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...LeRoy Walker Jr., a leading black businessman and Tougaloo board member, pulled Jackson aside to set him straight: Ebbers had given Tougaloo more than $1 million along with new information technology. Ebbers had also helped Walker purchase a country club and computers to be used by disadvantaged black youth. "Bernie Ebbers," Walker told Jackson, "is my mentor...
...response to an audience member’s question Galbraith said that he had significant doubts about America’s attempt to crackdown on drugs through legal action, comparing it to the Prohibition of his youth...
...document a decline in the number of 18-24 year-olds who vote; current events rank slightly below navigating the fro-yo machine in the minds of too many college students. Television advertising is the most powerful communicative tool politics has ever seen, yet the fraction of ads targeting youth is negligible...
Money tells: the fact that candidates spend almost nothing to recruit the support of young voters is the clearest example of lawmakers’ belief in the apathy and powerlessness of youth. Of course, the paucity of major campaign donors under 30 has something to do with politicians’ willingness to disregard the opinions of twenty-somethings. Unfortunately, but unsurprisingly, this disregard reinforces the apathy among college-age potential voters. Young people have exploded into national prominence in the last decade as entrepreneurs, dot-com millionaires, pop stars and community activists. The ’90s recognized the power...
...that fully 60 percent of 18-24 year-olds view community volunteerism as the most effective method of improving society. Young people today give unprecedented amounts of time and energy to public service. Channelling that drive into political activism will produce top-down change by electing candidates dedicated to youth concerns: the environment, clean elections, the future of social welfare programs. Combining community volunteerism with political engagement will solve both local and national problems more effectively than either tactic could alone. Economic dynamism and vigorous community service distinguish the Millennial generation. Apathy is not a Millennial characteristic. Instead of lamenting...