I serve on the Institute of the Black World's National Commission on African-American Reparations, and we have asked the President [Barack Obama] to, by executive order, establish a commission to study reparations. He can do this without Congressional approval. While I am not optimistic, I do hope that President Obama considers this in these waning months of his Presidency.

[Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill.

References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out.

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.

I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.

I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.

Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.