I do know that there are down-ballot people who have run on the Green Party, and some have been successful.
You have a lot of young people who still feel somewhat marginalized, even if they do vote for Hillary Clinton.
This was in 2004, and it told me that President [Barack] Obama intended to be very careful and noncontroversial in addressing race matters. I
In trying times, I like to remember that you have to keep walking because you can't see what is around the corner.
Tavis Smiley lost lots of corporate support after he was critical of President [Barack] Obama.
Do you really think I'm going to go on record telling you the craziest thing I've ever done. There's a reel in my brain, and I think I'll keep it there. No regrets, though.
North Carolina is a fascinating state, because you've got these urban areas. You've got the Piedmont Triangle - Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point.
When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.
Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.
I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member.
Of course, Mr. Hannity was outraged that any American would not cross her hand over her heart and repeat the hypocritical words, one nation. Whenever we come up on the Fourth of You Lie, I think of Frederick Douglas and his masterful oration, The meaning of the Fourth of July to the Negro. Pledge the flag? I think not!
Young African - millennials really love Barack Obama.
The president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.
Some of the federal programs to help homeowners were never fully implemented.
If the Muslim community in Michigan comes out strongly, I think they will make a difference.
While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.
I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.
Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.
I think that ranked-choice voting makes a lot of sense.
While people are prepared to talk about Social Security, about marriage equality, about any number of other issues, people are not prepared - your layperson is not prepared to have a conversation about foreign policy.
Bernie Sanders just seems to not have the personality to engage with people at the grassroots level.
I always want to read something about our people's enslavement near the 4th. To keep it light, I also read Rolanda Watts' "Destiny Lingers" She is a sisterfriend and I ran into her at Essence. Then, I finished Paul Taylor's "The Next America." Taylor is the Executive VP at the Pew Research Center, and he uses their excellent data base to talk about the coming "generational showdown" which we are experiencing, at some level, in Black America.
African-American people adore President Obama.
Sometimes, I repeat myself, and that was a second elimination [of Barack Obama]. I worked with a team, including a great editor who, as the project came together, suggested other additions and eliminations. It was a process.
The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.
Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.
He was in Poland to participate in the NATO conference, President [Barack] Obama did respond well to the back-to-back killings, as well as to the attacks on Dallas police officers that followed.
The President [Barack Obama] became quite emotional about transgender student rights, threatening to pull Department of Education funds from school districts that do not comply with federal regulations. Black children are suspended from school three times more than white children are, and there is no evidence that black children are three times as unruly.
Indeed, as soon as he took office, Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his top priority was to deny President [Barack] Obama a second term.
Don't believe the hype that black North Carolinians are not voting. We've heard this time and time again. It's just not the truth.
I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.
References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out.
As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of him when he ran for the Senate before that. I get excited as I ever did when I see that black man on Air Force One. But I won't settle for symbolism, and our President's record should be open for analysis.
If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.
I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.
People will be talking about the [Barack] Obama legacy for decades, and I wanted to include my voice in the analysis of this presidency.
The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.
I am not afraid of anything. I am voting for Hillary Clinton because I am excited and enthusiastic.
The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.
Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."
President [Barack] Obama did put together a task force on 21st Century Policing, led by Philadelphia police chief Charles Ramsey, to look at some of these issues after Ferguson.
When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.
There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.
Bernie Sanders has the momentum, and I think that that's something that we can't ignore.
History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.
Voting is not the most you can do; it's really the least you can do.
George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.
Interesting statistic: In every economic recovery until 1982, working people captured more than 80 percent of the value of the recovery. Since 1982, the top 10 percent has captured 90 percent of the value of the economic recovery.
We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.
Did Rahm Emmanuel serve President Barack] Obama or did he serve himself as he prepared to run for Mayor of Chicago? I don't use the term black-on-black violence, since I've never heard the term white-on-white violence.
Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.
President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against black people in Chicago is reflective of Mr. Emmanuel's values.
I do know that, you know, Donald Trump has a global portfolio, and many global investors are in Russia.
I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.
The voter problems and voter suppression, in some ways they're the same thing, but in some ways they're not, because the suppression is evil.
It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always write about President [Barack] Obama, so that was the easy elimination.
African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.
This is a column collection, or as one colleague called it, "history in real time," recounting my perspective on the highs and lows of this presidency from an African-American perspective. More than simply a column collection, the book has a substantial introduction that frames the [Barack] Obama presidency, explores the way Obama was treated by the political establishment and also how this first black president treated "his" people. In the epilogue, I use numbers to tell the story of African-American gains and losses during this presidency.
If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.
Cutting HBCUs was unconscionable. Implementing new regulations on Parent Plus loans, which cost HBCUs 28,000 students, was hostile. At the same time, it is important to note that, except for his first two years, which were a missed opportunity, President [Barack] Obama faced rabid opposition from the Republicans.
[Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill.
President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.
Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.
[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.
Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.
I especially appreciated hearing the President [Barack Obama] affirm that "black lives matter" and that it means that some citizens are feeling more pain, and experiencing more negative effects than others, and he offered up the stats. He also indicated that black lives matter does not negate the fact that blue lives matter. He ably walked the tightrope, here, between affirming both black life and police life.
I serve on the Institute of the Black World's National Commission on African-American Reparations, and we have asked the President [Barack Obama] to, by executive order, establish a commission to study reparations. He can do this without Congressional approval. While I am not optimistic, I do hope that President Obama considers this in these waning months of his Presidency.
If some of the recovery money had gone to cities instead of states, the urban population, read "Black" and "Brown," would be better off with recovery jobs.
Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.
I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.
One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.
People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system.
I like to think that life lessons are learned and re-learned every day and take on importance at different times in life.
[My childhood was ] spiritual than religious.
I think the takeaway from not holding President Obama accountable is, no matter how enthusiastic you are about Hillary Clinton, no matter how enthusiastic you are, the first thing that needs to happen is that people need to start planning how to hold her accountable.
We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.
