Benjamin Todd Jealous
Benjamin Todd Jealous
Benjamin Todd Jealousis an American venture capitalist, civic leader and former president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He is currently a partner at Kapor Capital, Board Chairman of the Southern Elections Fund and one of the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs Visiting Professors at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth18 January 1973
CountryUnited States of America
Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.
In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't organized.
I often tell people I don't care whether they join the NAACP or some other group, but you better join something.
We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.
With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.