and to lead the organization, please welcome atlantic staff writer van newkirk. van, please take it away. [ applause ] >> so, ralph, we in that video, we just saw that race tax of $20,000 per family. you got involved with the contract buyers league after they found that out. what was the contract buyers league, what were their objectives? and how did you meet those objectives? >> well, the objectives originally were of the organization, were to discover that type of data, which in today's dollars doesn't sound like a significant at the time if you saw those houses prices on that list, imagine what that would be in today's dollars. it amounts to roughly a 75% markup on average between what the sellers paid for the property often just days earlier and turned around and sold it to a black family at an inflated rate. so this took a while to get that information out of the community, because there was a hesitancy to basically admit that you were taken advantage of. but when you're desperate for housing and desperate for a place to raise your kids. sometimes you may no