conversation without themselves becoming defensive about the question of race. but the problem was that the defense was very clearly injecting racialized assumptions, playing on the notion that they had a predominantly white jury and playing on the idea that these folks, too, might be afraid of an african-american teenager suggesting that this african-american teenager was sort of inherently criminal and therefore deserved tor followed and questioned. in a forward looking way, simply going right at that assumption and suggesting that that assumption was the in the mind necessary for a murder too, i think -- again, even in those closing arguments you decide. you decide. no, you don't just do that. you have to bring your jury along and make a clear case. >> toure, i think a lot of people are reacting to this looking at at what this verdict means in the larger picture as we try to get above this and reflect how this means our social contract works in this