the city and certainly surrounded areas, are in need of somebody who s willing to lawn wha launch what i call an inclusion revolution. i believe that a better future is possible for baltimore, and so i m looking forward to bringing everything that i got to make sure that we have a better future for this city and the region. dr. cummings, i wanted to ask you about this conversation that you had with the baltimore sun this week that you plan to have a preventive double mastectomy this week, a memo tus decision for you. can you talk about why you chose to go public with that decision and how serious this was for you? let me just first say that this was scheduled before running for office was ever a consideration, before elijah s health took a really bad turn for the worse. he went with me to the doctor s
communities around the country. that is why rape kits are sitting untested and unseen in baltimore as a part of the consent decree. because even if anybody who had a sexual assault complaint, they were finding that their complaints were being diverted or not even heard at all or not being taken seriously. so this is not just about people of color. this is about women. and this is what s exciting about today. the organizers of the march were actually intersectional. this is about all marginalized populations. it s about an inclusion revolution. making sure we re the voice of all the people. congresswoman this is the point. i think that you re seeing not just in the united states, really around the world, women suddenly i think coming to the realization of just how at risk your fundamental rights and just decency toward women, the idea that somebody who boasted about assaulting women and what he could grab on their body, which has sparked the reason you have those absolutely.
over the last few days i ve been going to nonstop meetings telephone calls coming from private foundations, corporations government officials wanting to make sure that we address the issues of education, job training criminal justice reform sentencing reform a health reform things that go to the bottom line of healing a community and allowing everybody to be a part of what we call the inclusion revolution. and so without a doubt we are at that moment but we ve got to take advantage of that moment chris. because if we don t it will pass by. and we ll be talking about these things five years from now only they will be worse. so, again, i know the mayor is working 24/7. i talked to her three or four times yesterday. i know she s meeting with various philanthropic organizations, our universities here in maryland and talking to governor hogan and the congress.
caused more people to get arrested. and i m proud of baltimore. and i also wanted them they know me. and i know them. and so i wanted them to i wanted to say to them look we hear you. and that s what it is. we got a lot of people who are in a lot of pain. and a lot of our children you showed a clip earlier from the empowerment temple where some 300, 400 ministers have joined. and i was there. but a young lady got up and she said something i will never forget. she says you see, i m in a school where i m reading from a book that was published in 1973. and basically what she was saying is it s my turn. i want to have an opportunity to be somebody. and so we in baltimore and across the nation by the way, need to look at our young people particularly young african-american folks. they just want a chance. they want i call it they want to be included. we need to have an inclusion revolution. it mattered that you were there last night. obviously you mean so much to