If you are funding researchers to look primarily for pathology, not surprisingly, that is what they are going to find and report on.
I have a hard time arguing with stupid people.
The strange proposition that black intellectuals - regardless of their training - are 'race experts' mainly because they are black is naive and potentially dangerous.
I strongly discourage any intellectuals, regardless of race, from speaking on matters for which they have limited or no expertise.
Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and, in overwhelmingly great proportions, by black people.
The listening community has the obligation of distinguishing informed opinion from tweets.
I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.
One of the things we know about people is that people are not very courageous in general.
The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate.
In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate.
My kids are really into social justice.
Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.
Politicians move when the public requires them to move.
Number one in high school, when I was sort of entrenched in the street life, if you will, the major thing that kept me plugged in the mainstream was athletics. I played basketball throughout high school. I also played football, but I played basketball throughout high school.
I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.
