There has been much talk about the value of diversity on the bench. A recent decision of the Connecticut Supreme Court is evidence that different experiences and history indeed provide different perspectives. The raw, painful and blunt language in State v. Belcher about the corrosive effect of racial stereotypes on generations of young Black people appears to reflect a perspective that must be lived to be clearly understood. That perspective was provided by its author, Justice Raheem Mullins, who is Black.