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I ham cochair of the rnla. Im in private practice in memphis and i deeply resent kurtis hill stealing all of my blue suede shoes lines. Thats my role to say, thank you, thank you very much. And but i do thank you very much, elliott, and i want to thank kimberly reed, our chairman, and thanks to david bauscher, who this chairman of this event and has put on a fantastic program, and thanks to our staff who have made all of this possible. But i also want to thank once again our sponsors because money may be the mothers milk of politics but its also what makes conferences run, and so we thank our ...

I ham cochair of the rnla. Im in private practice in memphis and i deeply resent kurtis hill stealing all of my blue suede shoes lines. Thats my role to say, thank you, thank you very much. And but i do thank you very much, elliott, and i want to thank kimberly reed, our chairman, and thanks to david bauscher, who this chairman of this event and has put on a fantastic program, and thanks to our staff who have made all of this possible. But i also want to thank once again our sponsors because money may be the mothers milk of politics but its also what makes conferences run, and so we thank our ...

Rights legislation that became law while i was 9 years old, yeah, that was a signal. It was optimism. It was a promise that you could do all the things that my parents told us we ocould do anything. They mistakenly told the doctors that as well as the sons so we took them at their word. As a result, you saw laws and barriers falling as you went along. You came away from that hopeful and optimistic about the possibilities. And looking back over this period, civil rights law, brown in 54, 55, all these things, have these turned out the way you thought at the time theyd turn out . Yes. Have they ...

No. Remember, we still have housing segregation. It was rigid and state enforced. So our communities were mixed communities, down the street. Where the kids with no shoes that our parents would make sure that what little we had were shared. No matter what your socioeconomic status was. And we were between two public parks. Two Public Housing units. And so, i guess when you were able to move out of the housing unit and my parents were pleased that we never had to live in a housing unit that we did live in a fourstory walkup. Before we moved to where we lived. And those who were able to get into...

Rights legislation that became law while i was 9 years old, yeah, that was a signal. It was optimism. It was a promise that you could do all the things that my parents told us we ocould do anything. They mistakenly told the doctors that as well as the sons so we took them at their word. As a result, you saw laws and barriers falling as you went along. You came away from that hopeful and optimistic about the possibilities. And looking back over this period, civil rights law, brown in 54, 55, all these things, have these turned out the way you thought at the time theyd turn out . Yes. Have they ...