John Say's It's James Who Started First,

I Realized That Most White Americans Knew Very Little About Our History And Our Struggle, And Were Having Difficulty Understanding The Basis For Our Agitation And Our Resistance And Our Complaints. I Also Discovered That While Black Americans Had A Sense Of The Beauty And Tragedy Of The Journey From The Time Of Slavery Until Now, We Were Not Rooted In The Specifics. I Thought One Way To Familiarize People With That History Would Be Through The Voices Of The Great Folk Artists.

Our Foreign Policy Has Made A Wreck Of This Planet. I'm Always In Africa... And When I Go To These Places I See American Policy Written On The Walls Of Oppression Everywhere.

In The Gun Game, We Are The Most Hunted. The River Of Blood That Washes The Streets Of Our Nation Flows Mostly From The Bodies Of Our Black Children.

The Usa Has More People In Prison That Any Other Country, Including Countries With Much Larger Populations. 13% Of The Population Is Black But 80% Of The People In Prison Are Black, Mostly For Soft Crimes.

Through Electing Officials That Will Protect The Constitution And Commit Themselves To The Rights Of The People And The Health Of The Nation, We Will Be Able To Ensure That No Group Of Ideologues And No Private Sector Institution Can Coopt Our Rights, Take Us Into Senseless Wars And Steal The Nation From Its People.