of course like everything else in the criminal justice system an immigration system this has a disproportionate impact on black communities and on black immigrants and i used to work in new york and there dominican immigrants and haitian immigrants were the hardest hit by deportation because they've been marked for over policing by the new n y p d both for their blackness and then subject to deportation because of their immigration status and so that these are the communities we are seeing that were hardest hit by the deportations we're also seeing at the same time changes in the federal prison system you know so this is apart from the state and county prison systems the federal prison system because of these huge numbers of deportations and so you know under  first term in office the some more deportations and under any previous presidential administration ever you know four hundred thousand last year alone and so what happens people are deported this is their home they want to get back to their families and so they try to come back and the act of being here  is not a crime but the act of illegal reentry as it's termed is considered a misdemeanor and in some time time in some cases a felony if the reason you got accorded was a drug conviction and so people are a entering the country being caught at the border and then being sent to federal prison immigration related crimes the crime of trying to get back to their families and twenty nine percent are sentence for drug crimes course that doesn't mean that the drug war is dying down in means of prison industrial complex is really working to diversify and it really disturbing and i want to talk a little bit about the war on drugs and its role in militarizing the border and the war on drugs is deeply related to this kind of military buildup we've seen specifically on the southern border although we're not exempt to that up here obama might have announced at the framing of the war on drugs is a no is over you know we're not we're not going to do that anymore in reality it's escalated particularly on the border instead of calling it the war on drugs the administration is calling it combat ing transnational organized crime but it's a war on drugs by by another name the u s is financially supporting the war on drugs in mexico with really disastrous results there fifty thousand people killed in the six years of the last presidential administration mexico since the u s kind of ramped up the support for the war on drugs fifty thousand mexicans killed there's been a murder at the same time of this drug control and immigration control so at the border you know you hear about the border fence you hear about the doubling of border patrol officers about the drones that are now being used even within the country these are all aimed at both stopping undocumented immigrants and stopping drugs part of the result is that both sides are now in on this business of targeting immigrants and people of color for drugs and so we've had these horrific trend this reports of border patrol agents shooting  immigrants trying to get across the border because they believe that their drug traffickers and you know it's basically shooting to kill people who are trying to get across and we also see drug traffickers in mexico getting in on this business of human trafficking and saying you know story kidnapping immigrants many of my clients you know are terrified of being deported mainly because they know the trying to get back in they might get rearrested but also because in mexico the drug traffickers have now become human traffickers there been mass graves found especially central american refugees trying to get to the u s you know so it's a mess the war on drugs is also part of why immigrants are coming to the u s and so in two thousand and ten for example two hundred thirty thousand people were displaced in mexico because of the war on drugs and about half of those people hundred fifteen thousand came here because you know they've lost their homes and so that's just kind of a general overview both of what's happening here what's happening in mexico and i want to take my last few minutes to talk about what are some of the challenges that i see and as an immigrant advocate who also opposes the war on drugs who opposes the criminalization of our communities right now as you may have heard immigrant advocates are working hard towards the legislation that's been possibly announced that may happen that would bring lawful status to the eleven million people who are undocumented in the u s however you know if the administration has its way that is not going to mean an end to the deportations it's not going to mean an end to the illegal reentry convictions so that won't change is not going to be and then to the border patrol in fact it would be an increase of that an increase in the policing because you know the plans that have come out so far say nobody will actually get status until the border is secure you know and it's scary to think about what that would mean you know despite some pessimism what's been most exciting to me about this is that opposed to what we saw in two thousand and six you know where in two thousand and six in this last round of immigration reform possibility people would be carrying signs saying you know we're not criminals or workers you know and those are kind of make me sick  because this trying to distinguish immigrants from people who are criminals in order to make the argument for status is not ok if you can't split up our communities into deserving and undeserving for so many reasons now we're seeing the more progressive immigration organizations are rejecting this framing and saying we don't just need to give people status we need to fundamentally change the way immigration enforcement is happening me to stop deportations we need to stop criminalize being a marine communities we need to stop criminalizing all communities of color i know a lot of people i work with them every day whose lives would be changed by getting awful status at the same time i also know u s history i know that the promises of u s it instead as in ship are actually very limited and that those who tend to benefit from u s citizenship or why our wealthy have access to education don't live in over police neighborhoods etc so knowing that knowing who benefits from citizenship and who doesn't i don't actually believe that granting lawful status is going to change that much about the war on drugs is going to change that much about policing and i think that's where we have to be careful and putting all our eggs in that basket you know as people who are organizing for immigrants so you know in fighting as an immigrant advocate to end the war on drugs to end the  immigrants and all communities of color i think the primary fight for me at least is dismantling the prison industrial complex dismantling all the forces of public private that are benefiting from imprisoning our communities both here and at the border from benefiting from treating drug use and sale is a crime and not like a public health issue that we all know that it is and i want to encourage you if you are interested in getting involved in this is the fight locally to look at the back of your program at the different groups who are involved in this two groups that i work with are washington  carcer action stops here we need every thursday in washington hall from seven to nine most of the time of moses lake but i'm with them in spirit and what wish is doing