as a young man i've noticed a lot of problems in the community that we that the lack of role models is one of the main fundamental causes of why we are not succeeding right now i see there's an epidemic going on in the east african community with in regard to somalians ethiopians eritreans the sudanese all of them there's epidemic going on right now we are losing we missed the second step on the block parents came here have begun to have done to have to go off something more than emotion the books like this is what i actually read to understand it so i can communicate it so i can so i can understand what picture i've been painting a part of and things of that nature so in order to be a leader i have to understand to understand how the streets became the way it is wiser drugs in the community how to get established i mean think about it nobody  deeper problem the deeper problem is the transportation of drugs from south america and other nations like that here so i have to get to understand a problem you always got to touch on the cornet's why read books i read different perspectives try to get a better understanding to get to the core issues of a lot of the problems so a little seattle police department chair yes they can address how to stop gang prevention when i speak about why the kids are in gangs let's talk about how they're going to schools like the one we're in and if you look around this is very outdated i'm looking at posters of stuff a bill from one thousand nine hundred four the hallways a clean the lockers are outdated when you when they're when a deprived grown up from stuff that can engage their mind from the basic necessities of a quality that they should have to end up turning to street finally when i'm not getting to school i turn to the streets you know we've got there's a lot of kids here m now now looks like i'm ahead of my time but i'm just at the placement that i was from the beginning so you know through reading leadership but you know like like my mentor was told once said an article that was written about him he said books books don't talk so if i got kids make a sense in the air cheney they'll be in war i want to read it and then take them to speak to different people from the air chain or ethiopian community that experience of war so they can have visual document visual imagery to go with the words they learn so gives a lasting for you this is the future that's what her name is the future i have a doctor a lawyer a pilot an n b a player that is a cold combination that is a called combination but  order for them to get there they need a dog they need us to come together to help them get there this young man i told him this young man right here i told him personally i will help you to get the hi my name is greg taylor and i am a consultant with a community connection consulting and i like to invite you to one of my workshops that will take place on tuesday december the eleven the workshop is going to be called black brown and blue schools to prisons pipeline made of color in the criminal justice system african american juvenile you are but sixteen percent of the population yet they are twenty eight percent of the juvenile arrest thirty seven percent of youth in juvenile jails and fifty eight percent of the youth sent to adult prisons while black males have a thirty two percent chance of serving time in prison at some point in time in their lives latino have a seventy percent chance white males have a six percent chance black and brown males are disproportionately account for over sixty percent of the federal prison male population although they make up only twenty eight percent combined of our nation's male population in my workshop we're going to have panel discussions an active learning that is designed for participants who are interested in increasing their awareness and knowledge of available research the point said mass incarceration and the criminal justice system as being a racialized system of control it is also for those who are interested in seeking to learn about efforts that are underway to reform our criminal justice system participants in this workshop will increase their knowledge and awareness of institutionalized disparity in the criminal justice system that disproportionately incarcerates black and brown men and permanently locks a huge percentage of them out of mainstream society and economic opportunities they'll also gain insights about social economic and public safety impacts that privately run and operated prisons have on our communities and finally you learn about local state and federal strategies to reform juvenile and criminal justice policy and how you can participate and get involved so i'd like to invite you to this see that it's going to take place again on tuesday december the eleventh from nine am until three pm at the twenty one hundred building and if you'd like more information about it you can reach me at area code two  but the one this workshop also will be of interest to nonprofit organizations educational organizations that target their efforts around youth who are interested in learning about incarcerated and i'm aware that the ethiopian community along with the other african communities are collectively concerned about it and looking at how they can learn more about what they can do to help this individual  the main conversation that we want to talk about is what can we do to stop the incarceration of our young black and brown in our youth and also the impacts of disparity that impacts black and brown men as they  get involved in the juvenile in the criminal justice system which produces a disenfranchisement that really locks a lot of people out of mainstream society so again you're invited there is a cost of eighty five dollars to attend the workshop and if you'd like more details please feel free to give me a call you can reach me at area code two zero six five nine five one three six five and thank you very much