Shaka Senghor
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But fuck, the fact that that can happen.
education facilities to keep people out of prison yeah so but also how do we have these same communities decade after decade after decade that are deeply impoverished and filled with crime yeah and no no no course correction nothing being done on a on a federal level to try to correct that uh it's it's just and i think there's a problem in this country i mean it's a
It's a good problem in some ways that you have to get reelected if you want to be president.
You have four-year terms.
But because of that, they just think about getting elected.
And then once they're in, then they think about getting reelected.
And the last thing you want to do is do anything controversial that might take 15, 20 years in order to reap the rewards of it.
If you're trying to say, hey, we've got to do something.
I know we're investing...
So much money overseas.
We invest so much money into these nonprofits overseas and all these different things.
We're doing regime change and untold billions of dollars.
We've got to invest in these cities and try to make less prisoners, less people incarcerated, less people that start off in a terrible position.
But that's like an unpopular thing to try to run on, man.
Because the people that are just trying to protect their money, you know, there's so many people in this country that think about people in prison, they don't even think of them as prisoners.
They want them in prison because then they're not out in the street inconveniencing their life.
They don't want to deal with like, why?