McDowell: The Color Green

Federal Communications Commission member Robert McDowell told a RainbowPUSH audience Friday that the key to minority ownership is, well, ownership. Addressing the group's Media & Telecommunications Symposium, Commissioner McDowell said that he wanted to foster minority ownership that can be legally sustained--like a minority tax certificate program--and that will "first do no harm," but he also said it was not primarily an issue of color, at least not political hues or skin color. "To boil it down," he said, "if you want to own something, somehow you have to find the money to buy or build it. This isn't a matter of 'blue' America versus 'red' America. It's not about focusing on the differences among black, white or brown America. Instead, we should focus on the color that can unify us all, the color that can empower small entrepreneurs to change a dream into a reality. And that color is the color green."