I Think The Nation As A Whole

My Three P's Would Be Pray, Pray First. Second, Prepare, And Then Persist.

As A Kid Who Failed Out Of High School As A Freshman, I Know Firsthand And Personally That Sense Of Hopelessness And Just Being - Drifting In The Wrong Direction, Having Really No Hope. And Being Able To Harness That Frustration Was Incredibly Valuable In My Life. That's One Of The Reasons I Focus So Consistently On The Foundation Of Education, Because It Helps To Eviscerate Those Things That - Unemployment, High Jobless Rates, Poverty.

What We`re Seeing In So Many Of The Counterprotests. We`re Seeing America Rise In A Way That It Did Not In The `60s, Which I Think Is Powerful And Symbolic To The Rest Of The World, That We Reject The Darkness And We Embrace The Light.

The Fact Of The Matter Is That Hope Comes From Many Sources. I Think Depending On The Federal Government To Be Some Sort Of A Savior Is False Hope.

We Are In A Very Critical And Sensitive Time In This Nation. We Need Our President To Sit Down With Folks Who Have A Personal Experience, A Deep Connection To The Horror And The Pain Of This Country`s Provocative Racial History. If The President Wants To Have A Better Understanding And Appreciation For What He Should Do Next, He Needs To Hear Something From Folks Who Have Gone Through This Painful History. Without That Personal Connection To The Painful Past, It Will Be Hard For Him To Regain That Moral Authority From My Perspective.