 Good to be with you this afternoon. Again I'm Richie Butler to see you pass the same group community United Methodist Church and the founder of Project Unity. What Project Union is about is bridging divides. You're participating together we dying. I'm gonna talk about what you're about to embark upon because some of you like why am I here? What's what's this about? So you're about to engage in an exercise in listening. When it comes to tough topics most of the time we don't do a very good job of listening to each other. When it comes to race we already have a strong opinion and some of us shaped by our parents by experiences but we already have an opinion and we don't do a great job of listening. You're going to get a question. Everyone will have a chance to respond to a specific question that you will pull and when it's not your turn to respond to the question your job is to do what listen and when it is your turn everybody else's job is simply to listen. We are simply trying to listen to each other and engage each other and check this out and to humanize each other. I was a little nervous to meet new people but it was fine. Yeah everyone was really nice. I think it was interesting because it was a lot of different people from all over so I kind of have different perspectives about things that are going on and how different things and actions that people have affect other people around like our area. Honestly I know because I want to get other people's perspective and see what they had to say not only from their opinions but from their feelings as to you know the situation dealing with racing but not just race but also other situations going on around the community. I learned that we can't always go into a situation or be in situations thinking one way. You have to really look at it from not only your perspective but the other person's perspective and maybe even a third person's perspective of the situation. The kids came and seemed to really enjoy being together and having a conversation so just to be able to bring young people together to have this type of discussion in a safe space and for them to understand that we as the NOAA Texas Conference are here to support them as they have these discussions is just all that.