primarily right now is trying to stop king county from from spending two hundred million dollars to tear down and rebuild the youth jail at twelve an altar we all know that's not the best investment for that money we all know that kids and youth and family shouldn't have to be arrested to get services that we need to think about what services and what our communities need to avoid being arrested to begin with and there's better ways to spend that money and which is trying to come up with plans for that another group i want to mention is what you call an illegal which is also a group that right here in the crowd we have one of our members and that's also working on opposing and as my introduction said i'm twenty eight years old i am currently a student at seattle central community college finishing my two year transfer to agree the next quarter i should be chance friend t v there is the other you are evergreen  tacoma campus to finish my degree there since i was eighteen years old and had custody of my five younger siblings on the oldest of six and that has been a very lovely stressful and also  great learning experience for me as in giving me passion courage and more reason to do what i need to do to make it happen for my life and for my siblings i'm coming to talk to you today about a situation that i'm currently dealing with and then many of our families in the community have been dealing with we'll be dealing with family and have dealt with and that is one of that has a situation that happened with one of my brothers is currently twenty five years old and he has had some trouble in his life and being involved in some gang activity in his younger age of life he was incarcerated and taken away from us in two thousand and nine he did his time there and he was released to us in july of two thousand and twelve while he was incarcerated he finished his high school diploma which we are proud of and once he is released he started i to one of their apprenticeship programs and during this time he was trying to get his life back on track and doing the things that we would want him to do and that he felt he needed to do in order to make the changes in to be a constructive citizen of society he was tired of going to jail he was tired of seeing us cry and seeing the stress in not being around to see his brothers and sisters grow so he was trying to make the steps to do what he needs to do to change  as was stated through the being blessed and having a work study position through financial aid i was placed as a college access advisor through one of the college assets programs and call ed garfield high school which is called col assess foundation i also have two siblings that are go there go there i'm very proud of i have a sister that was a junior that also serves in the singer orchestra there and then a freshman that has a brother that just is going there and then you can tell they are all excited that i'm in their business every day of the week i have our youngest sibling is a fifth grader and less shiela ministries cool which i also was a current employee for about five years working with the fund family support worker in with those families there and i volunteer they are about three days a week as well my brother trying to get back involved my brother and sisters lives in just get his cell together he was coming up to the school to visit one day to pick up a key from his youngest sibling at the protocol at garfield high school is that you have to sign in the friend desk whatever business that you're doing you must sign and you must leave your name you must come and someone must see you you know that you are in their building and with business that you have my younger brother had to leave the key of the friend desk had to leave my brother's name to let them know hey my brother you're going to come down to pick up the house key you know here goes the key he went back to class his business as usual my brother comes up to the actually assist him my brother as i said had just been released in july and so as you know when you're released from prison you're on probation so he was done probation and during the time he was on probation he got caught with driving without a license and any time that you are one hundred probation any kind of violation any contact that you have with police can be considered as a violation of your parole so because he had received a ticket for driving without a license it was considered as a violation of his parole so therefore he had a warrant for his arrest garfield high school i don't want to say is blessed but they have the opportunity of having a seattle police officer inside of their school at all  lot of connections with the and the central area community so him knowing my brother ran his name found out that he had an arrest warrant he was arrested at garfield high school and taken away somehow the news got wind of it and q thirteen wanted to do a story when they produced a story some of you might have read it they allege and made my brother out to be this gang recruiter who was there for prostitution in for gang recruitment and it was just totally false from what have been from why he was there to what they reported me being active in my life i call them my children because they are my children and my children brothers sisters live  i'm up on it and i'm aware of what is going on in what is happening and i try to be brisk in stay on top of everything that i need to so that evening when the news reports came out which was about the sixteenth and seventeenth of january it was ridiculous when it was reported to be monstrous man that is preying on our students and prowling the school halls of garfield high school the was ninety nine point nine percent of all that pictures and the facts that they used were things that they tried to do and what i want to say is they tried to crucify him in the news back in two thousand and nine and if you remember in two thousand and two thousand  in our communities there were a lot of youth killing the lot of youth violence a lot of gang related violence it was just crazy out on the streets and kids were just dying left or right and the police wanted to make an example they needed to do something they needed to make seem like that we were out there making it happen and so when my brother got picked on of off the charts mind you my brother has never had a violent charge in his life he has never been charged or cues of anything they had to do with prostitution or anything that has to do with any of the things that they were trying to allege that he was doing so they used pictures from back in two thousand and nine which were pictures that he paid posted on facebook or my space that the and because he wanted to be a rapper with his music they tried to crucify him because of his musical lyrics that he was a monster that he was dangerously just listen to his music lyrics i don't think that they do that for puff daddy or for fifty's thin or for anybody else that's out there in the musical history of a because they have an illegitimate a record label and money behind them it's ok for them to do it but because my brother was just coming and trying to make a name for himself it wasn't ok for him he was twenty one at the time they tried to make him seem like he was this notorious gang leader of do say again no no not at twenty one i don't know what organization that you know that is established like that that you can make your ranks that quick and fast but it's not going to happen and