Because when I was looking for a proper perspective to present this to the public and to understand it myself, I found it in the Book of Genesis, the story of Joseph. Joseph, as you know, is betrayed by his 12 brothers and sold into slavery, and they faked his death, and they were sold to the Ishmaelites and then went to the House of Pontify in Egypt, where he became the best slave, the best servant. He was falsely accused of attempted rape, thrown into jail, where he became the best prisoner. I see in the person of Joseph someone who was in despair but not of despair, and a lot of my grassroots leaders who have been from horrible backgrounds, who ve been falsely accused, who have stumbled and have been broken, but they refused to become a victim. Circumstances do not create victims.
Victims create victims.
And so, like Joseph, they have risen above their circumstance and refused to allow the external challenges in life to destroy them, and so they use their ability to be transformed as a beacon to others. And so they have beckoned others to responsibility. Your book suggests very heavily in fact, it really says that you ve been swimming upstream, trying to make this argument in some parts of the black community and, indeed, some parts of the white community. 80 percent of it goes not to the poor, for those who serve poor people. They ask not which problems are solvable but which ones are fundable.