 Our next panelist is Mike Love, who's with SATX4, and Black Lives Matter, and Black Lives Matter. Here's Mike. Good evening, everyone. Good evening, everyone. All right, the mic is on. I want to thank the facilitators for this invitation to sit in stand before you as well as break bread with my brothers and sisters in this struggle against the prison industrial complex. Again, my name is Mike Love, one of the co-founders of SATX4, which was burned, wow, about a year ago, with the non-indict of Darren Wilson. So as the world watched another white officer be acquitted of any and all charges, and a young black male being humanized all across the media, I was outraged. That was the turning point in my life, which allowed me the opportunity to sit at the table. I believe in pictures worth a thousand words, so I want to paint a picture for you real quick, nothing about me and what I do. If I can have all the men, nothing against the women here, because the picture I'm going to paint stems from, all the men, please come forward, all the men, please, real quick, all the men, all the men, all the men, because this is going to be perfect, all the men. All right, so don't hold this against me, but all the white men are staying right here on the stage, all the white men are going to the right, which is staying side by side. If you identify as Hispanic, Latino, I want you to stay right in front of them, make a line across. Then I need all the black men to stay in front of our Hispanic brothers real quick. All right, okay. All right, so now this is interesting because... Where do you have to mix people? Well, where do you want to be tonight? You want to be mixed in right here. Okay, that's all I'm going to put you right here. So statistically, the data shows that my dear brother Maximo said it best when he quoted it. In a perfect world, we all would live and live free. But in a society that we do live in, one out of 17 white males will be incarcerated in his lifetime. One out of 17, right? So we don't have 17 at one, two, three, four, five, six. So we have to kind of stretch this number out, right? So kind of just spread your arms out double length. Yeah, spread it out double length. So just imagine 17 white men up here. Unfortunately, we don't have 17. So this gentleman, and I'm not speaking anything of your life, is the one that's born in prison. All right. Here we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Exactly seven individuals that the criminal justice system looks at. And we say this gentleman right here comes down right here. One out of six Hispanic males will find himself in a prison industrial complex, right? All right. Now, one out of three black men, one out of three. So one, two, three. So you're going to be representative of him, right? So he's going to find himself. No, that's fine. You can just stand right there. One out of three black men in this country is going to find himself in prison. So I've never been good at math. I always needed like pictures. And so what I want you all to take from this is, again, double arm, double arm. This is 17 white men. They're all down the same crime, right? This gentleman is the one who's going to represent the one out of 17. One out of six Hispanics and one out of three. One out of three black men is going to find himself incarcerated. One out of six Hispanics and then one out of 17 white men. I'm going to say one last time. One out of three black men will find himself incarcerated. One out of six and one out of 17. So three are going to 17 how many times? We're my mathematicians. Three are going to 17 how many times? Almost six. Is it one out of six? Is it 18? We're rounding up, right? So almost six is what we're saying. So imagine one, two, three, four, five. And my brother, mixed brother right here because they're not identifying as black when he does his crime. That's the picture. Even half of the white men that will find themselves incarcerated. Y'all may have a series of them around the clock. I would like to say what I'm doing as an individual in this community which is very unique, San Antonio's unique community in that San Antonio's the good old boy city. It doesn't want to address the inequalities that exist in America. As a good old boy city it will do everything in its power to silence the voices and paint over the atrocities that are going on in this city. San Antonio is leads the nation when it comes to we're talking about police brutality and officers who use excessive force. So if you were ever in an officer engaged situation and you had a complaint, the records show that San Antonio leads this country with more complaints than any other city. But again, as Maximo and my brother said, you will not know that because of the good old boy system. America was founded on, repeat after me, white supremacy. Now if that makes you uncomfortable, I will push you a little further. America was built upon white supremacy. And what does white supremacy do? It invades, it takes over, it controls and it profits off the backs of those of whom it oppresses, whether it be the Native Americans as we push them far west and colonize, and I say we were talking about as the white men colonize this country. And then brought over slaves and instituted slavery and created laws, documents that we quote today, constitutions and in far reaching amendments we still continue the cycle of oppression. So we got rid of slavery, but what are we replacing with? Jim Crow laws. What did Jim Crow laws do? So segregation, it continued to segregate to divide us. And then when we finally abolished Jim Crow laws, what did we do? We instituted what my dear brother and sisters have been talking about, the war on drugs. Why did white people flee the cities and go out to rural areas? Because that cycle of segregation was still being perpetuated. Blacks, browns and poor whites are marginalized and inferior and we can't be around them. So as whites moved out, the cities were infiltrated with drugs. And so the system of oppression continued. So Jim Crow was replaced with the new Jim Crow, what we call a prison industrial complex, mass incarceration. So the picture I'm painting for you with men, let me paint it for you with women. There's not enough women to paint this picture, but you can write this down. Because I believe what I'm doing is educating the people, educating my people about facts and numbers. They say men lie, women lie, but numbers don't. One in 19 women, black women, will be incarcerated in her lifetime. One in 45 Hispanic women will be incarcerated in their lifetime. One in 118 white women will be incarcerated in their lifetime. So I continue to educate on using sources such as the ACLU.org, the MartialProject.org, and the Sinister Project.org and Maximum Center Best. How can we talk about mass incarceration without talking about what Broaddus said? Dr. King asked this quote I want to share with you. He says, human progress is neither automatic or nor inevitable. Every step towards justice, which we the people believe in justice, but the criminal injustice that doesn't believe in justice. Let me pause in my quote about Martin Luther King and just add this caveat. Lady Justice is not blind. Follow me. Lady Justice was never blind. Why would you blindfold someone as blind? White supremacy blindfolded her. So now we get to tell Lady Justice what she should do and how she must act with the power of the pen. We talked about changing laws, legislation. So we the people who believe in justice must continue to do now. I'm picking up the quote from Martin Luther King. He said, human progress is either automatic or inevitable. Every step towards the goal of justice, which we all believe in, requires sacrifice, say sacrifice. Requires suffering, say suffering. And finally requires struggle. Who here is willing to sacrifice? Who's here willing to struggle? Who's here willing to suffer? My sister Sasha and Kathy, and then we have, is it jittery? You struggle. You know what that's like. But it requires, and I close with this quote, the tireless exertions and past and concern of dedicated individuals. You all, right here, can embody what Dr. King wanted in the goal towards justice. Sacrifice, struggle, suffering. We can't give up. We can't stop talking about this.