The New Color is Not Black or White, it’s GREEN

by | Jan 14, 2016 | Financial Literacy, HOPE 700 Credit Score Communities, HOPE Global Forums, HOPE Inside, HOPE Project 5117, HOW THE POOR CAN SAVE CAPITALISM Book, John Hope Bryant Authored, Love Leadership Book, Operation HOPE, Silver Rights

      Last night’s Opening Reception, and subsequent dialogue on “The Aspirational Future of Black Men in America,” featuring Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, Van Jones of CNN and Dream Corps, Ben Jealous of Kapor Capital and former CEO...

“700 credit score communities don’t riot. You have never seen a ‘middle class’ community riot — in all of American history.  Only 500 credit score communities — riot. Failed economics — in our lives — actually inspires frustration.  Failed economics, in our broader communities, actually becomes an active breeding ground for anger, dissension, community angst.”  John Hope Bryant, founder of Operation HOPE and the HOPE Global Forum

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“To live in a system of free enterprise, but not to understand the rules of free enterprise, must be the very definition of slavery.”  HOPE Global Spokesman and civil rights icon, Ambassador Andrew Young.  

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