It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
AL SHARPTONI need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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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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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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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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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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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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It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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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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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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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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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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