>I heard his wife address the graduating class of UCAL Merced – a school with a large minority population. She urged them to go back to the neighborhoods after graduation to community organize and tend to the social needs of the commnity.
Not for nothing. If I were a migrant farm worker breaking my back in the hot son picking lettuce to send my kid to college;
I’d want him or her to aim a tad higher.
She didn’t advise them to go work in the business community or open their own small busineses to create jobs and generate revenues for the community.
She didn’t tell them to be successful and inspire others to do so – actually help others to do so with the wealth accummulated by hard work and the opportunity that America offers all. She told them to go work in a soup kitchen.
I wonder if a young Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey were in that audience and decided to take that route instead of the one that brought them unimaginable riches ; which they have generously shared with the world’s needy.
I wonder about all those folks who would not have been helped if these two careers had been detoured by such a speech.
And I think I’ll keep my kids home on Sept. 8.
