If the Muslim community in Michigan comes out strongly, I think they will make a difference.
We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.
Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.
Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.
