We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.

Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.

Tavis Smiley lost lots of corporate support after he was critical of President [Barack] Obama.

One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.

I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.

This was in 2004, and it told me that President [Barack] Obama intended to be very careful and noncontroversial in addressing race matters. I

Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.