Bread Breakers
Interviews
"I'm open minded. My mother said 'Just love everything. Exprience everything. Be open minded.'"
"I did not care in anyway about politics before I started thinking about where the world is headed and what it's gonna look like when my kids get older."
"I think, like, being around some racist people in college, and wanting to speak up about it kinda shaped my politics, and made me realize there's a lot to be done."
"Well, I had a really crappy childhood, so, I guess, taking my experiences from my childhood, I see the world differently."
"When I used to live in Virginia, there was a lot of homeless people where I used to live, so seeing that kinda shaped my politics."
"Political willpower sometimes isn't enough to trump some of those more urgent moments of inequality."
"An experience that shaped my politics would be growing up in Britain with parents with socialist ideas."
"My parents were one Republican, one Democrat. They argued at the dinner table all the time."
"I came from an all white area, and going there [UMBC] just opened my mind to other diversity which I had never encountered, which was very challenging but also very enlightening."
"What shaped my politics was the Black Panther Trial that went on here in New Haven in 1969,"
"Basically, what I got out of that experience was that racial harmony is a really important thing that can affect anyone."
"How do I encourage conversation across the divide, having been on both sides of it?"
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