you women readers might be saying One dear friend is Mark, who is from a Puerto Rican family that settled in New York. He s been clean and sober nine years now. He has chronic depression and struggles sometimes with balancing his prescribed medications. Therefore, their insistence on directly challenging the policies that undermine the lives and human rights of black people allows their critics to not focus on the message but the dreadlocks, the sagging pants, and the tattoos of some of the activists and .