the sociologist at rice university has said that houston, texasis university has said that houston, texas is the most diverse city in america. houston, texas is ethnically and demographically today what america will be ethnically and demographically in the year 2050, which means we are the experiment in america for how races can get along. but until we are willing to be as brave and as truthful as you have been, nothing will change. the experiment will not yield any new data. we will simply do over and over again, what we have done over and over before until as they said, we get sick and tired of being sick and tired. and so it must be different this time. i have to tell you. at my church, it is easy to not talk about racism. at my church, it is easy to dismiss as politics, the economics of hundreds of years of systemic racism, but not talking and not acting is the path to destruction. and we can watch that on the news every night and asked if thatis on the news every night and asked if that is the future we want for ourselves and can ijust have the privilege, i would like to say a word t