I think the tear-gassing and the ways in which
— the rubber bullets, of which I experienced
in Minneapolis, and I know much about it because
many of my friends and colleagues in this
work experienced the same on the streets of
Ferguson, where Mike Brown was shot and killed
and left there for four hours laying on the
ground
for the entire community 
to see and to be traumatized by.
I know that America has always been militarized
in terms of its police force.
And we’ve been saying that.
In fact, there is a campaign called “end
the police militarization,” that folks have
been pushing to get done in Congress.
And so, we’ve been sounding the alarm about
all of these things.
This is not new.
As it relates to what we see happening with
the administration, the president of the United
States ran on being a law-and-order president.
He said it.
He said it.
And that was a part of his platform.
So we knew what he would do when he had the
opportunity to show that he is in fact a law-and-order
president.
He is also an extremely disrespectful — and
his rhetoric is racist.
His rhetoric is dangerous.
And, in fact, because of his actions, people
are on the streets even more angry.
I believe that this president has incited
most of what we see happening today.
He does not know how, nor does he care, to
bring people together.
Instead, he wants to send the military to
the streets, because I don’t even think
he knows how to actually work on relationships
between humans and bring people together,
and especially not as it relates to race relations.
I am happy to see that those individuals,
one who actually — he actually bought into
office — that they would be courageous enough
to speak out, because wrong is wrong.
And if you are a person of good moral standards,
you should speak truth to power.
And so, that is what we have seen happen,
and I am very, very grateful to those people
who have done that.
I wish they had done it earlier, when they
heard — because, as Maya Angelou said, when
someone shows you who they are, believe them.
And now we know that we can actually believe
who Donald Trump said he was.
And now November is coming, and I hope people
are getting themselves prepared to do
what’s necessary to take back our country.
