susan burton now i runs -- now runs five safe homes for women in los angeles, women released from prison. her organization is called a new way of life. she prides help finding jobs, housing, helps to reunite women with their families, and beyond that she is organizing formerly-incarcerated people to demand the restoration of their basic civil and human rights. clearly, clearly susan has caught up to king. but what about the rest of us? now, what i have to say on this point will not be popular. it is not the sunny, cheerful message that is expected on the day after we inaugurated for the second time our nation's first black president. but i believe it to be the truth, and it implicates me, and it implicates everyone in this room. and the truth is this: we have allowed a human rights nightmare to occur on our watch. in the years since dr. king's death, a vast new system of racial and social control has emerged from the ashes of slavery and jim crow. a system of mass incarceration that no doubt has dr. king turn anything his grave -- turning in his grave today. the mass incarceration of poo