Yes, black people have many behaviors that are a direct or indirect result of discrimination and socio-economic factors. But that doesn’t exonerate us from any responsibility for our own behavior, and to ridicule the idea that we should try to be better people is to keep our situation stagnant.

I don't love my country any less today than I did yesterday, but I am not any prouder of it either. We seek justice under a man-made system and hope to find truth in the hands of men and women. But truth and justice cannot be found there. Vengeance is not always manifested in the courts.