what they're doing now because they want to set up on two thousand and nine i feel that they use this as a window to try to finish the job i'm currently fighting this case i'm currently doing there and when she went there she represented herself as interviewing about the access officer and how it was a good or negative into t inside of the school district when she left that you know review in it was out on television it was about my brother when i went up to the school the next day to speak with the principal the vice principal and the arresting officer they had nothing to say that even coincide i came close to what the interviewer put out on the television so as you can see our children need help everyone is not as blessed or as lengthy to have people in their corner that are going to fight for the end then know what to say to know who to call have those access and have those resources to  have the access to those resources to actually gain that hill so we need to come together as a community to not only do it when it effects you personally but because like it's been stated here today what effects one effects is all just because you might be comfortable today has nothing to do with what's going to happen tomorrow or a minute from an hour hour from now and we get together in come together as a community and realize that this is us problem and not a you problem not a damn problem they problem then we will start to make change i left this saying that it takes a village to raise a child but right now we need someone to take care of our village and that is what our job is today very much for giving me via this opportunity to be here today and and i've related very much with many of the speakers positions that are presented here in fact i relate so  well that when i think of my cousins who are currently i'm originally from the midwest omaha all my male cousins are either in debt are you dad are currently in prison typically for drug offenses and so becomes very personal after a while it became it remains personal for me as i watch my thank you as i watch my nephew overdose on heroin it in in my evolution as a judge i started off as a prosecutor with the king county prosecutor's office and and when i went there i says all this is you know i'm i'm one of the guys were in the white hat and after a while my had got gray because they couldn't figure out whether i was a good guy or bad guy and then i finally left the prosecutor's office and practice in private practice for a while but that really was not very satisfying either finally i was a pointed as work that i have to do that i am doing is changing the trying to make changes within the system but i got to tell you you know we talk about the village our village is on fire it's burning down around us at this point in time and we have an obligation and in whatever arena that we operate within where there be within the within the education the criminal justice the civil justice schools to start doing concrete things that start putting that fire out no recently that with spin acknowledge that well this really is a public health issue not a criminal justice issue and how do we ameliorate the adverse impact that the let the folks out in the back again and so he developed a drug court program which put trained professionals including judicial officers who are knowledgeable in the issues of chemical dependency and devise a process to give folks the tools to deal with this public health issue this addiction this disease and what dependencies in families mental health courts again specialized dockets but the reality is that stills not addressing the issue when you look at the  portionate minority contact that occurs within our criminal justice system as has been articulated and seen on a daily basis of who's in prison still broke we have king county has been pretty good about trying to analyze what's going on how do we fix it and we have tried to break out the various elements of under whose province does the particular  my judges we have i've talked to them regularly about the fact that we have this implicit bias that occurs within our system and explicit and they all say well  but you say well when you look at the outcome who's in jail what does that number tell and of course the one of the challenges is is to to make to effectuate change to make a change you have to move people out of the defensive at least from my perspective into action and so as when you're pointing fingers at everybody there they mean little walls build up and they can't hear what she's saying so i am meaning to and maybe it's my own personality type i'm one i try not to point fingers necessarily i try to say where can we meet areas of commonality there's a concept i think we all know about it's called the school to prison pipeline that is occurring that i get to see on a regular basis as a juvenile justice juvenile judge and it's terribly distressing to know that we are perpetuating this generational process of incarceration of of lifelong inability to access anything housing education jobs benefits so part of the process that i see as a reclaiming futures judge and reclaiming futures as a model that says we're going to provide more treatment better treatment beyond treatment to argue what i'm trying what i'm wrapping my mind around is how do why get the schools at the table because that's where this is a lot of this is occurring when you have this exclusionary practices for as a basis to kick somebody out of school and then you put it up obstacles for them to reengage in school within a very short period of time someone's frustrated the students frustration level becomes so high that they say well why should i go back to school they don't want me there i'm behind i'm be i have no opportunity to be successful in the model and then of course we we see that here with too much time on their hands then you find to find themselves that youthful brain to get into trouble find themselves interacting and in actions that bring them within the purview of the justice system one because you're not going to school and we have the truancy laws and to because they're now coming into the purview of the crew of the as i say the criminal justice as well so weak i think the comment is that has been expressed here is that we've got to come together we have to use a wide variety of our professional talents of our work practices to start addressing this issue we have the pressure has to come from not only within imo within guy but from without where the community is demanding that there be changes made in in these things that i think we would see eventually positive outcome because that's where our future is from my perspective imo guy and so there's not much i've been blessed in my life and i thank my mom i'm a come from a single family household fo kids i'm the baby and she did it because she did a good job she always totus smart you're wonderful you're beautiful you can be whatever the heck you  my brother he said ph d works for boeing has nine pac my other brothers started off as a am a private in the military and it up as  made my mom to when someone here spoke about angry black man that's me now because we got to do something different than what we've been doing and this is our community this isn't a black problem this isn't a latino problem this is our problem and together we have to come together together we have to devise a strategy that gives us the ability to positively impact the health and vitality of our community thank you