my name is demarian gibson and author and student and activist. it perplexes me that thigh 8 million dollars is being spent on weapons and that isn't counting the taxpayer dollars going towards police weapons or military bases in japan and palestine and across the world, latin american, you have 300 million spent on a prison, but you don't have-there are 300 kids going to elementary school now that are homeless. there are people living on the streets. there are people that can benefit from that money in so many other ways. you have millions of dollars that you are willing to give to people that are opressing people, but you are reluct tonight spend on education and firing teachers. you empower people who want to supress people and giving money putting people in jail and not keeping people out of jail. you are giving money away that doesn't benefit people. from the moment i walked in the room, but gentlemen here approached me with the most animosity. as long as the pow ers that be depict people of color in a manner that associated them with inferio