Democracy Is About Criticism.

In 1967, The Students At San Francisco State Invited The Poet Amiri Baraka To The Campus For A Semester. He Attracted Other Influential Black Writers Such As Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What Emerged Was Something We Called The Community Communications Program. That's How I Got Involved; I Got Involved In A Little Play

Leadership Has To Be Focused On Some Very Radical Ideas That Only We As 21st Century People Can Talk About: Making Sure People Have A Livelihood, Making Sure People Receive A Living Wage, Making Sure The Environment, The Mother Earth, Is Embraced And Cherished And Not Destroyed. Making Sure People Are Healthy In What They Eat, Making Sure We Hold People And Corporations Accountable For The Damage They Do Not Only To Our Environment But To Our Institutions.

Yes, (bush Is A) Racist. We All Knew That But The World Is Only Finding It Out Now. As Texas's Governor, Bush Led A Penitentiary System That Executed More People Than All The Other U.s. States Together. And Most Of The People Who Died From (the) Death Penalty Were Afro-americans Or Hispanics. (bush) Promoted A Conservative Program, Designed To Eliminate Everything Americans Had Accomplished So Far In Matters Of Race And Equality.

We Have To Be That Wedge That Drives The Question And Asks The Hard Questions

What He [barack Obama] Does To Change The World - That's What's Important.