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From Politics to Pulpit |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / PEOPLE IN THE NEWS |
| Author: Robert Selle |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1998 |
| Size: 988 Words, 5,891 Characters |
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What moves a man with a safe congressional seat and 11 years of seniority at the upper rungs of power in the U.S. House of Representatives to abruptly quit and go home?
The offer of a lucrative lobbying job or a glamorous foreign ambassadorship? The chance to: become a million-dollar-a year bank vice president?
Try the wish to become full-time pastor again of his thriving innercity New York church and director of its broad range of social service programs that aid tens of thousands of New Yorkers.
That’s the career shift” that 52-year-old Rep. Floyd Flake (D- New ...
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... skills so they can find jobs even without the set-aside programs. In this light, then, even school choice programs for low-income families become “affirmative action” endeavors.
Ultimately, Flake says, race relations can achieve a new level of amity when government and churches help inner-city people “build an attitude of home ownership, entrepreneurship, and do-it-yourself determination.”
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