I Still Have That New Senator Smell.

The First Thing We Should Be Concerned About The Blm Movement Should Be The Issues That The Black Lives Matter Movement Is Bringing Forward. There's No Fundamental Platform Being Brought By Activists In Oakland, Baltimore, Or New Jersey. The Main Issues That You See, The Commonality Between Activists All Around The Country, Are Trying To Deal With The Challenges In The Criminal Justice System, Something That Is Very Much Central To My Work. So My Hope Is That People Stay Focused On The Urgency To Create Justice Here At Home.

Never Let Your Soul Be Silenced. Live Life Out Loud. Every Day Tell Your Truth Not With Words But With Actions From Your Heart.

You Need To Understand Something, You Drink Deeply From Wells Of Freedom And Liberty And Opportunity That You Did Not Dig. You Eat Lavishly From Banquet Tables Prepared For You By Your Ancestors. You Sit Under The Shade Of Trees That You Did Not Plant Or Cultivate Or Care For. You Have A Choice In Life, You Can Just Sit Back, Getting Fat, Dumb, And Happy, Consuming All The Blessings Put Before You, Or It Can Metabolize Inside Of You, Become Fuel To Get You Into The Fight, To Make This Democracy Real, To Make It True To Its Words That We Can Be A Nation Of Liberty And Justice For All.

Here, We Have A Country That Is Making Its Veterans, People Who Are Struggling With Post-traumatic Stress, People Who Are Struggling With Depression, Who Often They're Only Hope Is Their Access To Marijuana To Treat These Illnesses, And Here We Are Criminalizing Them For Doing What's Necessary To Stabilize Their Lives As A Result Of Their Service. This Is Not Who We Are As A Country. We Are Better Than This.

We Choose Forward. We Choose Inclusion. We Choose Growing Together. We Choose American Economic Might And Muscle, Standing Strong On The Bedrock Of The American Ideal: A Strong, Empowered And Ever-growing Middle Class.