Baraka: ‘It’s not ok to be a Coward’
By: Fred Snowflack | Published: 2025-06-02 03:05:00 | Source: www.insidernj.com
PLAINFIELD – Ras Baraka was simmering with passion Saturday afternoon when he cited today’s political climate and talked about fear.
“It’s OK to be afraid, it’s not OK to be a coward,” he said.
Continuing, he said:
“The problem with fear is that it makes you make safe decisions, not right decisions.”
There was more.
We are in a moral crisis, he said earlier in his address, and it’s time to take a stand. Reaching back six decades, Baraka said:
“You either ran with those kids at North Carolina A&T to sit at those lunch counters … to bring down Jim Crow, or you stayed in your dormitory.”
This was both a campaign speech and a rousing call to action. Baraka likes to combine the two.
With the primary about 10 days away, the Newark mayor and gubernatorial candidate seemed a bit more animated…
