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No Matter What, We Always Have The Power To Choose Hope Over Despair, Engagement Over Apathy, Kindness Over Indifference, Enthusiasm Over Lethargy, Love Over Hate. This Is Our True Freedom. Whatever Life May Throw At Us, We Have The Freedom And Ability To Choose Our Attitude. And I Believe It Is In Those Moments Of Choice That We Manifest Our Destiny.

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.

We Started America With The Sin Of Slavery That Led Right Into The Post-reconstruction Period Which Was The Greatest Period Of Domestic Terrorism In Our Country's History. Then After That, We Had Jim Crow Emerge And Just When The Jim Crow Laws Were Ending Came The Onslaught Of The Drug War. Well, The Drug War Has So Perniciously Effected, Insidiously Infected Communities Of Color That In Some Ways It Has Come Full Circle, And We Now Have More African Americans Under Criminal Supervision Than All Of The Slaves In 1865. This Is A Profoundly Unjust War.

I Visited The Ethiopian National Project Which Was Created By The Government To Fully Integrate Ethiopian Jews Into Israel's Society. They're Still Facing A Lot Of Challenges With Poverty, Unemployment But The Ethiopian National Project Is Really Doing An Extraordinary Job In Empowering The Ethiopian Community To Be Successful.

People Who Think I'm Gay, Some Part Of Me Thinks It's Wonderful. Because I Want To Challenge People On Their Homophobia. I Love Seeing On Twitter When Someone Says I'm Gay, And I Say, 'so What Does It Matter If I Am? So Be It. I Hope You Are Not Voting For Me Because You Are Making The Presumption That I'm Straight.'