Squirrels are not known to have brains. There are no Ph.D. squirrels, no attorney squirrels . . . Squirrels, by whatever instinct, put away some acorns for winter. Many very literate people don't have squirrel sense, no sense of putting away any acorns for the future even though the human being has the capacity to project and imagine the winter. On investing Jackson and his son, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
Money grows in the market.
The language of stocks and bonds, the very language of the culture eludes you. And so personal finance becomes political action. In slavery, capital accumulation was nonexistent for us. The second movement was to end legal segregation. The next step was the right to vote, so we could begin to get city and county jobs and contracts.