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." — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
This is a column collection, or as one colleague called it, "history in real time," recounting my perspective on the highs and lows of this presidency from an African-American perspective. More than simply a column collection, the book has a… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
I do know that there are down-ballot people who have run on the Green Party, and some have been successful. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of him when… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of anything. I am voting for Hillary Clinton because I am excited and enthusiastic. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
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… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share
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