It was shown in the thread, short-bus.
"It’s not enough to change a few words here and there and leave the rest; instead, you must completely restate the ideas in the passage in your own words....If your own language is too close to the original, then you are plagiarizing, even if you do provide a citation."-Harvard Honor Code
President Diversity, without quotes: "African-Americans in 'high-black-empowerment' areas-- as indicated by control of the mayor's office-- are more active than either African-Americans in low empowerment areas or their white counterparts of comparable socioeconomic status. Empowerment, they conclude, influence black participation by contributing to a more trusting and efficacious orientation towards politics and by greatly increasing black attentiveness to political affairs."
Source: "blacks in 'high-black-empowerment' areas-- as indicated by control of the mayor's office-- are more active than either blacks living in low-empowerment areas or their white counterparts of comparable socioeconomic status... empowerment influence black participation by contributing to a more trusting and efficacious orientation towards politics and by greatly increasing black attentiveness to political affairs."
Would you say that President Diversity's language is in her own words here?