I Was A Child Of Privilege And

There Was A Sense Of Palpable Relief That George [w.] Bush Was Leaving And That The Republicans Had Slipped Back And That Was A Wonderful Feeling.

The [vietnam] War's Gone On For Three Years. And We'd Thought We'd Ended It Because We'd Done Exactly What We Were Told And What We Told Ourselves We'd Had To Do. We Had A Majority. We Were Against The War And This Created A Crisis For Democracy And A Crisis For The Antiwar Movement.

I Get Up Every Morning And Think, Today I'm Going To Make A Difference. Today I'm Going To End Capitalism. Today I'm Going To Make A Revolution. I Go To Bed Every Night Disappointed But I'm Back To Work Tomorrow, And That's The Only Way You Can Do It.

I Was From My Little Perch In A Prep School I Saw The Civil Rights Movement And It Was Defining The Moral Dimensions Of The Time And I Was Drawn To It And I Read James Baldwin And Read Invisible Man And These Were My Touch Points. But It Was When I Got To Michigan And Saw A Bigger World, A Real World, That I Got Involved.

I Think I Am A Radical. I Have Never Deviated From That. By Radical, I Mean Someone Trying To Go To The Root Of Things.