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Aristocracy and pauperism in the Black community
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I am reminded of the fate of the infamous French Aristocracy, and its "let them eat cake" philosophy when I ponder our current economic situation. Wealth abounded in a few French families, but most other families suffered in abject poverty. Is this what the United States is becoming?
Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, referred to this new fashion of CEO's making million dollar windfalls after laying off thousands of workers, as "the disappearance of the implicit social contr...
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Gifts Of Black People Are Often Overlooked
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Black People Must Vote Their Conscience
Oakland Post
; H. Dwight Sterling Oakland Post 05-22-1994 Black People Must Vote Their Conscience. If African Americans want to impact the social and economic climate so that it will change and let some of jobs, food, shelter, education and training necessary to get jobs, they must return to the polls in the
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Black people more likely to be stopped in white areas
Evening Standard - London
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Black people must stop doubting other black people.(Business Report Weekend)
The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
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Black people win election 2000...nine months early?
New Pittsburgh Courier
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Black people shouldn't say it ..white people shouldn't say it ..no one should ever utter the N-WORD.(Features)
The Mirror (London, England)
; Byline: By DJ SPOONY PRESENTER JOHNATHAN JOSEPH IS it ever OK to use the n-word? In a word NO. To put it into some kind of context, the origin of the word ner dates back hundreds of years. It's how the slave masters referred to black people. You can't get more insulting than that. It's one of the
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OPINION: Packing jails and prisons with black people.
State (Columbia, SC)
; Byline: Warren Bolton Sep. 28--OVER THE past few weeks, the same annoying white guy has called a couple of times to tell me that black people are responsible for all of his troubles as well as virtually all the crime in Columbia, this state and nation. He said the black people he talks to
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Malcolm X's critique of the education of Black people.
The Western Journal of Black Studies
; Introduction This article focuses on Malcolm X's critique of the education of people of African descent in the United States from the time of his leadership within the Nation of Islam, until his assassination in 1965. To place Malcolm X in the center of a discussion on Black education, on the
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What If There Were No Black People In The World?
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So what do black people say about white people?
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