John Powell says, “There’s also the language of personal responsibility, which s

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John Powell says, “There’s also the language of personal responsibility, which suggests really that there’s no institutional and structural responsibility. There’s no collective responsibility. If you’re not doing well, it’s not because of anything that we in society have done. It’s not because of our history, our legacy of Jim Crow, segregation, exploitation and subordination; it’s all personal. So it all gets translated into, “We’re not responsible.”

-What does he mean by social responsibility?

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By social responsibility he means that anything we have done in society we are surely responsible for it and we can't just escape from our duties by saying "we are not responsible". John Powell spoke out in regard to people's rights and their issues like racism and always worked for the same.Social responsibility is an individual duty which he/she has to perform to maintain balance between economy and environment we live in.

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