“For once, all the people who’ve been begging, and I mean, literally begging for you to feel how hard any given day is - now you know. How did it feel to be helpless? If you could remember what it was like to be helpless and face a force so powerful, it could erase half the planet... you would know that you’re about to have the exact same impact. This isn’t about easy decisions, senator.
I’m a black man carrying the stars and stripes. What don’t I understand? Every time I pick this thing up, I know there are millions of people who are gonna hate me for it. Even now, here, I feel it - the stares, the judgement. And there’s nothing I can do to change it. Yet, I’m still here - no super-serum, no blonde hair or blue eyes. The only power I have is that I believe we can do better. We can’t demand that people step up and we don’t meet them halfway! You control the banks! Shit, you can move borders! You can knock down a forest with an e-mail, you can feed a million people with a phone call. But the question is, who is in the room with you when you’re makin’ those decisions? Is it the people you are gonna impact, or is it just more people like you?”
