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schools still segregated and do-                                                                               helps people of color with any of
ing a much poorer job educating                                                                                the life problems they face? How
black children than white? What                                                                                about your money? Is any of this
is wrong with us that we can’t          There have certainly                                                   going to make police brutality go
fix these problems? They are not      been too many deaths                                                     away? Probably not in the short
new problems.                          of black people under                                                   term, but hopefully yes, in the
                                    circumstances where there                                                  long term. And for the present,
  Certainly poverty is at the root
of many of these problems. What seem to be no justification law enforcement has to change
can we do about that? What, as for lethal force. This has to too. Now.
members of the legal profession,    stop, and it has to                                                        The time has come to stop
can we do about it?                                                                                            talking. And even to stop march-
Well, how many attorneys of         stop now.                                                                  ing—though that is a hopeful

color are there at your firm or                                                                                sign. The time has come to do.
corporation or agency? Have                                                                                    We are a privileged group with
you ever mentored a black law                                                                                  more education and more re-
student, or a black student at any level of educa- sources than most. The question is: What are you
tion? Do you donate your time to any agency that doing?
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