down with me, to have a conversation, which is no doubt familiar to many of you. about how as a young black man i should interact with the police. what to say. and how to conduct myself if i was ever stopped or confronted in a way i thought was unwarranted. so, i'm sure my father felt certain at that time that my parents' generation would be the last that had to worry but such things for their children. since those days our country has changed for the better. i stand before you as 82nd 82nd attorney general of the united states, serving in the administration of our first african-american president, proves that. [applause] yet for all the progress we have seen, recent events demonstrate we still have much more work to do and much further to go. the news of trayvon martin's death last year, and the