If You Want The Things People Don't

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.

The More You Limit Your Choices, Thereby Limiting Thought, The More You Can Simplify Your Life And Focus Your Energy Elsewhere.

I Hope And Understand That People Are Getting A Better Recognition That Food Stamps Is A Program That Really Helps America, Helps Families In Need. It's Not A Government Handout. If Anything, It's A Safety Net That Helps People Through Difficult Times And Bridges Them Towards Stability.

We Now Know From A Princeton Study That Superfund Sites Are Causing Higher Rates Of Birth Defects. We Now Know That There's No Excusing The Lack Of Moral Urgency To Do Something About This Environmental Crisis. We See Flint, Michigan, For Example, And The Attention It's Gotten, But What Most Americans Don't Seem To Realize Is That This Lead Problem Is Not Confined To Just Flint. There Are Over 3,000 Jurisdictions That Have Twice The Lead Levels In People's Blood Than Flint Does. We're Now Seeing More People Being Exposed To The Truth About Environmental Injustice In Our Country.

It Is Okay Not To Like Someone, But It Is Never Okay To Try And Degrade, Humiliate, Or Dehumanize Them.