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Trying to get zimmerman arrested, blacks and whites wearing hoodies and all kinds of parks, maybe those should have kept on for an entire year, because we can't trust the system. we are still at a kind of a war that degrades and belittles a great part of our population. >> and sunny, you've worked in the system. the system is all there is. how does one -- where do we go from here? >> i've been asking myself that question since this verdict that i think most people know i was stunned by. i come from a law enforcement background. i was one of those prosecutors on the front lines and i saw this c...

Innocence. i wonder if perhaps we fell asleep by even entrusting the justice system to bring back a verdict that we thought was fair. i mean, the good news is that in the case of at least we were trying to get zimmerman arrested, blacks and whites wearing hoodies and all kinds of parks, maybe those should have kept on for an entire year, because we can't trust the system. we are still at a kind of a war that degrades and belittles a great part of our population. >> and sunny, you've worked in the system. the system is all there is. how does one -- where do we go from here? >> i've been asking ...

>> you bring up a really good point. when i was growing up, no one talked to me how to interact with the police. i always assumed they're like "chips," the police are my friends. ponch and john are going to help me. >> part of that is what people call white privilege. >> i'm like the poster boy of white privilege. >> not you particularly. >> well, i am. we can't help where i'm born. >> the other leg of that is the phenomena people call racism without racist, which is that for a lot of people, bias happens subconsciously. they're not aware that they're exercising bias. in other cases, bias is b...

How do we prepare kids to say you're growing up to be a man, but under these circumstances you have to act like it's 50 years ago. that's not where we want to go in this country. >> anna, as you listen to this, what goes through your mind? >> i think the whole conversation about innocence is really to the point, isn't it? that young black men and probably young brown men are not innocent. they lose their innocence. but all of us have lost our innocence. i wonder if perhaps we fell asleep by even entrusting the justice system to bring back a verdict that we thought was fair. i mean, the good ne...

I was looking at before i came in another one of those medical studies, this is pediatricians. they measured subconscious bias and realized a lot of the doctors have subconscious bias. of those who had subconscious bias, for whites against blacks, they were less likely to offer pain management to the children in their care if they were black. that is the most cruel kind of expression, and they're not even aware that they're allowing these black children to suffer. >> we're raised in america, a lot of this stuff comes in, sort of through subconscious. you eastern not thinking about it. all of u...