I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously.
People are not as imaginative as they think they are.
Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is.
I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am.
I am running to be the 50th mayor of Baltimore in order to usher our city into an era where the government is accountable to its people and is aggressively innovative in how it identifies and solves its problems.
So many of us don't know what we want; we just know we don't want what we have. We spend 99% of the time talking about how bad it is, but only 1% of the time talking about how we can do something about it.
I am excited to return to city schools... and to continue doing the work to ensure that every child in Baltimore City receives a world-class education.
I've never been a surrogate for Bernie, Hillary, or the DNC.
I have a big following on Twitter, and Twitter has been invaluable for mobilizing and quickly sharing information. But I'm not really sure that people are learning deep content on Twitter.
Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal.
We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time.
As a gay black man, it's important to me to show up - that I'm able to show up as my whole self, in every space that I'm in, because that's how I'm able to be the most true to who I am.
Twitter is half me trying to live in the world and half me processing and sharing the world. I share a lot, and some of that is to keep me honest.
There are very few things that I don't talk about - even my relationships.
I'm not ashamed to be gay.
Expressing and loving myself is often so much more complex than 'out' affords me.
It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists.
Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths.
There is nothing romantic about teargas. Or smoke bombs or rubber bullets or sound cannons.
I'm not convinced that stealing an iPhone is a felony or stealing a bike is a felony.
