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 people, everybody in this room, has been involved in this issue and is doing incredible work on this issue and we were so honored to be a part of it and to meet with all of you and to speak with you about it. The origin is that as the United States attorney, the administration wants me, wants all the United States attorneys, to go out into the community. Its actually a very different role for the United States attorney is envisioned by this administration. This administration, the president , attorney general holder, they want the u. S. Attorneys to go out into the attorney to talk to the communities in our dist
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 people, everybody in this room, has been involved in this issue and is doing incredible work on this issue and we were so honored to be a part of it and to meet with all of you and to speak with you about it. The origin is that as the United States attorney, the administration wants me, wants all the United States attorneys, to go out into the community. Its actually a very different role for the United States attorney is envisioned by this administration. This administration, the president , attorney general holder, they want the u. S. Attorneys to go out into the attorney to talk to the communities in our dist
Or Something Like that, 91, and it was remarkable to me because we did a questionnaire because the case had a lot of publicity. And id say 99 percent of the people noted, the potential jurors noted they have daily and meaningful contact with a person of another race or religion. 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 embrac
Are healthy and safe and feel welcome and they are allowed to learn and they are allowed to thrive. This day is devoted to help all of us deepen our understanding of this issue of the problem through data, through research, through anecdotes, to put Real Solutions in place, to comply with new state and draw laws on bullying and to measure our progress. Its a promise we want to join you in keeping to our children and our youth in california. Some of you know that we started this summit yesterday with a screening of the documentary film, bully, to 3,000 students in San Francisco from San Franciscos Public Schools. The superintendent of schools youre going to hear from in a minute, he was there, i know ter Theresa Sparks was there, i was so proud of San Francisco in being there because the superintendent, hes, you can tell hes a teacher because he took control of that room. There was a thousand people in that room, he had them all raise their hands to quiet them down, it was beautiful. Yo
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