Upholding systemic inequality and injustice makes individuals complicit in creating a society with injustice and inequality. Despite economic circumstances, fixing this is in everyone's best interest and requires learning how to apologize when mistakes are made.
The argument for ending poverty in the United States should shift from a moral one to an efficiency one. Entrenched poverty makes poverty for everyone, and fixing this issue would be in everyone's economic interest, including struggling lower-class white individuals that feel they don't get any breaks.
Mass incarceration can lead to people being indifferent to the victimization of others and hostile to correction, change, reform, and justice. The U.S. criminal justice system puts too many people behind bars and we need to reconsider who we put in prison.
Bryan Stevenson discusses the failure of integration and the need for a Marshall Plan for the black community in America. He reflects on his own history and the challenges faced by his enslaved great-grandparents.