The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations - that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor.

Obviously there are some organizations that go out on the street and say we want an end to the capitalist system. But obviously that is not going to happen as a result of just assuming that stance.

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.