You'd have to watch the Booker part of the interview, as I'm sure I'm going to kind of butcher what he said.

Part of his dicussion was on race. But he also mentioned how difficult it is for children to grow up in single parent families. At that point he made sure to point out that while there is a larger percentage of African American single mom's, the percentage of children born out of wedlock has risen by the same percentage over the yrs for all races.

Booker's main focus was on getting folks involved with individual accomplishment. And in many cases that takes little money. Just the will to go forward.


>Booker seems to see what the issues are. I agree, he may have a bright future in politics.
>
>Having said that, I return to an argument I've made many times before and that is that we already live in a virtual color-blind society and that the greatest future for everyone is to stop talking about race, get rid of affirmative action, and get folks more involved with individual accomplishment. Want to know what good race relations are? Treat everyone like a human being. Make all opportunities equal. That's the big secret.
>
>>I happened to catch some of Bill Moyers show last nite on PBS. It was about race relations:
>>
>>http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2008/03/race_poverty_and_the_inner_cit_1.html#c71355
>>
>>I didn't catch the first guy. Someone who worked on a Govt group a while back and produced a whitepaper calling for more of the same. If we can just use our govt to create more jobs for the underpriviledged....
>>
>>But the 2nd part was an interview with Newark mayor Corey Booker. What an inspiring guy. I hope he can keep his thing in his pants so he can have a long career in politics. He seems to really have his head screwed on straight and has some great ideas.