By giving people a clear vision of what can be. People want to be able to be helpful, but they don’t have a clear vision of how to be helpful. People… - Angela Glover Blackwell

People need to understand the importance of race. The racial issues predate the founding of the nation. Slavery predates the founding of the nation. We need to understand it has been a scar on the nation whether you are black or white or Latino. The refusal of this nation to come to grips with the role of race in policy making, in economic strategy, is holding this nation back and will take it down. You can’t think about going into the world of policy without understanding that legacy and the impacts of that legacy and how it impacts everybody and everything. Until you have the education, you will not be effective.

My social change aspirations mirror that. I want that for myself and I want that for everybody. I think we need to create a world in which that can happen. One that is peaceful. One that values all human life where there is no hierarchy of human value. All human life is scared. Black lives matter. All lives matter. But all lives will never matter until black lives matter. I want to have a society in which people get that and our institutions are aligned with our aspirations.

My personal aspirations are no different than anyone else’s, we want our families to be healthy and happy and fulfilling. We want our neighborhoods to be neighbourly and have a sense of community. We want to live in peace. Those are my personal aspirations.