The American birthright belongs, potentially, to everyone. This is unprecedented. Other countries accept migrants on the basis of economic necessity or as a humanitarian gesture. Only in America is it the direct consequence of our foundational ideals.
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.
Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.
Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
Where are Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton? They don't speak for Black America, and they don't speak for me.
The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.
What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things.
Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.
I wanted to make a movie about a black family in Middle America. I wanted to make a film where everyone can look at them and say, 'This is my family.'
We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
In America... it's not divided, but with Trump now, it's like you are asking for trouble. We wouldn't dare to say any of the things he is saying in our country and get away with it. It's just... blasphemy.
Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.
Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war against America.
Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.
Progressive bloggers should not only write on behalf of the members of America's underclass but also empower them to join the discussion.
America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
Something is very wrong when our federal and state governments have a high tolerance for the unrestricted distribution of weapons of mass destruction, and it would be wrong to let this deadly form of neglect continue to facilitate bloodshed across America.
Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.
