Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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Defense contractors and military personnel are whispering into the ears of our Congresspeople and president every single day. If we want to create a sustainable world, then they better start hearing more from us.
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Our conversation around what it takes to wage peace should be as vital and sophisticated as a conversation around what it takes to wage war.
Sandy Fisher
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Financially, investment in education, infrastructure and economic opportunity yields a better return than investment in war.
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Don’t tell me you’re ending a “forever war” on one hand, and on the other hand keep adding to the “forever war machine.” @POTUS
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The fact that we’re the world’s largest arms exporter is not something Americans should feel proud of. We can transition from war economy to peace economy, no differently then we can transition from dirty economy to clean economy; there’s even money to be made investing in peace.
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8/ It’s the task of our generation to pull it out by the roots from the psyche of this nation. Much of the work is external but much of it is internal too. We need a deeper healing than policy changes alone can provide. With sincerity, willingness and God’s help we can achieve it
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7/ Anyone who has looked at those videos of black men being dragged out of their cars by vicious police and doesn’t see the throwback to slavery doesn’t know too much about slavery. We’re in a moment of moral emergency. It’s the task of our generation to not just address racism.
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6/ ... give credit to our ancestors both black and white who have tried to close that gap, and take full responsibility for the ways in which we’ve not only allowed the gap to continue but have even in many ways widened it in our time.
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5/ The issue is to not just acknowledge the inequity, the systemic racism that causes such a gap in opportunity between blacks and whites. The issue is to also acknowledge where the gap came from...
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4/ Real reparations, an integrative holistic 21st-century approach, means full acknowledgment of an evil that occurred, a damage that was done to one people by another and the willingness of the former to compensate for that damage.
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3/A politics that only treats symptoms is like allopathic medicine; it eradicates a symptom but the symptom in time can morph into another one. So psychological and emotional elements are equal in importance to the financial measures required for genuine reparation. Both matter.
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2/ Race-based policies are important but of themselves they treat symptom & not cause. This can’t just be about financial restitution; it also has to be about healing the spiritual malfunction that led to the problem (slavery) and continues to re-create it (police brutality etc).
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1/ Since reparations is back in the news and the House is taking it forward, I want to get some thoughts in that I think are foundational. Let’s begin with the difference between race-based policies and reparations. google.com/amp/s/thehill.com…
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Good for her. If I were a black woman I would consider it my duty to my ancestors to tear down the confederate flag. @BreeNewsome
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We might be ending Americas “forever war” (sort of), but we’re nowhere close to ending America’s forever war machine. newsweek.com/why-america-can…
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