I really believe that AIDS is what it is today
because the first years of the epidemic, the
federal government looked at it as a gay problem,
without realizing that it was everyone's problem.
We have always known -- always known -- that
the face of the dominant user population is
what drives policy, not the pharmacology of
the drug.
While someone with AIDS dies every seven minutes,
you have spent countless dollars and untold
time preparing reports.
By all accounts intelligent, forceful landmark
reports, that have been virtually ignored
by a callous, mean-spirited White House led
by a president who promulgates public health
policies mired in politics.
We didn't need reports to tell us that our
loved ones were dying.
We didn't need a report to tell us that homeless
shelters weren't able to save lives.
Must we really hear again, of rampant AIDS
discrimination in housing, in employment,
in public accommodation?
Must we really?
We didn't need a report to tell us that we need methadone and buprenorphone in county jails and prisons.
We didn't need a report to tell us that people
of black and Latin descent were dying at similar
rates as white people.
Of prisoners with AIDS left to die.
Of drug users whom we blindly advise to stop
shooting drugs but to whom we decline
to offer drug treatment.
We didn't need the report.
What we needed was leadership. 
What we don't have is leadership.
And we still don't have it.
The choice is yours.
You can demand that he provide leadership,
or we can wait.
We can do more factfinding, establish more
task forces, issue more reports and pretend
that we care.
Send that message, Magic.
We are 1000 points of light and we are being
extinguished one by one.
Do you have the courage to lead?
Do you have the courage to tell the people
that consistently tell us what justice should
look like to set those fears, that propaganda,
aside?
And realize that the people they are trying
to protect are not the people most harmed?
That we should dictate what justice looks
like.
[chanting] I believe that we will win!
