Programs from the past 15 years online at booktv. Org. [applause] well, this is fun. Im a fan, and i dont see any dead people here today. [laughter] a little joke. [laughter] actually, one of the memorable lines is i see dead people which is really fun. I like it. [laughter] i want to start up with something from your writing because i think when people want to read the book, they want to read something that you wrote. Its a personal book. It came out of you. It was not assigned to you. You picked the topic. You picked the passion, education. This wonderful line is when you were in high school, a tough neighborhood in north phillie, where we grew up, irish somehow, black, and very tough, and its a tough rundown neighborhood, the whole place, and you were talking to the kids, africanamerican kids there, wondering why you are the highest paid writer in the world, you tried to get their interest, right way to do it, i think. Im more me than they are them. Explain that about your success a
Position finish. [inaudible] the fifth element is reasonableness. Everything you do in acting in selfdefense has to be that of a reasonable and prudent person, and you have to have actually yourself believed it was necessary to act in selfdefense. The five elements, innocence, imminence, proportionality, reasonableness [inaudible] what is stand your ground doing . All stand your ground does is take away one of those elements, the avoidance element. You no longer need to seek an avenue of retreat before you can act in this selfdefense. Whats left in place . Everything else. Innocence, imminence, reasonableness and proportionality are all still in place. Its not some mysterious mechanism the nra pus in plait. Put in place. Stand your ground is exactly the same as the oldfashioned selfdefense except for that one element of avoidance. So if you live in a stand your ground jurisdiction and you act in selfdefense, what do you still need to be able to prove . You were the innocent person, you
Ugh, it just makes them crazy. And i find that so extraordinary because as a film maker, someone that watches a lot of scenes, theres a lot of, you know, stories will go through big effort to get that kind of response. You will see, like, someones house blown up and people are like, oh, or someones sexually assaulted and people are, like, eh. Yet this little moment is so incredibly stirring to our audience. And its that thing, that little thing that happens, you know, over and over in little ways that take away the dignity of students that everyone can relate to and its, in a way i always feel, its why i feel so bad ultimately for kim lockwood, who is the administrator in the film in this scene because, like, its not like shes done this like insanely awful thing. She just got it ron and rushed to judge and said shake hands and everything will be okay and didnt take into account the history of those two students and didnt put the pieces together that the boy that didnt want to shake han
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And find friendship and then they so dont want to lose their fathers as well, this boyfather thing is so deep. Every Single Person in this room wants to start making a difference. We want to start doing it right now. Ros, how do you start giving a child the dignity that was taken away . Im actually going to use an example that might seem a little farflung for that question. One of the things i wanted to talk about with colleagues is the write up process when they cuss you out in the classroom or the hallway. I was in chicago in may and already the strike talk was coming up and talking to some of the teacher. One of the teachers said i dont know what to do about this bullying thing because the kids are cussing me out in the hallway and all i can do is write them up. I think thats a moment id like us to think about in terms of empowerment of the teacher. It might be the case that the teacher doesnt feel for a lot of Different Reasons that she cant depend on his principal to back her up a