so does etan thomas. as he describes in his book etan thomas "we matter: athletes and activism," etan thomas realized in high school people would listen to him because he played basketball, quote, i can raise awareness. and so he has. poet, author, activist, mentor and motivational speaker and i would add educated, etan thomas has committed himself to be more than an athlete, that is the title of his first book. in this, his fourth book, etan thomas continues to explore the power athletes have to influence youth. he shares with and speak about the experience of athlete activism like john carlos, alonzo mourning, kareem abdul-jabbar, describes positive impacts athletes can have on social change and encourages other athletes to do the same. for those of you who recall watching etan thomas play, remember he played with passion, energy, commitment. i can say he writes the same way he played basketball, with the same passion and commitment and never backing down from opponents, like racism and social injustice

on etan thomas' book is available. and my book lessons in lenny and along with my partner walt whitman and talks about-- it has a correlation that from the lem bias situation, and the laws now, enforced enforce ration, the difference between crack and cocaine. the action that has led to the problem that we have with mass incarcerati incarceration, a lot of that happened with lem bias. and look at the books, these are the way that etan can get messages out, what going on. it's not about changing everybody's finds to think a certain way. it's locking at things, and make a decision yourself whether it's right or wrong and whatever it is you believed in. we hope you enjoyed this. we appreciate your support. thank you very much. [applaus [applause]. [inaudible conversations] partisan politics. this is about 40 minutes. welcome, everybody. very excited to introduce today's offer a wonderful book called sex power and partisanship. is this better? i'm very happy to introduce today's offer doctor hector