We need to talk about an injustice | Bryan Stevenson
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4.1 • 12.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:32.6 | You're listening to a special archive presentation of TED Talks Audio. |
| 0:37.1 | This talk features public interest |
| 0:39.3 | lawyer Brian Stevenson, recorded live at TED 2012. Well, this is a really extraordinary honor for me. |
| 0:48.7 | I spend most of my time in jails and prisons on death row. I spend most of my time in very low-income communities and the projects and places where |
| 0:57.0 | there's a great deal of hopelessness. |
| 0:59.0 | And being here at TED and seeing the stimulation, hearing it, has been very, very energizing to me. |
| 1:05.0 | And one of the things that's emerged in my short time here is that TED has an identity. |
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| 1:15.2 | and sometimes when it comes through TED, it has meaning and power |
| 1:18.6 | that it doesn't have when it doesn't. |
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