Using an excerpt from Dr Martin Luther King, Jr’s “Letter from A Birmingham Jail,” 1963

“How does one determine when a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority. To use the words of Martin Buber, the great Jewish philosopher, segregation substitutes an "I - it" relationship for the "I - thou" relationship and ends up relegating persons to the status of things. So segregation is not only politically, economically, and sociologically unsound, but it is morally wrong and sinful.”

These powerful words still resonate today, and that is why Jamie believes we need to work on issues of:

-Gentrification 

-Profiling

-Healthcare

-Redlining

-Supports legislation to eliminate racial and economic bias

-Supports legislation to eliminate race-based discrimination in policing, courts, and incarceration.  

-Supports legislation to eliminate race-based bias in education and our schools.