We have an amazing tolerance for black pain and for too long after our slave ships landed in New Orleans, you know, we tolerated in the name of God slavery for 246 years.
Jackson reflects on the historical context of racial suffering in America and its relevance to the current disaster response.
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As people watch her die daily, because of lack of available food and water, it is touching people in a very profound way.
You look on a jury without a black and without a man, certainly not a jury of Trayvon's peers, the Department of Justice must intervene and take this case to another level.
I would think most citizens of Gaffney would be against this, that it's morally wrong, but their silence must not speak louder than their action.
It is at least a factor. Today I saw 5,000 African Americans on the I-10 causeway desperate, perishing, dehydrated, babies dying. It looked like Africans in the hull of a slave ship.