I think the takeaway from not holding President Obama accountable is, no matter how enthusiastic you are about Hillary Clinton, no matter how enthusiastic you are, the first thing that needs to happen is that people need to start planning how to hold her accountable.

Bernie Sanders just seems to not have the personality to engage with people at the grassroots level.

[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.

I always want to read something about our people's enslavement near the 4th. To keep it light, I also read Rolanda Watts' "Destiny Lingers" She is a sisterfriend and I ran into her at Essence. Then, I finished Paul Taylor's "The Next America." Taylor is the Executive VP at the Pew Research Center, and he uses their excellent data base to talk about the coming "generational showdown" which we are experiencing, at some level, in Black America.

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.

I do know that there are down-ballot people who have run on the Green Party, and some have been successful.

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