Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
AL SHARPTONI can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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