While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.

While people are prepared to talk about Social Security, about marriage equality, about any number of other issues, people are not prepared - your layperson is not prepared to have a conversation about foreign policy.

African-American people adore President Obama.

When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.

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

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.

Voting is not the most you can do; it's really the least you can do.