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Okay . I usually come in after bad things have happened. And we were picking the jury and ill never forget it, it was about a 6 or 7week trial, 1992 or Something Like that, 91, and it was remarkable to me because we did a questionnaire because the case had a lot of publicity. And id say 99 percent of the people noted, the potential jurors noted they have daily and meaningful contact with a person of another race or religion. And then i had another trial after this was done in another jurisdiction that shall go unnamed, and i would say there were maybe 5 percent of the jurors, potential jurors,...

Each others advocates. We are brothers and sisters in grief. We know what it feels like to have our children destroyed over things that we love and cherish about them. Right. You referenced again what i referred to often as the appalling silence of good people that, as you recall, were dr. Kings words from the birmingham jail. Ive seen that all the time, people who are i think in their core good people who dont know what to do who tend to send the paradigm that boys will be boys and girls will be girls and were trying to shift that paradigm. And thats why in okahenapen we have an accountabilit...

What this is about. One of my least favorite words is the word tolerance because, you know, i tolerate Brussel Sprouts but if you simply tolerate the diversity that is america, you are going to, you are aspiring for mediocrity. When we have, and this gets back to your question, when we have leaders that embrace diversity and that build a culture that says, you know what, if you want to compete in the Global Economy tomorrow, pal, youve got to embrace diversity. Why does cocacola write a brief to the United States Supreme Court and General Motors and microsoft on issues of diversity and Higher ...

Know as superintendent talked about, you are doing amazing stuff in San Francisco. Tony smith in oakland has an initiative that is dealing with not just things like restoretive justice alone but positive behavioral interventions and supports. Couple that with response to intervention, whole School Reform strategies that work on transforming the way the school is functioning and in so doing making it a more positive culture for everybody. It brings in parental engagement in families and it has the very tough conversations, in the case of oakland i know for sure, around things like race with an ...

As the appalling silence of good people that, as you recall, were dr. Kings words from the birmingham jail. Ive seen that all the time, people who are i think in their core good people who dont know what to do who tend to send the paradigm that boys will be boys and girls will be girls and were trying to shift that paradigm. And thats why in okahenapen we have an accountability document that calls for. inaudible with the idea, like i said, there is not a state going that we dont have a parent that has a dead child. We are dragging everybody to the party because at what point do we say, we cant...