pafb a a black history luncheon - dr fletcher 24 feb 2010

Dr. Louis L. FletcherDirector, Western Region

Troy University

Anacostia: Southeast Washington, DC

Education is the Investment

Prosperity is the Dividend

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

America’s PromissoryNote

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I Have a Dream (1963)

Due Diligence

“caveat emptor”…Let the Buyer Beware

The New PoorHeadline:

Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs“We have a work-based safety net without any work,” said Timothy M. Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “People with more education and skills will probably figure something out once the economy picks up. It’s the ones with less education and skills: that’s the new poor.”

New York TimesFebruary 21, 2010

Crime Really DoesNot Pay

Incarceration has an inverse relationship to educational attainment

IncarcerationEducationalAttainment

Education is the Investment

Prosperity is the Dividend

Learn,Earn,

Pay It Forward!

... My friends, we are one in this country. The question of the highest citizenship and the complete education of all concerns nearly ten million of my own people and over sixty million of yours. We rise as you rise; when we fall you fall. When you are strong we are strong; when we are weak you are weak. There is no power than can separate our destiny.

Democracy and Education

Booker T. WashingtonDemocracy and Education 1896

Education is the Investment

Prosperity is the Dividend

Learn,Earn,

Pay It Forward!