Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.

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

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.

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.

Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.

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

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.