The essence of American racism is disrespect.

Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country.

Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you see, folks in your neighborhood doing certain things that, are irresponsible. You know, the thing I always think about, you get up early in the morning to go to work and there's some dude outside drinking and you come home and the same dude is outside drinking hanging on the corner. And then this engenders a level of anger I think and a level of shame.

Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.

The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.

The essence of American racism is disrespect.