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...were a chilly time for people espousing her sort of message," Bok says. "But [Edelman] showed admirable qualities of perseverance, often working against the national grain to get people to take notice of this enormously important set of issues she has chosen to champion...
Landers says Edelman is particularly important to the national political scene because she has shown that a female minority can significantly influence society...
...Edelman, however, is not without her critics. Last February, an article in The New Republic accused her of being inconsistent in her treatment of the "culture of poverty...
...article states that Edelman, in her lectures at Harvard, acknowledged the existence of "a small subgroup of the poverty population alienated from or hostile to the larger society...
...article argues that Edelman's statements made through the Children's Defense Fund indicate that she is "railing against attempts to confront the culture of poverty whose existence she herself implicitly concedes...