Senator Booker starts at 35 seconds
This is a truly extraordinary speech. I’ve never heard anything remotely like it from a politician. It’s long, but it’s well worth it. It captures, like nothing else I’ve heard, the experience of growing up black in America.
—John Naughton*
Lawrence Hamm – a Newark, New Jersey, elder and longtime activist now challenging Cory Booker for a seat in the United States Senate (!?) – led the singularly nonviolent protest in Newark last week and said this to the New York Times:
People have a right to be outraged. … I would even say that it is unhealthy for people to repress their strong emotions.*
*a link – see a note on notes and links