I Was Born In A Slum, But

His Foreparents Came To America In Immigrant Ships. My Foreparents Came To America In Slave Ships. But Whatever The Original Ships, We Are Both In The Same Boat Tonight.

If You Don't Feel Apologetic For Slavery, If You Don't Feel Apologetic For Colonialism, If You Feel Proud Of It Then Say That.

We Blacks Were The First People Embracing Obama, Long Before The People At Expensive Fundraisers Were Supporting Him. We Gave Him His First Love, 96 Percent Of Blacks Voted For Him In 2008. Yet Today We Are The Number One In Unemployment, With 16 Percent Of American Blacks Out Of Work.

What's Good For The Very Rich Might Not Be Good For Anybody But Them.

The Fact Is In A City Like Chicago, For Example, Unemployment In The Black Community Is Around 20 Percent For Adults, 35 Percent For Youth, They Bail Out The Banks, Public Schools, There Is A Deep Divide. We Need A Plan For Reconstruction And Redevelopment And I Hope That - Police Are The Gatekeepers But Behind That Gate Are These Problems Of Disparities And Injustice.