{"id":31582,"date":"2018-12-07T19:06:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T19:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caseyfamilyv2.wpengine.com\/ujamaa-place-keynote\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T00:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:39:07","slug":"discurso-de-apertura-de-ujamaa-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casey.org\/es\/ujamaa-place-keynote\/","title":{"rendered":"Prop\u00f3sito, perspectiva y posibilidad: ayudar a los hombres que han estado en prisi\u00f3n a reinsertarse en la sociedad."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-section light fresh-text single wp-block-fresh-text backgrounds-and-margins-aware-block margin-top margin-bottom\">\n <div class=\"container mx-auto px-5\">\n\n \n \n <!-- The CTA is moved up next to the title when in the Head Section style -->\n \n  <div class=\"callout\"><p><!-- wp:paragraph -->Casey Family Programs President and CEO\u00a0Dr. William C. Bell spoke at Ujamaa Place\u2019s 5<span data-fontsize=\"10\">th<\/span>\u00a0Annual \u201cCelebrating Every Step Forward\u201d Breakfast on October\u00a011, 2018. Ujamaa Place is a nonprofit organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota, that assists young African American men who are economically disadvantaged and who face multiple barriers to becoming stable and\u00a0productive members of the community.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->Dr. Bell noted that purpose, perspective and possibility are the three components of the transformation process that are required to work together when it comes to helping someone transform their own life.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\u201cWe need to get to a place where every man that we are seeking to restore, every man that we&#8217;re seeking to help transform can say with conviction and can say without\u00a0any doubt: \u2018I am reclaiming myself.\u00a0I am reclaiming my children. I am reclaiming my family, and I am reclaiming my purpose. I am finding my way back home. I am reclaiming my right to life. I am reclaiming my right to happiness, and I&#8217;m reclaiming my right to the pursuit of happiness\u2019,\u201d\u00a0Dr. Bell said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n \n <!-- conversly to above, we need to not show the CTA here if it's the Head Section style -->\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"featured-video wp-block-featured-video\">\n  <div class=\"bg-warm-ceramic py-[128px] text-revolver\">\n    <div class=\"container mx-auto px-5\">\n\n      \n      <div class=\"embed\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2018 Ujamma Place - Dr. William C. Bell Keynote\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8Uts82szAXs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content-section light fresh-text single wp-block-fresh-text backgrounds-and-margins-aware-block margin-top margin-bottom\">\n <div class=\"container mx-auto px-5\">\n\n \n   <h2>Transcript<\/h2>\n  \n <!-- The CTA is moved up next to the title when in the Head Section style -->\n \n  <div class=\"callout\"><p>I want to begin by thanking the Board and Otis and the team at Ujamaa for inviting me to spend this morning with you. And just acknowledge that I\u2019ve reached that point in life where I have to take my glasses off to see.<\/p>\n<p>[Laughter]<\/p>\n<p>And that even when I take them off, I still can\u2019t see.<\/p>\n<p>[Laughter]<\/p>\n<p>But I want to thank you for the important work that you\u2019re doing with finding a way to give men a next chance. And I say a next chance because sometimes we become comfortable with the notion that you can get a second chance. But if most of you in this room are like me, it took a little bit more than two chances for us to get to this place that we are and we\u2019re still in a place \u2014<\/p>\n<p>[Applause]<\/p>\n<p>And we\u2019re still in a place of becoming, because we haven\u2019t become yet what we will become. And that is the way that I see men and women and children who have not yet arrived at that place that has been set for them.<\/p>\n<p>As I was preparing for this morning, I was reminded that the namesake for the community of Saint Paul wrote in his letter to the Romans about changing lives. The Apostle Paul wrote, \u201cAnd be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As I start this conversation this morning, I am reminded that for incarcerated men and women, and just people who have fallen on hard times, who haven\u2019t achieved all of the glory that their lives still holds. For them, they face almost every barrier that is possible to disrupt them and to disrupt their pathway.<\/p>\n<p>When I talk about incarcerated people, I\u2019m not just talking about those who have been held inside of walls and behind bars, but I\u2019m also talking about people who have been incarcerated by the life-stealing of hopelessness. Because being found in a place of hopelessness can have you more bound up than any set of walls or set of bars can ever make you. And until we restore hope in people\u2019s lives, we have not yet set them free. And so \u2014<\/p>\n<p>[Applause]<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 when they face the circumstances of no place to live, when they face the circumstances of I can\u2019t vote anymore, when they face the circumstances of I don\u2019t have enough education to get a job and I can\u2019t seem to find my way, I\u2019ve been released but I don\u2019t even have enough money to make it through the next week. When you\u2019re faced with that, and you\u2019re faced with you have a record and therefore I can\u2019t hire you; if it wasn\u2019t for organizations like Ujamaa Place in it, if it wasn\u2019t for people like you, failure would be all but inevitable for each one of the men whose lives you\u2019ve touched.<\/p>\n<p>And so, I start this morning just simply by saying thank you not only for the lives that you have touched and the ones that you\u2019re touching now, but I\u2019m saying thank you because I know that you\u2019re in this room because you believe that we can touch more lives as we go forward.