Archives & History Committee Interview of Judge Charles Randy Butler, Jr. on Aug [58:08-62:16]

over the times you've seen it? Well, you know, I've been so, you know, it's been about nine years, since I've been hands-on, direction of the law, you know, one of the things I've think has happened is, particularly today, you know, government tries to fix too many problems, they pay us too many laws, they pay us too many, let's try to fix it with money, and that's not the kind of practice we have lawyers and youth lawyers sitting every day, but it just sort of strikes me that we don't weigh down what the balance was all of us to do, and but in terms of the practice of law, you know, just say, I've been away from it for so long, and it's all again. So, is there anything else about your career or about the courts, the profession, the current mine, these are like to leave the viewers of this, well, you know, I think we've pretty much covered the game, but the point of what I've done in my career, and we could talk about it in the beginning of the case, which all day, what, what, what, what, what, what, what gratitude you have in terms of your life and career and what gratitude, well, I thank God every day for putting me in the position we put me in. I know it was a God thing, I'm convinced of that. I tried everything, I tried, I did everything else in a respectable legal practice, and this came to me, and I felt that I alluded to it earlier at the end of the day. That day, you know, I was in the courtroom being sworn in, I could tell that that that would probably take it to the end of the day, and I know it to this day. And so, it was everything. The wonderful part of my life, as I said earlier, the part of my life I mean now is equally as wonderful, if not better, but enough totally different ways, family, friends, different groups I'm involved in, well, I didn't mention I've been involved since about nine years, the racial reconciliation word, but five of us, six of us started one of the groups, which Jane Johan, her, circuit carer, Jane and I, and the three black pastors, and one for the minister, went to Mississippi to borrow the man, the mission in the Mississippi program, that they had for years over there who had heard racial reconciliation in a group involved in the video, it was called the Plays, and I'm still active for the hit, and we've done it in the effects of incredible gatherings of leaders in the black and white community over the near, the tribal store, broken population relations. I was like to get more information about that for myself. Yeah, I think after this week, yeah, it was possible. And, you know, I've been involved with one of the members of the Plays, he was in Britain for a year, was the head of some of the Baptist conventions, and you talk about a powerhouse in racial reconciliation, but he, he has really led the ways with discharges, which is the redemption church, it was also a Baptist church, I was interested in what we do. So, so that thing on my heart is in things like that, and I was not allowed to share, that's what happened. Well, look, for the record, I'm Charles Potts, I want to thank you so much, John, for coming in and speaking with me on this legacy project, my honor and privilege to have you. Thanks for coming in on to me, thank you very much.