Say That!

"If 'activists' would spend less time makin[g] demands of government and more time demanding that 'the people' do the simple things needed for uplift — finishing high school, postponing parenthood and entering the job market, even if it's at minimum wage, and staying in it — those income statistics would rise dramatically. Unfortunately, our energy is still concentrated on outside forces rather than those within." — oldschoolfool, Booker Rising reader, responding to Black America's statistics in the just-released U.S. Census report about income, poverty, and health insurance