<\/p>\n<p>The statistics would tell us that 95 percent of all of the people who get incarcerated will ultimately return to our communities. Those same statistics tell us that within the first year of returning 50 percent of them will actually be rearrested. Those same statistics tell us that 66 percent of those people in the first three years will be rearrested. Those same statistics suggest to us that about 75 percent of those folks within the first five years would also be rearrested. And those statistics would suggest that there\u2019s something wrong with what we\u2019re doing, and that we can\u2019t keep doing the same thing hoping that we\u2019re going to get it better the next time.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to do something different.<\/p>\n<p>[Applause]<\/p>\n<p>And yet before we decide that we\u2019re at least 25 percent successful, I don\u2019t want to suggest to you that the 25 percent that don\u2019t get rearrested succeeded, because many of them are dead. Because the community that they were taken away from didn\u2019t change for the better while they were gone, and they are not prepared after they\u2019ve been away to come back and be a part of making it better. And so, for me, I thank Ujamaa Place because you\u2019re on a pathway that says that if we don\u2019t turn around. I think about what they said about Noah after that flood: if something doesn\u2019t happen to the hearts of men, the same thing is going to happen again. It\u2019s time for us to make a decision.<\/p>\n<p>Now I took my watch off because I was told that you don\u2019t have all morning.<\/p>\n<p>[Laughter]<\/p>\n<p>Get to where you\u2019re going and sit down.<\/p>\n<p>[Laughter]<\/p>\n<p>So, I\u2019m going to try to be brief this morning. I told the timekeeper who\u2019s going to be waving those flags in the back I don\u2019t have my glasses on so I can\u2019t see you.<\/p>\n<p>[Laughter]<\/p>\n<p>But what I want to say to you this morning can be summed up in three words: purpose, perspective and possibility. These are the three components of the transformation process that are required to work together if we are going to succeed not in us transforming somebody\u2019s life, but in us helping them to transform their own lives.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s first talk about purpose. As donors in this room and supporters in this room, as staff members in this room, it\u2019s clear that your purpose is to be a conduit, to be a vessel through which resources and opportunities can be passed on to those whose lives need to be changed. But essential to being able to live a transformed life is to have a renewed sense of purpose about who you are and about why you are who you are. A sense of purpose provides a life pathway to follow, and purpose drives us and sustains us as we have a quest to find meaning in our life.<\/p>\n<p>How many of you know what it feels like to wake up and wonder why am I even here? What worth do I have? Can I even do anything for my children? Can I even do anything for myself?<\/p>\n<p>I would say to you that in the transformation process, there are three aspects of purpose that we need to focus on and that we need to get a handle on how do we make this happen.<\/p>\n<p>The first aspect is restoration. We need to find a way to restore that which has been taken away, to restore that which has been lost, and to restore that which has been forfeited by a person\u2019s own actions. Because when we run afoul of the law, we should not blame someone else for what we did regardless of what our lives were like, because not everybody who lived the same life that I lived did the same things that I did. So, there is a circumstance and an element of choice and decision making, but in restoration we can help restore the capacity to make the right decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The second element of purpose is reclamation, or reclaiming that which has been taken away, reclaiming your right place, reclaiming that which is your birthright.<\/p>\n<p>The third aspect of purpose is repatriation. Now most of us think about repatriation as bringing one back to their country, or bringing money that \u2013 like me, you guys I\u2019m sure having those offshore bank accounts that \u2014<\/p>\n<p>[Laughter]<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 you want to repatriate to this country. But repatriation is about helping the person return home. You see, a man who does not know home is incapable of being at home. Even those of us who have the capacity to take vacations, so you\u2019re away from home by choice, there comes a point in time, regardless of how much beach and sunlight and ocean you have around you, something inside of you says, \u201cI need to go home.\u201d And when you have no home, it\u2019s hard to know who you are.<\/p>\n<p>As we are looking at restoration, we need to help to restore each of these men to their family, restore them to their community and restore them to that place where they know that they are in full control of their own destiny. I call it a process because there are no five or six counseling sessions, no five or six meetings that you can go to that will complete this process. This is a process that you will endure for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n<p>And we need to get to a place where every man that we are seeking to restore, every man that we\u2019re seeking to help transform can say with conviction and can say without any doubt: \u201cI am reclaiming myself.\u201d \u201cI am reclaiming my children. I am reclaiming my family, and I am reclaiming my purpose. I am finding my way back home. I am reclaiming my right to life. I am reclaiming my right to happiness, and I\u2019m reclaiming my right to the pursuit of happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We can play a significant role in helping them to do that. But the thing I want us to understand as we walk away from this morning is that when you help men, you have an immeasurable impact on the future of their children, the future of their families and the future of their communities. And there is no such thing as a throwaway life. The sentencing project suggests that there are 10 million children in this country, most of them under the age of 10, who have experienced the incarceration of a parent. So, when you change his life, you are, in the same process, changing their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The second component of transformation is that of perspective. You see, for the formerly incarcerated, this means changing the perspective that he has of himself. It means helping him to believe in himself, and helping him to see himself in this world as he would like to be and it means helping him to see himself as a man of value. Helping him to see himself as a man with skills. Helping him to see himself as a man with talents. Helping him to see himself as someone who has something to contribute.