Ernest Cooper
Atlanta
“My ideas are I’m making an attempt to determine the place we at the moment are. I don’t assume we’ve superior. I feel we’ve gone again many years. How far again? I’m unsure. It’s nonetheless making an attempt to determine that out…In case you have a look at the credentials, what we had versus what we’ve, and what we’re coping with now, there’s no comparability. It exhibits that there’s a necessity for variety as a result of all he’s doing is hiring his unqualified buddies, his unqualified individuals who have some huge cash and are doing precisely what they wish to do. And it’s not the need of the individuals however the will of the wealthy. It’s the need of the oligarchs. It’s the need of the haves. So no, I don’t assume we’re higher off. I feel we’re a lot worse off since he’s taking workplace. I simply haven’t found out the place we’re or how far again we’ve been.”
Angie O’Neal
Atlanta
“Actually, I feel we began progressing in that route. I noticed many issues occur that I by no means thought I might see in my lifetime. By means of equality, individuals may even adapt new concepts into their mindset. , letting go of years of ideas of oppression being okay, realizing that a lot of what was occurring on the earth immediately has been mistaken, and it’s been mistaken for a very long time. And many of us that don’t appear like me have been part of that motion. And I noticed that. However sadly, I feel it’s starting to unravel. And on this time interval, I don’t know what it is going to take to regain that momentum. However sadly, yeah, we’re taking some steps backward and even in one other route the place we’ve veered off to the fitting and a spot the place, you recognize, we’ve ever been. However yeah, these are my ideas.”
Alton Chinshue
Sharpsburg
“I feel there’s been some roadblocks within the lengthy path to civil rights on this nation. I feel the hassle to maneuver the attention has been changed by one thing else. Individuals who at one time could be banished from society, comparable to rapists and pedophiles, and stuff like that, at the moment are being celebrated. So, I feel that’s an enormous roadblock for us. And I feel the sixtieth anniversary developing goes to point out some individuals what we’ve.”
Tiffany Latrice
Atlanta
“So about ten years in the past, Barack Obama mentioned, we’re making progress. However ten years later, can we are saying that that’s nonetheless true? And the reply is hell no, particularly with this administration. I actually really feel like we’re in an apocalypse. With FDA rules being pulled again. Our meals is unhealthy. The Senate simply handed a invoice that’s really going to de-regulate our water. So, our water can include contamination, particularly for our children. The Division of Training is just about being erased. So many issues are being undone with all of the progress we’ve made during the last 100 years to advance individuals of shade and simply individuals generally. And now I really feel just like the administration is actually targeted on erasure, and I feel it’s actually going to actually break aside the neighborhood. However I hope we will spark our personal creativity, construct different fashions for the neighborhood, and convey us collectively. In order that’s my response. However no! It’s time to go away America.”
Rashad Asante
Atlanta
“Proper now, if I get pulled over by a police officer, a white police officer, do I really feel secure, or do I really feel unsafe? I feel most black individuals, to at the present time, in the event that they get pulled over by a police officer, really feel threatened. But when it was for a white particular person, at any time when they get pulled over, they don’t really feel any worry, and it simply looks like a servant asking them questions, they usually’re more than pleased to ask the police officer, hey, why did you name me over? However whereas with us, we’re even afraid to ask the police officer why they’re pulling us over. One other factor is for those who have a look at Trump, his background, and the authorized points earlier than he lately simply obtained elected. If that was a black man, would he have been in a position to run for workplace? I feel he in all probability would have been disqualified. However Trump used his white privilege to nonetheless be capable of undergo all these challenges and nonetheless be elected and run for the presidency. There was a speech that I watched with Louis Farrakhan 15 years in the past saying that we, as black of us, are nonetheless begging the white man to hearken to us. And I feel to at the present time, we’re nonetheless ready and asking the white man to implement insurance policies and to have a look at issues in black communities and to assist us out. Why can’t we do it ourselves? So what has modified? We’re nonetheless begging. That’s all I’ve.”
