TED: “In an engaging and personal talk — with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks — human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country’s black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America’s unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness.”
Bryan Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system
[...] Stevenson, whose idea this is, asks this of America: “Do we deserve to have a death penalty?” If Germany does not — [...]
The injustices done to the African Americans in this country is repulsive. I was hoping Rev. AL Sharpton’s movement for Trayvon Martin would keep building because I’d like to follow. I don’t know how to help. And listening to the crap Ted Nugent is spewing.deserves a little jail time as far as I’m concerned.