On the recordOctober 23, 2017
It says: ``We mentioned that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of the targets of the very surveillance that eventually led to the formation of the first Church Committee. This Black History Month, we should remember the many African-American activists who were targeted by intelligence agencies. Their stories serve as cautionary tales for the expanding surveillance state.'' Where are the conservatives to stand up against this document? We can be safe, we can have the First Amendment, and we speak our different issues, but now we are going to entrap African Americans--young men who are kneeling because of their concern for police reform and violence that has taken the lives of African-American young men. There are so many law enforcement officers who agree with me on the idea of police reform to help all of us work together. We are not divided, but we will stay divided with a document that is going to label us. Where is the document for the alt-right, the religious right, the White supremacists? Where is that? When are we going to understand that the calling of names--in our community, we call it calling me out of my name--by the majority community is a carryover from slavery and Jim Crow. I am saddened by the last couple of days of steering away from the mourning of those wonderful heroes who reflected the greatness of America. They reflected what young men and women do who are willing to sacrifice their lives.…
