I am certain that my white colleagues, when faced with an emergency situation, wouldn't think twice about calling the police. This, however, may not be the case for their black and Latino students.
It turns out that the term 'diversity' can be anything from black faculty to military veterans. Well, I am both, but have yet to be subjected to discrimination because I'm a veteran.
It takes some courage to say you were wrong.
I went to college in the Air Force, and I went to college at the University of Maryland, who had college campuses on Air Force bases.
I did most of my Ph.D. in Washington. They used to bring black kids through the lab for tours, and I was one of the few black researchers.
If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.
Perhaps, for once, we should try interventions that are informed by science and proven to work.
I am committed to the people who are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars being used to fund unethical people and corporations.
All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting.
As a parent, a scientist, and educator, what I know is that it's always better to provide the education that will help keep my children - all people - safe, even if I don't want them to engage in the behavior.
If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them.
You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you've been told that doesn't have foundations in evidence.
You don't have money, you can't do science. But that's part of the price that I pay.
I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.
Drug reformers need to be hyper-vigilant. I understand that when you've been oppressed so long, so thirsty for truth, that when someone comes along and gives you a sip of water, you think that they're the savior. But in that water there may be cyanide.
If we were going to look at how pharmalogical drugs influence crime, we should probably look at alcohol.
All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we wouldn't have had subsidized housing. Most of my childhood, we had a two-bedroom apartment, but eventually we got into the projects, where we had four bedrooms. That was great.
Trump has been - has shown himself to be the most ignorant president that we've ever had. He has shown himself to be the one that disregards law more so than any other president we've had.
We need better public education and more realistic education.
Sleep is probably the most important biological function. If you don't get enough sleep, you can get psychiatric illnesses and all types of different illnesses.
