Democracy Is About Criticism.

The Second Amendment Comes From The Right To Protect Themselves From Slave Revolts, And From Uprisings By Native Americans. A Revolt From People Who Were Stolen From Their Land Or Revolt From People Whose Land Was Stolen From, That's What The Genesis Of The Second Amendment Is.

The Civil Rights Movement Didn't Deal With The Issue Of Political Disenfranchisement In The Northern Cities. It Didn't Deal With The Issues That Were Happening In Places Like Detroit, Where There Was A Deep Process Of Deindustrialization Going On. So You Have This Response Of Angry Young People, With A War Going On In Vietnam, A Poverty Program That Was Insufficient, And Police Brutality. All These Things Gave Rise To The Black Power Movement. The Black Power Movement Was Not A Separation From The Civil Rights Movement, But A Continuation Of This Whole Process Of Democratization.

When You Have Powerful Unions, You Have A Working Class That Is Politicized.

Hollywood Is Designed To Check The Box Office On Monday Morning And See: "how'd We Do? How Much?" It's Another Facet Of This Whole Culture Of Accumulation And Consumption. Black People Are Caught Up In It, White People Are Caught Up In It, White Actors, Black Actors, Female Actresses - Everybody's Caught Up In It.

Mother Earth Is In Pain And Ailing - Bglobal Warming. The World Is Dealing With Issues Of Immigration, Deindustrialization, And Poverty. When I Was Born, There Were 2.5 Billion People Living On The Whole Planet. Now There Are 2.5 Billion People Living On Less Than $2 A Day. That's The Kind Of Reality We Have To Deal With.