Does Race Drive Opportunity? - John Powell

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/07/POWER_John_A_Powell_on_Opportunity_and_Race

John A. Powell, head of the Kirwan Institute, discusses the differing opportunity structures found within minority communities. "Opportunity in this country is deeply, profoundly racialized," says Powell.

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John A. Powell, executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, maps out opportunity to affirm what many people - particularly people of color - already know.

Powell's momenutum: "Life is about building relationships and engaging others. We are all co-constituted through each other. Why wouldn't you be inspired to engage the world?" - Momentum Conference

Professor and Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University and Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, John Powell is an internationally recognized authority in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, and issues relating to race, ethnicity, poverty, and the law. He was previously national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, founder and director of the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota, and a co-founder of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council.

He formerly taught at law schools including Harvard and Columbia University. Professor Powell serves on the board of several national organizations. He holds a J.D. from the University of California Berkeley, and a B.A. from Stanford University.

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[MultiSmartass1]

@pqxxedf Look, Im not religious so i dont really care but my position is if you have a beef with christianity, that this doesnt seem like the forum for it.

Also, you seem to be think that women have no rights as human beings, If you hate women, go somewhere else and talk about it.

This video deals with race and opportunity. Unless you are ready to discuss that, dont bother me here.

[pqxxedf]

@pqxxedf Doing a little research... Bill Cosby criticizes black men for not being part of women-run families? That is disappointing. It's like George Carlin's joke, the Catholic schoolteacher breaks Johnny's hand and then complains to Johnny's parents about his bad handwriting.

[pqxxedf]

@MultiSmartass1 Black men are turning to Islam because our government and the "Christian" church do not even allow them to use reasonable force to keep order in their own homes. Are black churches following the feminist dollar, or do they teach the truth about wives being submissive to their husbands? When a black empowered woman goes to the store, does she save a few pennies by buying a communist Chinese slave labor made product, putting her black male counterparts out of work?

[MultiSmartass1]

@pqxxedf Sound to me like you have a problem with women's rights-in whatever form they come in.

To be frank, this video is not about sex or gender but race. Id rather stick to the topic at hand.

[pqxxedf]

@MultiSmartass1 Ruling class rich women have no higher power to bait and corrupt them. Some of the middle class take care of their children, but that won't be the case once there is no middle class. Democrats actively promote the ruling class women's "rights" agenda (Republicans do not object). Republicans are there to protect the ruling class against the costs of women's "rights" trying to make their way back up to the ruling class.

[MultiSmartass1]

@pqxxedf Actually, the rich get richer because they have the best advantages including neighborhoods. What women "rights" have to do with that, Iam hazy on at present.

Yeah, the rich take care of their children but so do the middle class.

I gather you are referring to welfare and single parent families maybe and perhaps abortion.

[pqxxedf]

@MultiSmartass1 "Behavior has never been the casue of poverty except for the ruling class actions that perpetuate and continue impoverished conditions". Exactly. Like the women's "rights" that the ruling class force on the rest of us but do not practice among themselves. The rich get richer because they take care of their children. The ruling class promote sex warfare (in the name of "women's rights") to divide and conquer us, and it's working out very well for them.

[MultiSmartass1]

@BaronVonLichtenstein Conisdering Iam the one making the point about class, your point about America never being classless come too little too late for this discussion.

It doesn't really matter about what the information age. There have always been poor, middle class and rich in this country-the question is the size of each class.

If by carots you mean jobs then even dumb teenagers need to work or do you like people living off the dole?

[BaronVonLichtenstein]

@MultiSmartass1 I'm saying in an information age, no one is going to be worse off than the bottom half. Its only an average, but on a larger scale the economic repercussions are enormous. And America was never classless. Go to any court and you see blue collar people being reamed daily by cops, and the courts. My point is, money generally comes to the smart, well educated, well trained or entrepanuers, and we are not helping by dangling carots bribing dumb teenagers to spawn.

[MultiSmartass1]

@BaronVonLichtenstein The Bell Curve doesn't prove anything-I have read it at least twice.

From a class perspective, poor and working class whites could be said to be oppressed.

Walmart is a duplicitous corporation that pays its workers piss poor wages.

You are correlating class with IQ and then postulating that choices are somehow bound up with intelligence solely. That is not logical.