I went to Harvard Law School and had a lotta degrees and awards. I've won cases at the US Supreme Court and I've been in courtrooms representing clients. Getting there early, sitting at defense counsel's table where the judge will walk in and immediately get mad at me. The general. Look at me and say, Hey, hey, you get back out there in the hallway. I don't want any defendant sitting in my courtroom without their lawyer. And I have to stand up and say, Oh, I'm sorry, your honor. I am the lawyer. I didn't introduce myself. My name is Bryan Stevenson. I have to try to de - escalate the situation and it was doing that recently. I was in equipment in the Midwest and the judge started laughing, but it wasn't an apologetic laugh and it kind of angered me. And the prosecutor started laughing. They thought it was so funny. And I was sitting there getting angry. And then I thought, Oh, no, Brian, you can't get angry. You need to smile. You may need to laugh. And I felt that way. I thought that way because my client was not going to be. To leave that county. I was. I was able to leave that county and never come back based on the way I was treated by. Chose to do it, but my client was going to have to stay there. So when they were laughing, I smiled and then I eventually chuckled. Client came in. We did to. Hearing, but I remember sitting in my car after that hearing thinking, Wow, here I am. I'm this middle aged black man. I'm in my best suit. Actually. Aren't indicated the Supreme Court that we were trying to implement. I've got all of these degrees and awards, and I'm still required to laugh at my own humiliation to do justice for my client. That's not right. That's not fair. And I'm getting old enough to know that when you have to constantly navigate presumptions of dangerousness and guilt because of your color. When you have to tell your children how to survive a police encounter, what to do and what not to do. How they can't do the things that their white friends can do because they're. They're going to be burdened with this presumption. When you have to constantly navigate this world, it's exhausting. And I want something better. I want something better for everybody. And that's why the commitment to truth - telling, the commitment to building institutions that help us understand the harms of history is such a priority. Share believe, inspire blacks be.