Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.

We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died. The groundwork for the move steadily to the right happened with the Reagan administration. People want to elevate him to some mythic level; they have their own reason for doing that.

When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does - and who he has at the table.

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.