Kudos
I saw your interview this morning, with MSNBC's version of "The Beeb". Congratulations for doing what you're doing to awaken black and brown children to career opportunities OTHER THAN Organized Sports. This gives black and brown mothers, as well as their children, a larger view of opportunities and goals for their lives.
The outfit you're running in L.A. reminds me of an organization in a large corporation; named Preliminary Design., that I joined in the mid-80s. It had a 20-year horizon for applying current technology, and exploring new technologies; with an eye for manufacturability and markets. One of my clients, a mixed-race, married couple, both Cal-Tech products, created a "world" that you might review with an eye toward your "education" goals. I am more and more convinced that "other worlds" have to be created, in order to properly educate the children of marginalized citizens in our country. Google ACAJI, and read about the Multi-function Dome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdWi5xa6YFs.
As Jesse Jackson remarked after running for President in 1988: "Our patch ain't big enough"!
C.K. Prahalad's book: The Fortune At The Bottom Of The Pyramid, Eradicating Poverty Through Profits, points to the immense numbers of impoverished people in the world who subsist by their wits and their abilities to "improvise". Their stories parallel those of the Slaves and their descendents in the United States. As in this country, today, the "Profits" never show up in ways that benefit anybody in our Ghettos; and "Poverty" has not been "eradicated". We have to think beyond "invention" to fix that problem.
Maybe we can make the "patch" big enough, by including ALL black and brown children in the Americas? Recent events in New York City prove that the world can't wait for white people to figure out the insanity of keeping their foot on the necks of marginalized non-whites. Self-help can be a good thing, only if we think it through!; and enlarge the "Patch"??
Stay Vigilant! "Put Down Your Buckets, Where You Are!!" That's still good advice!
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