These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.

What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal. Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage. Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.

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

The essence of American racism is disrespect.

If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

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.