I Fear Very Much For Our Kids,

One Of The Ongoing Crises In America Is Institutional Racism. We Have A Very Broken Criminal Justice System. We Live In A Country Where There Are More People In Jail Than Any Other Country On Earth. There Are Some 2.2 Million People Currently Incarcerated And They Are Disproportionally African American And Hispanic. Unarmed African Americans Have Been Abused And Sometimes Killed While In Police Custody. Clearly These Are Issues That Must Be Dealt With And Changed.

You Need A Democratic Party Which Is A Grassroots Party, Which Makes Decisions From The Bottom On Up, Not Just From The Top On Down.

When I Was A Young Boy, I Can Remember In The Community That I Grew Up In, Seeing People In The Community Who Had Numbers That Were On Their Arms.

I Think Too Many Of My Republican Friends Are Into Perpetual Warfare In The Middle East. And That Scares The Bejesus Out Of Me.

I'm A United States Senator, And I Have A Responsibility To The People Of My State - Also To The People Of This Country.