Sunday, January 02, 2011

Why is the black poverty rate little different now from where it was 40 years ago? The problem is not a dearth of organizations or social
initiatives, but the mysterious allergy in black America to the words
that defined what the civil rights movement was allegedly about —
individual freedom.

Plans for "economic empowerment," for example, which the Web site describes as the organization's "centerpiece," has the usual language of proposing collective action to pressure corporations to develop practices and policies that "favor justice, equality, and environmental responsibility."

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