If We Cannot Provide Excellent Educational Opportunities

No Matter What, We Always Have The Power To Choose Hope Over Despair, Engagement Over Apathy, Kindness Over Indifference, Love Over Hate.

We Started America With The Sin Of Slavery That Led Right Into The Post-reconstruction Period Which Was The Greatest Period Of Domestic Terrorism In Our Country's History. Then After That, We Had Jim Crow Emerge And Just When The Jim Crow Laws Were Ending Came The Onslaught Of The Drug War. Well, The Drug War Has So Perniciously Effected, Insidiously Infected Communities Of Color That In Some Ways It Has Come Full Circle, And We Now Have More African Americans Under Criminal Supervision Than All Of The Slaves In 1865. This Is A Profoundly Unjust War.

If We Cannot Provide Excellent Educational Opportunities To All Children, Safe Communities, Quality Health Coverage, Or Robust And Fair Avenues Towards Wealth Creation, Then Our Nation Will Increasingly Be In Peril.

There Is A Tremendous Amount Of Corporate Villainy Going On In The Us, Where Corporations Are Doing Things That They Know Are Causing Harm, And They Wouldn't Do This Where Their Children Live Or Where Their Children Are Growing Up. Communities Often Don't Have The Tools Necessary To Fight Back Against Grievous Harms Being Caused Them. So To Give A Cause Of Action For Folks Who Can Demonstrate The Harm That's Being Caused, It's Critically Important That You Allow People To Have More Tools With Which To Defend Themselves And Defend Their Communities.

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.