I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.
I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.
I think that [Barack] Obama was elected because young people are starting to get interested in their country and I think that's a very healthy thing.
