tell you a very quick story about justice Thomas when I was clerking my co clerk had been tutoring a young African American boy from Arkansas I was in junior high he brought him up to the court to

America and and he was just eighteen years old he had a hundred dollars in his underwear couldn't speak English and

young people in a spandex and African Americans and women and Reagan Democrats that's what we're seeing that's who's coming together for this I'm

he said we obviously had a luxury because mom and dad had we had telephone in the bed and his mom is

my father was nine years old as a young boy in the streets of Havana his mother died and at nine years of age he had to go to work and leave school he

year and next year it's expected to be a hundred and forty five thousand these are little boys and little girls that

tek i had seen the joy confidence and optimism of young people who

great hardship and had little expectation beyond living in peace but the roof over our head and

is particularly endemic among young African American male that in some communities in this country have a much higher chance of interacting with criminal justice and

five hundred dollars a year Brian and his benefits are far less than what he had and I this example

my father never really got to go to school when he was nine years old his mother passed away and had to go to it would work for the next seventy years of his life my

drove Jaguars live in the fancy mansions and had these big plush offices and

went in on mother's day and our pastor stood up and he had curiously enough we had like a little %HESITATION kiddie

wounded soldiers and I ran into a young captain who had been in a convoy attack

for him and listening to the pain in his voice in the two years and I I I'm sorry I had to I had to put that against

they drove jaguars live in the fancy mansions and had these big plush offices and