‘Prosperity Needs to Be Shared,’ Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) Says, As Energy Dept Launches Minority Outreach (but if minorities want to be scientists and engineers, what's wrong with plain old-fashioned study, study, study?)

‘Prosperity Needs to Be Shared,’ Dem Says, As Energy Dept Launches Minority Outreach

(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said “prosperity needs to be shared” at an event on Tuesday at the Energy Department to promote opportunities for minorities in the energy sector.

“We seek greatness, goodness, excellence, hard work, usually wealth comes with that, not always. It’s not what we seek, but it’s what the result of our good work is – and prosperity for America. But that prosperity needs to be shared in a way that honors the talents and the strengths of the individuals that make up this great country,” Landrieu said at the event to launch the Minorities in Energy Initiative.

“We’ve got such a long way to go in terms of really using the talent in this community, in our community generally, to create wealth and opportunity – and wealth not as a means to itself but as a result of excellence and hard work, not as something we seek,” Landrieu said.

The Energy Department says its new "Minorities in Energy Initiative" will "strive to ensure that our energy workforce more fully reflects the diversity and strengths of the country." It says Hispanics, African Americans and American Indians make up 24 percent of the overall U.S. workforce, yet account for only 9 percent of the country’s science and engineering workforce, which are the fields that drive the energy sector.

“Beginning this month, the Minorities in Energy Initiative will coordinate a conversation to link together representatives from diverse community organizations, academia, business, and industry to provide their individual perspectives to address shared challenges in the areas of energy economic development, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education, and climate change.” . . .

     Of course, who can be surprised at this sort of nuttiness anymore when even astronauts are being partially chosen on the basis of their skin color--or [wink-wink] in helping NASA achieve "diversity," as the head of the astronaut program once proudly proclaimed. 

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/prosperity-needs-be-shared-dem-says-energy-dept-launches-minority-outreach

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