Time For Change

Your zip code should not predict how long you live.

Where is the outrage from the people with so much privilege in our country? When do we push for real change? How many people have to die?!

We have the power in this room to use our voices to make a difference, to be better than those who came before us. You can change the world, but you have to want to. You have to understand that the world needs to be changed.

We have got to think of this privilege that we have in our country, in our neighborhoods, in our skin; we have to use it in a way that helps change the world.

I don’t know if your life is valued, if you understand what it is for us to walk around in this skin, to work everyday, to pay taxes and, to be so afraid that if something happened to you or someone you loved, that no one would even mourn.

There is no program you can create to fix what policy and law has broken. We have got to do more and it is you who must decide that you don’t want to live in a city where some people, because of their zip code, can live longer; where some people because of their skin color can feel safer.