The difference between the two is that while Obama and liberals generally sense a great debt to the civil rights pioneers who made their opportunities possible, Cain and other conservatives generally tend to persuade themselves that they have done it on their own.This is heading towards a false binary.
Everybody in America today owes a great debt to the various predecessors who made their opportunities possible: civil-rights pioneers, sure, and feminist pioneers, and the covered-wagon pioneers, and the Founding Fathers, and Abraham Lincoln, and the Pilgrims, and the guys who built the railroad, and so on.
But it was Conor O'Shea's clinical Quins outfit that made their opportunities count.
Unskilled, undesirable, good-natured, simple-minded -- these ideas about what black women are, or what they should be, have shaped social expectations for black women and made their opportunities smaller than they'd be otherwise.
Black Coral Capital, the investment arm of an anonymous family office, says the effort was a way to leverage their vast fortunes to make their own opportunities in the clean technology space.
Restricted from most liberties, prisoners often make their own opportunities with materials at hand.
Barnatt echoed that same advice now, urging young actors to make their own opportunities.
It has become home to the homeless and a beacon to every comedian wanting to make their own opportunities.
Social media along with its host of issues, most of all, underlines the importance of parenting and parents need to make their own opportunities to take responsibility for their children's future.
Key said both countries had been pursuing deeper economic ties with China, which could increase their opportunities to make their case diplomatically.
