TED Video Summary

This video, given by a the speaker Brian Simmons, was about "The Power of Identity." This man, a lawyer, does a thorough job of explaining how feelings shape people's lives. He delves into the emotions of his listeners, saying that living poor and innocent is harder than living rich and guilty. He tells us how we, as Americans, have a hard time talking about our problems. His argument  mainly seeming to be about race, he logistically appeals to us, stating that a black man is 22 times more likely to get the death sentence  His argument was to move people to agree with his three, seemingly, main points: Wants to end death penalty, Wants to decrease prison population, and wants to have justice in the court system. He tells us that in order to be fully human, we must care about identity. To close the speech, he tells a story and to keep our eyes on the price.