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I Worry About The Kids Who Have Too Much. As A Parent Living In A So-called Good Neighborhood With Children Who Went To Private High School, I Found Myself Spending Much Time In Parent Groups Worrying About Alcohol, Unsupervised Parties, And Parents Not Being Parents.

You Just Need To Be A Flea Against Injustice. Enough Committed Fleas Biting Strategically Can Make Even The Biggest Dog Uncomfortable And Transform Even The Biggest Nation.

You Can't Tell Parents To Teach Children The Value Of Work When We Don't Have Jobs And The Jobs We Have Don't Pay A Decent Wage. You Can't Tell Children To Achieve And Then Let Them Go To Broken-down Schools With Teachers Who Don't Care. We Need A Consistency Of Values In Our Public, Corporate, And Private Lives.

It Was Very Clear To Me In 1965, In Mississippi, That, As A Lawyer, I Could Get People Into Schools, Desegregate The Schools, But If They Were Kicked Off The Plantations - And If They Didn't Have Food, Didn't Have Jobs, Didn't Have Health Care, Didn't Have The Means To Exercise Those Civil Rights, We Were Not Going To Have Success.

The Core Of The Culture Is Racism And How Black Men Are Viewed. They've Always Been Demonized And Seen As Threats In Our Culture. Another Holdover From Slavery. We've Got To Deal With That Core Root Of Racism And Demonization Of The Upbringing Of Black Men. Black Women Are Not Exempt By Any Means.