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to be the most devastating thing happening in compton, california. he could've said poverty, because we all know the impact of poverty. he could've said education. we all know the undermining of education leads to an impact in our ability to critical thinking. what he said, however, was guns. this insight is quite important when considering whether the long-term consequences can be reversed in humans exposed early in life to abuse or deprivation to a shortage of calories or love, or just corrosive effects of being bathed in fear and lessons of hopelessness once born. , all of us are miners. depend on the to canaries in order to stay alive. thank you very much. [applause] before we begin the q&a, i really want to thank you all, and also the congressmen and women whose offices that you work in, and their commitment and care about these issues. will conclude and then we take q&a with a couple of things that our american public and you should know. in 2015, there were almost 13,000 people killed in the united states because of gun violence. now let's put

the game become a rapper from compton california was asked in a documentary called the streets of compton, what he felt to be the most devastating thing occurring in compton california. he could have said poverty because we all know the impact of poverty. he could have said education because we know the undermining of education leads to an impact in our ability to critical thinking. what he said, however, was guns. this is important when considering whether the long-term consequences can be reversed to excuse deprivation to the shortage of love or the corrosive fear and wesson of hopelessness. don't forget all of us are. of us have to in order to stay alive. thank you very much. [applause] i really want to thank you all and also the congressmen and women whose offices that you work in the end of their and thd care about these issues let's conclude and then take the q-and-a with a couple things that our american public and you should know. in 2015, there were almost 13,000 people killed in the united states. let's put that in context over a ten year period between 2005 and 2015 there were

things or people.o you could be a ku klux klan member from mississippi or a bang banger from compton california but put two of those guys in the room with free ice cream they are both going to take it. it is too racist for ice cream? who is too gangster for ice cream?is too r we think we are so different that we have so much in common and the third thing i would like for people to take away from this book is something that i live by. there's an ethiopian proverb that reads -- so i don't think about the government and what's going to trickle down. i think about how we asht individuals can use our power to make real change. my thing is literacy.eal chan a i started the writer's project and help other writers get book sales. o i have come to a lot of other writers getting their writing published in other places. i have a friend who works with financial literacy. we are all figuring out what her passion is and we are working really, really, really hard to achieve mastery. i want people to read this book to understand how strong we are as individuals in the things we can do. all of us have been wait

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