So for new listeners, can you tell us a little bit about your background and what you do for CRC?

Sure.

I am a former California public school teacher for about 15 years.

I taught middle school and high school.

Most of my time was in middle school.

And in 2020, we were stuck behind computers and dealing with a oppressive lockdown.

And I went from being in the classroom, standing up, walking around with my students, very happy to all of us being miserable, tied to computers for over about a year.

turn in their work.

Can justice be served if there's no black members of the jury judging a black man?

I think that if there was black members of the jury, they would have come to the same conclusion if they were being objective.

And what's happening right now in America is, it's really sad because this is a case of two teens.

Take race out of it.

This is a case of two teens who are on rival sports teams And these kind of scuffles happen all the time on school campuses.

These kind of, you know, push and shoving boys.

I used to have to separate them because I'm a former public school teacher.

Are you seeing now a resurgence of a desire to get back the money and the attention that came during Ferguson and BLM and George Floyd, and that's what this was about, much more than the case about activists trying to become relevant again?