Most religions don't teach separation of discrimination, Franklin said. Brotherhood ought to be the most natural thing for the church to promote. Friday currently serves as executive director of the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust and as president of the William R. Kenan Jr. Fund. During their talk, Friday took on the role of talk show host as he asked Franklin questions about racial issues and about Franklin's findings as chairman of President Clinton's national advisory board on race. We spend as much on prisons as we do on schools.
Poverty produces ill health, illiteracy and crime.
Franklin said people must look beyond race on these issues to find the cause of the problems. People are not poor because they want to be poor. People are not poor because they lack the ambition to be otherwise. We have the source and we have the capacity to help, but we don't have the will. We can do something about it.