[Miranda J.]

Alexis de Toqueville saw this country’s lust for profits as far back as the 1830s. In the early 1900s, George Washington Carver instructed his students thus at Tuskegee Institute: Learn a trade, start a business and make money (he’s been sadly misread over the years). The mediocre Calvin Coolidge said famously that ‘the business of America is business.’ That was in 1922. And remember the ’80s?

de Toqueville also saw that there was a rampant anti-intellectualism and mistrust of scientific smarts in America. Science is acceptable only if there is monetary profit to be made of it. That has always been the case here, or just about everyone would have stayed home. I’ll bet if you took a representative sample of white people at any university, most of them would be majoring in business, too. Most of the white kids I knew at school did. Look at U.S. culture. It sprawls itself before the altar of money. Everyone wants their share. That’s why many immigrants of all races in U.S. colleges take business.

African Americans are like any other Americans. I know I’d love to see a few more of us as CEOs, even as I’d love to see more of us represented in the sciences. Why do so many people stick up for Bill Gates, even as he breaks the law? Because he’s worth $60 billion. And what does money equal? Power. What’s the rap by Public Enemy? – ‘Cause I know the time, ’cause I’m gettin’ mine.’ For your fellow African-American classmates, that means a business degree and an MBA.

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[Miranda J.]

A congressperson’s job is not only to help generate the laws of the land, but to deal with budgeting and allocating the money that comes in from taxes, and be a ‘check’ on the other two branches of government, judicial and executive. They, in turn, are checks on each other and the legislative branch. In this way, no one branch is supposed to be able to have so much power that we would have a monarchy, or worse, a dictatorship. They represent the citizens, and through them we are supposed to have our voice. Being that this is a representative democracy, the congressperson is supposed to take the majority opinions of his or her district into account when they vote. What folks want and what they need sometimes gets confused, however. That’s where the representative’s common sense is supposed to balance the needs of the district, with what they know of the law/situation at hand and the needs of citizens in the rest of the country.

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