Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
It's true hard work never killed anybody but I figure why take the chance?
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is...
There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze inefficient incomprehensible and inaccessible.