And then i had another trial after this was done in another jurisdiction that shall go unnamed, and i would say there were maybe 5 percent of the jurors, potential jurors, who had had meaningful contact with a person of a different race or ethnicity and thats really what this is about. One of my least favorite words is the word tolerance because, you know, i tolerate Brussel Sprouts but if you simply tolerate the diversity that is america, you are going to, you are aspiring for mediocrity. When we have, and this gets back to your question, when we have leaders that embrace diversity and that build a culture that says, you know what, if you want to compete in the Global Economy tomorrow, pal, youve got to embrace diversity. Why does cocacola write a brief to the United States Supreme Court and General Motors and microsoft on issues of diversity and Higher Education . Because they know if they want to get ahead, theyve got to embrace that diversity. If they want to continue to be a fortu
More hate crimes cases. I want to be, for those of you over 50, remember that maytag commercial, the guy is sitting there waiting for that phone to ring . I want to be that room. I want to have nothing to do. I want to take my niece up on her offer to golf at the present side owe because i want to have time on my hands. But we see this headwind of intolerance that is a growth industry, i real estate gret to tell you. We see it manifested in our hate crimes practice, so many cases involving teenagers who have been recruited at a young age to desecrate mosques, to do so many other unspeakable things in communities across this country. So we have to get to work and we are, in fact, getting to work and i am so impressed at the partnerships that have been out here. Im so impressed that we recognize that bullying is no longer simply the bullying of your fists but its the bullying that can come through the use of twitter, through the use of other social media. We did a case, again a hate crim
Good morning, everybody. Lots of people know each other here, wonderful. It will be a great day. Welcome, everybody, welcome to San Francisco. To some of you, welcome to the presidio, welcome to this absolutely gorgeous futures without violence center. I want to start by thanking futures without violence and esther solar for giving us this beautiful space to meet in today. Is esther here . I havent seen her. Well thank her later. They made this Space Available for us. Good morning, my name is me linda hague for those of you who dont know me. I was appointed by president obama a little more than two years ago to be United States attorney and it is my incredible honor to represent the president , the Obama Administration here in the Northern District of california. Welcome to the stop bullying summit. Im a federal prosecutor so it may seem odd that here we are talking about bullying and we asked all of you to be here and i want to explain the origin of that and why this happened. You peo
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Leadership. The programs i look to and i say, id like my kid to go to this school, it starts out with clear leadership at the top. It then starts out with clear policy direction so that the rules are set out in a very clear and transparent way. It continues with partnerships so that there is, you know, there are communitybased partners, a recognition that this isnt just a teacher responsibility, its really a community responsibility. And its like so many things, its about culture development. You know, what is your Institutional Culture . I work with a lot of Police Departments in a different world where were dealing with serious issues that have occurred and were trying to develop a culture that ensures effective policing and constitutional policing which go hand in hand. And we talk a lot about how do you change the culture . This is what its about. I think this is an area where the bay area has a leg up. 20 years ago or 21 years ago i spent a year here, basically, i was doing a fede