before rodney king. you can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. i think we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. that is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our sheriff's office regardless of circumstance. that influenced me a lot. some of the storefronts have changed. what is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. the barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dad's old army boots fixed. we would see movies after the first run. my brother and i would go there. itit is nice. if you keep walking down sacramento. the nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. that is where my grandparents were brought up.

moments of racially motivated violence, and that if you think about emmett till, if you think about rodney king, you know, there are are all of these flash points in our history where we not only say enough is enough, but when we say what do we have to learn collectively from this moment? i think what's different now is that with these young people and with the technology of the cell phone, they are on their phones, out of the eyes and arms of people who love them. they're watching these things repeated, repeated times, dozens and dozens of times. and i would like to know how we're going to think about the effects on an entire generation of of that kind of not the exposure per se, but the knowledge that comes with the exposure. and i think that's really very, very important because i think trayvon martin and trayvon's death and the acquittal of his murderer really are one of the hinge points of this period in time that i've called the third reconstruction. mike. my question for you right now is about the art in the book. there's there's so much beauty and poignancy in the book. it really is. an

before rodney king. you can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. i think we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. that is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our sheriff's office regardless of circumstance. that influenced me a lot. some of the storefronts have changed. what is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. the barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dad's old army boots fixed. we would see movies after the first run. my brother and i would go there. it is nice. if you keep walking down sacramento. the nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. that is where my grandparents were brought up. th

before rodney king. you can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. that is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our sheriff's office regardless of circumstance. that influenced me a lot. some of the storefronts have changed. what is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. the barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dad's old army boots fixed. we would see movies after the first run. my brother and i would go there. it is nice. if you keep walking down sacramento. the nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. that is where my grandparents were brought up. that is th

rodney king got at the age of 39. so he lived a very relatively young life. but his legacy and the people that worked with him and followed him continues now until this day. and it continues through to the young. and as i mentioned, james orange was james orange. his daughter just passed away today. so that's kind of another pillar in that cohort, that whole king legacy that continues to go. yeah and ending on that note on the on the note of legacy may be a good moment to conclude our conversation with with ernest. so everybody join me in thanking friends for joining us today. yes. and once again we've been talking about the many lives of andrew, which ernie will now be signing on the plaza. thank you all so much for joining us here at the southern festival of books. thanks, henry. thank you. thank you. yeah, well done, sir.

. >> when riding broke out after a mostly like jury acquitted lapd officers and the beating of rodney kinght, that decision to move the trial downtown may have been the first of many that taken together would influence how the case and the verdict played out. >> the thinking was that if you have a minority jury convicting a minority defendant everything is cold. they're not gonna have any problems. >> but, prosecutor marcia clark says that there was no choice about where to try the case. >> it was always gonna be downtown, there was no discussion about it. >> until people say, well, they gave up the mostly white jury pool of santa monica and ended up in a mostly -- jury pool and -- it was all over at that point. those two don't hold their type, do it? >> no they don't. they might be right that we would be better off with a white jury. well yes. i don't think there's any disputing that now, right? but just this kind of demands that we tried the case in front of the jury that we have and we do our very best to convince them. >> then, another critical decision, this one made the judge lance i

before rodney king. you can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. that is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our sheriff's office regardless of circumstance. that influenced me a lot. some of the storefronts have changed. what is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. the barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dad's old army boots fixed. we would see movies after the first run. my brother and i would go there. it is nice. if you keep walking down sacramento. the nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. that is where my grandparents were brought up. that is th

before rodney king. you can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. i think we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. that is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our sheriff's office regardless of circumstance. that influenced me a lot. some of the storefronts have changed. what is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. the barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dad's old army boots fixed. we would see movies after the first run. my brother and i would go there. it is nice. if you keep walking down sacramento. the nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. that is where my grandparents were brought up. th

before rodney king. you can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. i think we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. that is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our sheriff's office regardless of circumstance. that influenced me a lot. some of the storefronts have changed. what is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. the barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dad's old army boots fixed. we would see movies after the first run. my brother and i would go there. it is nice. if you keep walking down sacramento. the nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. that is where my grandparents were brought up. th

before rodney king. you can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. that is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our sheriff's office regardless of circumstance. that influenced me a lot. some of the storefronts have changed. what is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. the barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dad's old army boots fixed. we would see movies after the first run. my brother and i would go there. it is nice. if you keep walking down sacramento. the nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. that is where my grandparents were brought up. that is th

moments of racially motivated violence, and that if you think about emmett till, if you think about rodney king, you know, there are are all of these flash points in our history where we not only say enough is enough, but when we say what do we have to learn collectively from this moment? i think what's different now is that with these young people and with the technology of the cell phone, they are on their phones, out of the eyes and arms of people who love them. they're watching these things repeated, repeated times, dozens and dozens of times. and i would like to know how we're going to think about the effects on an entire generation of of that kind of not the exposure per se, but the knowledge that comes with the exposure. and i think that's really very, very important because i think trayvon martin and trayvon's death and the acquittal of his murderer really are one of the hinge points of this period in time that i've called the third reconstruction. mike. my question for you right now is about the art in the book. there's there's so much beauty and poignancy in the book. it really is. an