Nobody Thinks That Obamacare Is Perfect. It

When I Was 15 Years Old In The Tenth Grade, I Heard Martin Luther King, Jr. Three Years Later, When I Was 18, I Met Dr. King And We Became Friends. Two Years After That I Became Very Involved In The Civil Rights Movement. I Was In College At The Time. As I Got More And More Involved, I Saw Politics As A Means Of Bringing About Change

Maybe, Just Maybe, There Should Be A Graphic Novel Dealing With The Contribution Of The Women Of The Civil Rights Movement, To Tell Their Story. The Pain, The Hurt. They Raised Their Children. Some Were Working As Maids, But When They Left Those Kitchens, Those Homes, They Made It To The Mass Meetings. And They Put Their Bodies On The Lines, Also.

My Parents Told Me In The Very Beginning As A Young Child When I Raised The Question About Segregation And Racial Discrimination, They Told Me Not To Get In The Way, Not To Get In Trouble, Not To Make Any Noise.

First Time I Got Arrested, I Knew Somehow And Some Way, We Would Succeed. To Go On The Freedom Ride To Be Beaten And Left Bloody And Unconscious, To Be Beaten On That Bridge In Selma, Have A Concussion - I Thought That I Was Going To Die On That Bridge. But Somehow And Some Way, I Lived To Tell About What Happened, And I've Seen Some Of The Fruits Of The Labor Of So Many People, And People Must Understand That.

What Sensible People Have Got To Do Is Not Simply Repeal The Affordable Care Act Without Any Alternative, But You've Got To Sit Down And Say It's Ok, What Are The Problems. How Do We Address It? How Do We Move To Universal Health Care? How Do We Lower Prescription Drug Costs? How Do We Make Sure That People Don't Have Outrageous Deductibles? You Just Don't Throw 20 Million People Off Of Health Insurance. You Don't Privatize Medicare.