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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, who had had meaningful contact with a person of a different race or ethnicity and thats really 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 b...

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, who had had meaningful contact with a person of a different race or ethnicity and thats really 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 b...

Very quickly because i know we want to move on, the attorney general launched a defending childhood initiative, i know theres a lot of philanthropy in the room, we want to work in partnership to find those innovative programs. There was a jurisdiction in north dakota that got a grant to implement some of the restoretive justice programs, the superintendent mentioned those. Those have shown real potential for doing good things in terms of preventing recidivism in the bullying context. A grant to boston for statewide bullying intervention, so theres a number of different places, portland, maine ...

And we talk a lot about how do you change the culture . This is what its about. I think this is an area where the bay area has a leg up. 20 years ago or 21 years ago i spent a year here, basically, i was doing a federal trial involving some bad things that happened, 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...

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 African American male focus in that community because its appropriate for that community, and the way all these things link together. So certainly bullying and harassment is an avenue into transforming the way schools work. Just like discipline is an avenue into transforming the way schools work, as is standards and good assessments, it is how all these things fit together to ensure that students feel safe to learn ...