Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
AL SHARPTONAnd that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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