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Hello everyone.

My name is Reginald Duane Betts.

And a few years ago I wrote a piece for the New York Times magazine about my life.

It was, you know, about going to prison at 16 and coming home and then my attempts at

becoming an attorney.

And all of it has come back to me more recently and reminded me what the piece was really

about.

I was listening to my oldest son, McCoy, talked to his classmates and I heard him say,

as you all know, my father went to jail.

And the class they were talking about the death of George Floyd and what my son was asking

was why prison was the place for 16 year old me and why prison would have been a place

had Floyd gotten arrested and convicted of passing a fake $20 bill.

Prison would have been a place for him and why that same place would be the place for

if convicted the officer that killed Floyd.

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