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

Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth, giving opportunities to other people, it's only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.

What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through--that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.

The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple - talk about class and hope no one notices.

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