Democracy Is About Criticism.

Democracy Is About Criticism. I Didn't Elect Obama Because He's A Black; I Voted For Obama Because He Was The Right Person At The Time. Period. The Exceptionalism Of A Black U.s. President Is Not Important To Me. It's What He Does. And Who He Has At The Table. And What He Does To Change The World - That's What's Important.

But I Think It's Very Key That There's A Plan For Haiti. And We Have To Begin To - As Progressives And People Who Are Concerned About Haiti And Have Been Concerned About Haiti, We Have To Begin To Build Some Sort Of Consensus, A Movement Around The Haiti That The Haitians Envision.

The Civil Rights Movement Didn't Deal With The Issue Of Political Disenfranchisement In The Northern Cities. It Didn't Deal With The Issues That Were Happening In Places Like Detroit, Where There Was A Deep Process Of Deindustrialization Going On.

Freedom Summer, The Massive Voter Education Project In Mississippi, Was 1964. I Graduated From High School In 1965. So Becoming Active Was Almost A Rite Of Passage.

Just Look At The Cinema Itself: It's Comprised Of Lots Of Movies About Graphic Novels, And If You're Not 20 Years Old And Wearing A Cape And A Mask And White, You're Out Of Business. Today's Cinema Is A Proliferation Of Comedies, Which Are In Some Ways Creating Caricature Images. They're One-dimensional.