Stossel is a hero of mine.

Reverends Wright and Farrakhan also come to mind.

I saw her live on Stossel. Like many other people, Star Parker is able to compartmentalize her religious emotions from what she has to do regarding existence as it is. Stossel did a good job of keeping her off the “Christian” conversion to which she gives credit, and kept her pretty much on track of the subject of the interview.

Example: Pope Francis.

Hilarious. Wonder what Carly F. would say?

There was an article about 15 years ago in EE Times, where a point was made that the number of hispanic electrical engineers employed in southern CA was so much lower than the percentage of these people in the population.

A beautiful response came back agreeing, but the number of hispanics with engineering degrees was the issue, and if you look at the number of hispanics with degrees vs employment the ratio is far better than white people.

The problem is not that the US will not accept these people. The problem is that these people do NOT want to be accepted into the society that works hard and pays well. They want the society that works hard and pays well to change to their culture.

Again I say Asians don't have this issue. They wear normal clothes, speak pretty good/perfect English, study hard and work hard, even when they come from poor families.

No offense Ciruitguy, but SHE SAID it was her conversion. Why do you feel the need to in essence say she lied about that?

She HAD a belief system that was born from the teachings and narrative of the left, discovered and adopted a new belief system that changed her attitude.

Regardless of whether it was becoming Buddhist, or Objectivist, or Christian or a follower of Plato or Cicero, SHE changed her view based on a change in her belief system that SHE attributes to Christianity.

She does however; reiterate so many Objectivist views in what she is saying, probably without even knowing it.

She also indicated how none of these issue are really race related except via the "narrative" she used to buy into.

When you take accountability for YOUR choices, and Decisions, yes you will break out of poverty.

Thomas Edison said: "Opportunity is missed by many because it is often dressed in overalls and resembles hard work."

did jesse jackson, al sharpton or barak obama listen to this woman? probably not.

" So the government actually punishes those who try to improve themselves."

And that is the whole point. It is slavery by degrees. One starts with a thin cord by persuading another to wear it like jewelry. After a couple of generations, it's now a thick chain that is worn with pride to the call of the race hucksters who leverage the pride in the chains to call for everyone to wear them, instead of for the people to simply take responsibility and cast them off!

Is the war on poverty truly a failure?

If you mean "failed to accomplish its ostensible mission," I would agree.

But if you mean "failed to accomplish its true mission," I'm not so sure.

Such is the Obamanation of spreading the wealth around.

The war on poverty has definitely been a failure. We are the same percentage of poor people that we were back in the 60's. The idea that has been bred into the narrative is the 63 different, means tested, anti-poverty programs. In Seattle and other places, there have been requests from people who got their wages raised, to cut their hours so that they would not make so much that they would lose their benefits.A while ago, I saw some graphs that put the benefits that could received at certain income levels. As incomes rise, benefit levels decrease but at a much faster level. So a person who is starting to make more loses more benefits, it is not dollar for dollar. So the government actually punishes those who try to improve themselves.

CG, sometimes I agree with you such as now.
I may be a white Protestant but I know there are a lot of obsessing moochers who go to a Christian church way more often than I do.
Not all Christian preachers are capitalists either.

The key point she makes is stopping thinking "my problems are somebody else's fault."

I don't think it's really about her conversion to Christianity or "the narrative of the left".

At one point he asks the audience how many think it's harder to succeed with dark skin. Most people said no. I say "probably yes" but you cannot obsess over it. I suspect I have some slight disadvantage in the business world for being shorter than ave. When my parents were my age, they faced descrimination for an Italian name and background. It certainly exists today for women in the electronics industry. The problem is obsessing about that stuff. People start off with these little biases, but what you actually do vastly predominates over these little advantages/disadvantages. No matter who you are you probably have had some "unfair" disadvantages and advantages. The moocher lie is obsessing over them.