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While people are prepared to talk about Social Security, about marriage equality, about any number of other issues, people are not prepared - your layperson is not prepared to have a conversation about foreign policy.

Julianne Malveaux

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Julianne Malveaux
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 22
Economist
Journalist
Radio Personality
San Francisco County
California
Julianne Marie Malveaux
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Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.
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[Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill.
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African-American people adore President Obama.
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[My childhood was ] spiritual than religious.
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I think that ranked-choice voting makes a lot of sense.
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I do know that there are down-ballot people who have run on the Green Party, and some have been successful.
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I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.
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Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward.
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One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.
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If some of the recovery money had gone to cities instead of states, the urban population, read Black and Brown, would be better off with recovery jobs.
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Bernie Sanders just seems to not have the personality to engage with people at the grassroots level.
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I think the takeaway from not holding President Obama accountable is, no matter how enthusiastic you are about Hillary Clinton, no matter how enthusiastic you are, the first thing that needs to happen is that people need to start planning how to hold her accountable.
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Bernie Sanders has the momentum, and I think that that's something that we can't ignore.
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[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.
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The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.
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African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.
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Interesting statistic: In every economic recovery until 1982, working people captured more than 80 percent of the value of the recovery. Since 1982, the top 10 percent has captured 90 percent of the value of the economic recovery.
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Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.
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George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.
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History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.
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