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Donald Trump is a bigot.
I'm yelling in my mind as I write a tweet.
Never have I once identified myself as white.
I see my role as sort of an informed outsider.
Generosity is giving until it makes you uncomfortable.
How far can you go in life if you don't love yourself?
I've always been a writer and have always loved writing.
It's hard to understand a moment in history when you are in it.
No man represents toxic white masculinity more than Donald Trump.
Politicians can and should be held accountable for their choices.
Before I was a journalist, I was a preacher in Georgia and Kentucky.
I would never crawl into a secret space to avoid the frustrating things.
It takes guts in this country to refuse to be a Democrat or a Republican.
Electing radical reformers as district attorneys is huge. It's essential.
Here's what I know for sure: every single vote counts. That's not just a saying.
The justice systems in San Diego, Alameda, and Sacramento counties are horrible.
I fight against racism and bigotry because I care about the people who are experiencing it.
To defeat Donald Trump, the Democrats must run a stellar cast of all-stars in their primary.
I know what it's like to be threatened. I know what it's like to be humiliated and targeted.
It was my long-held belief that police brutality would increase under the Trump administration.
When you're trying to bust through the noise on social media, you do have to be overt and loud.
While I am furious about injustice, I do what I do, fighting against it, out of a place of love.
A tweet is fast. But everything about policy change is very slow. And a lot of us are impatient.
'Go vote' is a not a political strategy. It's hardly a slogan. Hell, it's not even a good tweet.
For my entire life, I have held the cards of my complicated family history very close to my chest.
People with momentum can get so much done. Momentum is easy to lose and almost impossible to fake.
I grossly underestimated the gravitational pull of America's justice system toward white supremacy.
By the time I reached middle school, I fully identified myself not even as biracial but just as black.
I became personal friends with Erica Garner and with so many other families affected by police violence.
Injustice has exhausted people but also pushed them to organize and fight back in very sophisticated ways.
Very few police officers are ever held accountable for even the most egregious shootings and acts of violence.
I refuse to allow the excuses in my mind to grow into giants that keep me from living up to my full potential.
Young people, throughout history, have always been the lifeblood of every movement for civil and human rights.
I was raised by a great single mother. I grew up in rural Kentucky, and she's just a really compassionate woman.
The United States has so many laws, into the millions, that experts have lost track of just how many laws we have.
When people meet me or hear me in person, they quickly learn that I am much more than a tweet and a profile picture.
In the United States, we've put our elections on Tuesday. That's dumb. In modern life, it makes absolutely no sense.
Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.
It doesn't matter if I've been wronged - I still have a responsibility to use my influence in a way that never causes harm.
Few cities have more skilled, experienced organizers and activists and grassroots organizations than St. Louis and Philadelphia.
Every day I walk down the street or hop on the subway, I am reminded that I am a citizen of a very big, incredibly diverse world.
Having come so close to death, I now value just how precious life truly is and want to ride what God gave me until the wheels fall off.
I've had some unbelievable successes, and I've also learned painful lessons through failures so low I can hardly stand to think of them.
'Black Panther' had a whole cast of beautiful black brilliance. Black scientists. Black presidents. The style. The technology. The color.
LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME to find out. NOW. RIGHT NOW.
I love social media, and it is an important part of how we make change happen. But we can't retweet ourselves out of our most serious problems.
It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.
America was not built on kindness or the Christianity of Christ. It was not built on freedom or liberty. This nation was built on white supremacy.
I think, when people think of NFL athletes, they forget that they are citizens of this country, that they are bothered by the problems that we all face.
We loathe mass incarceration. We loathe police brutality. But most of us have absolutely no idea how to address the critical flaws in our justice system.