As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't marry in your city.

Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

There is no coloration to rights. Everybody has rights. I don't care who you are, where you come from. You got rights. I got rights. All God's children got rights.

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia