North Carolina is a fascinating state, because you've got these urban areas. You've got the Piedmont Triangle - Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point.

Don't believe the hype that black North Carolinians are not voting. We've heard this time and time again. It's just not the truth.

I especially appreciated hearing the President [Barack Obama] affirm that "black lives matter" and that it means that some citizens are feeling more pain, and experiencing more negative effects than others, and he offered up the stats. He also indicated that black lives matter does not negate the fact that blue lives matter. He ably walked the tightrope, here, between affirming both black life and police life.

In trying times, I like to remember that you have to keep walking because you can't see what is around the corner.

People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system.

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

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