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Rev. Jesse Jackson: Slavery, Capitalism, and Business Ethics.
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Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Rev. Jesse Jackson argues that the underclasses can't get ahead because they are denied access to capital.
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Review of Rev. Jesse Jackson: Slavery, Capitalism,and Business Ethics.
It’s always enlightening to hear the engaging Reverend Jesse Jackson’s take on things. As an active participant in making history, his perspective on ours matters. He starts off low key, but righteous outrage expands as he expounds on such ethical questions as: how can we be so wealthy and have 44 million without health insurance? His main point is that “fairness and sharing are the keys to lasting prosperity.” He reminds us that America was founded on the economics of apartheid, its first business slavery, and it’s a mere fifty years since all were deemed equal. As always, pithy and quotable: “We can lead the world by our values, not rule it by our guns…Right is might, might is not right,” just one example of many. Timely airing now, because as he stresses, who gets elected determines who gets what. “Your budget is a value,” and lately we’ve been valuing the wealthy.