<\/p>\n<p>As a Ujamaa donor or a Ujamaa team member, you have an opportunity to help him change that perspective, and we also need to change our perspectives. You see, changing our perspective requires us to think about what we see when we look at one of these men. What we see with our eyes is one thing, but what we see with our minds when we look at someone through our eyes is a different thing, because the eyes cannot ascribe meaning to what we see. It is what\u2019s in the mind \u2013 the preconceived notions that are already invested in the mind, the preconceived notions that are already embedded in the heart \u2013 that gives meaning, that ascribes meaning to what we see with our eyes. I have been saying for some time that what you see when you look at me has more to do with who you think I am, has more to do with what you think I\u2019m capable of, and has more to do with what you\u2019re willing to do to help me, than anything I could ever do or say. What you see when you look at me. If this same William Bell had walked in here with his Jordans, with shoelaces untied \u2013 now, I don\u2019t wear Jordans, just in case you didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>[Laughter]<\/p>\n<p>Nothing against Jordan, nothing against Nike. I just don\u2019t wear them. But if I had walked in here with holes in my pants, with no shirt, no tie, with maybe cut-off sleeves, and my Yankee cap \u2013 which I did have on when I came in \u2013 but if I walked in here like that and you saw me, would you have had the same impression of me that you had with all of those wonderful glorified words that are written pieces of paper about what I\u2019ve done? But what I\u2019ve done is what God has blessed me to do. It is not necessarily who I am.<\/p>\n<p>Who I am is the little boy who was born in rural Mississippi. What I am is the little boy who was living under the old times of plantation ownership that said that if your family can\u2019t work, you can\u2019t live in the house that we own because this is our land. They called it sharecropping but it wasn\u2019t sharecropping. It was just cropping, because we didn\u2019t get any of the money. What I am is the little boy who was made homeless under that institution before I was one year old because all of my older siblings had moved away, and the folks told my mama that she had to take her five children, me being the baby, and get off their land and get out of their house.<\/p>\n<p>What you see when you look at me requires us to change our perspective. But in order for the men that we\u2019re working with to create a space where they can change their perspective is that the man himself needs to be able to remove those images of himself that he has been fed about himself and taught to believe about himself all of his life. For us to be helpful in that process, we need to be able to remove from ourselves those images that say to us he can only be this much. He can only achieve that much. We need to understand that the next chance that we are offering here to these men is no less than the next chance that we would offer to one of our children. Because if something is not good enough for our own children, then it is not good enough for anybody else\u2019s child and \u2014<\/p>\n<p>[Applause]<\/p>\n<p>The third component of transformation is possibility. I dare any one of you to believe in the possibility of a transformed life, and to believe so deeply in the possibility of a transformed life that you would commit this morning to not only just giving your money but giving yourself \u2013 giving of yourself to engage in helping to transform one life, because the return on that investment cannot be measured in what you\u2019ve given to the least of these, my brother.<\/p>\n<p>But I dare you to rise up this morning and say I am going to give like I\u2019ve never given before because my future depends on it and the reality is all of our futures depend on each one of us. The sign is up.<\/p>\n<p>[Laughter]<\/p>\n<p>My watch goes back on.<\/p>\n<p>But what I want to just say to you is that this type of transformation is the hope that we should have for every woman and every child and every man.<\/p>\n<p>[Music begins playing in background.]<\/p>\n<p>She said that he couldn\u2019t see the sign but I can play a tune and he can hear that.<\/p>\n<p>[Laughter]<\/p>\n<p>But this is the hope for every Ujamaa man: we live because you live. We succeed because you succeed. We are who we are because you are who you are.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for inviting me this morning, and God bless you all.<\/p>\n<p>[Applause]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n \n <!-- conversly to above, we need to not show the CTA here if it's the Head Section style -->\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"call-to-action-banner wp-block-call-to-action-banner content-section light\">\n\n  <div class=\"bg-warm-ceramic text-center py-[48px] md:py-[150px]\">\n <div class=\"container mx-auto px-5\">\n  <div class=\"pb-8\">\n <span class=\"label\">\n Dr. William C. Bell\n <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-block ml-[5px] print:hidden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casey.org\/wp-content\/themes\/casey-v2\/public\/build\/assets\/brush-stroke-preheader-post-BDcrNgUR.svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>\n <\/span>\n <\/div>\n  <h2>A voice of hope<\/h2>\n <div class=\"text-salt-box mt-7 mb-7 inline-block w-full sm:max-w-[720px] lg:w-[720px]\"><div class=\"my-6 text-salt-box print:my-0\">\n<p>Dr. Bell frequently shares his expertise and messages of hope in appearances before policymakers, child welfare leaders and others. Explore this collection for transcripts and videos of his speeches and public testimony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n  <div>\n  <a class=\"btn font-bold\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casey.org\/resources\/dr-william-c-bell-speeches-and-testimony\/\" target=\"\">Speeches and Testimony<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Dr. William C. 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