board room accountability plan to diversity corporate boards in this country. you know of that work. we re now going to work together because the controllers a treasurers can protect their rerement security for their members and at the same time reject this very flawed way of mass incarceration. i m glad you alluded to that because one of the things that is so troubling to me, obviously from a civil rights background, is that the administration that is saying we re going to use these privatized prisons, we re going to do what we ve got to do with the fact that, yes, they re making money, but we re going back in there despite what the obama administration did. at the same time, we re getting tougher on crime. even the weekend of philando castile, he writes a washington post piece, attorney general jeff sessions, he personally writes one, tough on crime. then they also want to not deal with public education, not deal
recreation cannabis is 100 times safer than alcohol. you can t die from cannabis. you can t overdose on cannabis, and cannabis as a plant is not addictive in the same ways that alcohol is. there are so many different avenues that we need to discuss this in our community and better understand this. because if we don t get a handle on this, we will continue to be at the mercy of crooked law enforcent and racist laws. for example, this morning, we have all been tkibout philando castile. another horrible situation in american history. and what s the first thing the police came out and said about him. oh, there was cannabis in his system. michael brown, cannabis in his system. sandra bland. sandra bland, cannabis in her system. trayvon martin, cannabis in his system. it becomes a part to make us criminals, to make us come off as if we re not in control of our lives when the white population smokes just as much.
but then friday happened. another jury, another verdict. the policeman that killed fernando castile killed live, on facebook live, as his girlfriend filmed it. not guilty. did nothing wrong. well, reverend, you ve seen this before. you ve fought on these. in some cases you won, many you didn t. but what really got to me about father s day, what is not being told is, yes, his girlfriend filmed it, yes, it was on facebook live, but her little daughter was sitting in the back of that car. and her little daughter saw this man that goes with her mother riddle riddled with bullets and a jury said there s nothing wrong. even though they said he was going for his i.d., license,