Service Is What Life Is All About.

We Must Serve Consciously As Caring Role Models, Emphasizing The Ethic Of Service, Not Consumption.

You Have To Have A Fundamental Change In The Culture Of Policing, And Who Is The Police Person. How Do They Change? How Do You Learn From England And The Other Places, Or Australia? In England, They Don't Carry Guns On The Whole. It's A Different Kind Of Mentality That Does Not Demonize, And It's Justified On Race And Income And Class.

When I Started Out As An Activist, The Issues Were Much Clearer. There's Advantage To The New Media, But On The Other Hand, You Miss The Ability To Frame An Issue That You Had When There Were Just Three Tv Networks: Cbs, Nbc, And Abc. So The Whole World Could See The Same Police Dogs. The Same Bull Connor And His White Tank. Now You've Got Narrow-casting. The Media Is All Fragmented. It's So Hard To Get People To Focus In A Sustained Way.

In 1990, When We Started The Black Community Crusade For Children, We Were Always Talking About All Children, But We Paid Particular Attention To Children Who Were Not White, Who Were Poor, Who Were Disabled, And Who Were The Most Vulnerable.parents Didn't Think Their Children Would Live To Adulthood, And The Children Didn't Think They Were Going To Live To Adulthood. That's When We Started Our First Gun-violence Campaign. We've Lost 17 Times More Young Black People To Gun Violence Since 1968 Than We Lost In All The Lynching In Slavery.

The Literacy Level At Mississippi Prisons? Fifth Grade. Can't Read, What Are You Going To Do? If You've Got A Conviction Rap, What Are You Going To Do? It's A Real Crisis.