I loved Bryan’s TED talk video, he is a great public speaker. He starts off with stories about his child hood incorporating them into his speech mainly to talk about creating an identity for oneself. He talks about his grandmother who pulled each child aside and told them that they were special and made them keep three promises, 1. To always love their mother, 2. Always do the right thing even when it is the hard thing and 3. To never touch alcohol. Well when Bryan was told this he thought he was the only one who got this speech and really did think he was special, when actually all the grandkids got this little talk. But Bryan realized this was what helped him build his identity, and when one has an identity they can do more for not just themselves but for others. Its almost like spreading the word, if you have a amazing non-profit organization or charity but you don’t get the word out than what good does it do? None!  Bryan is an attorney for young children who are in jail and never really had a chance to better their lives, they got caught up in some hometown problems and now are most likely being tried as an adult. Bryan tells another story about how he wrote this “awful” proposal about one of his clients and went on and on about how this 14 year old poor black boy should be tried as a 75 year old rich white man, since we tend to let them off easier which I agree with a lot. “The opposite of poverty is not wealth. … In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice” Bryan said this in his speech, and he is right, poverty isn’t just being poor it is how they are treated and people in poverty are being treated unequally, they are getting injustice in the court system.  Stevenson gives many different statistics regarding the black population and poverty. One which sticks out and amazes me is 1 in 3 black males have or will be incarcerated and some point in their lives. This is just mind boggling, this number is so high because our country now focuses on placing everyone in jail just because of petty crimes instead of having that person give back what they have done wrong. Bryan Stevenson has been involved with social justice and injustice for quite awhile. He would go sit and listen to Rosa Parks and Mrs. Carr about what they felt, they would often turn and ask what he thought and then he would go into telling her about his plans to stop or prevent injustice and she tells him that its going to make him tired, tired, tired.