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    Black People Politics : NAACP Leader Rachel Dolezal Speaks Out: 'I Do Consider Myself to Be Black'

    Just came across this thread and found it very interesting, especially the comments regarding race as biological versus cultural. I've always thought of myself as biologically black but culturally rather apart, being of Dominican heritage, though born in the States. So much so that when I had to...
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    Black People : From 1992 to 2013, the Median Net Worth of Blacks Who Finished College Dropped Nearly 56%

    Fact is if you're black with a degree you're going to be better off than being black without a degree. As far as debt goes people need to apply some common sense. I could have gone to a private college for 4 years at a cost of $25K per year plus another $15K per year in accommodation plus at...
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    Black People : Black on Black Crime Widely Ignored, Says African American Activists

    In a lot of cases its just going to be down to demographics and location. Chances are if I'm robbed or attacked or whatever its going to be someone black who does it to me. The reason isn't because we are more criminal, its simply that almost everyone here is black; white people really stand out...
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    Black People : Going to Africa...

    I'd love to go there. Hopefully when I've graduated I'll be able to save up a little money to make that a reality. Just one point regarding the where you are from part and DNA tests etc. I stand to be corrected but I believe the DNA tests will only follow the maternal or paternal lines back. In...
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    Black Education / Schools : Can black English help black children learn better? One educator believes so

    If you read the original article we aren't talking about some major change in the classroom that if it fails is going to put our kids back months in their education. We are simply talking about using a computer program to get across one or two concepts and then see how well the children respond...
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    Black Education / Schools : Can black English help black children learn better? One educator believes so

    The key thing remains the question of does this work or doesn't it. If it can be proved that it does then surely it makes sense to at least try this approach. If it turns out it makes for no improvement then abandon the idea and move on. After all how we feel about it isn't really the point...
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    Black Education / Schools : Can black English help black children learn better? One educator believes so

    Again I'm not suggesting we replace the teaching of standard English with Ebonics and I don't believe that was the intention of the original researcher either. Obviously we need to speak standard English well in order to succeed in the world in which we find ourselves. I've often heard people...
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    Black Education / Schools : Can black English help black children learn better? One educator believes so

    First to Kemestry and Black Phoenix.... I can understand exactly where you are coming from but there is another way to view things - Ebonics was after all something we developed. We lost all knowledge of our original languages through their deliberate purging. Ebonics could be seen by many as...
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    Black Education / Schools : Can black English help black children learn better? One educator believes so

    Sure teaching in Ebonics sounds like some kind of backward step to many, but the key question is: 'Does it work?' We need measures to improve our chances of success in Education. So if the approach can be proven to work use it. Let's have some more research to see if and how much of a difference...
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    Black People : The Coming Apocalypse of The Unknown Race

    I think the key points here which I agree with entirely are that lighter skinned actresses are over-represented and that they should in no way be thought of as the best of Blackness. My own desire would be for there to be way way more women of color on our screens with all our gorgeous shades...
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    Black People : The Coming Apocalypse of The Unknown Race

    Agreed we need to see more, many many more dark skinned actresses on our screens. However, I'm a little worried at the tendency to label our lighter skinned sisters in some way as not really black. Having a 'white mother' is after all just the extreme end of the mix we all possess. Can there...
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    Black Education / Schools : Can black English help black children learn better? One educator believes so

    Sounds like a great idea to me. Kids are bound to learn better in their own language. My only disagreement with anything was in regard to this sentence: He Writes in Proper English and Ebonics. The term 'Proper English' just doesn't sit right with me. It makes it sound as though the two...
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    Black People : The Coming Apocalypse of the Unknown Race: Race Relations

    My own personal opinion, simply from what I observe around me is that the system is rigged, but not to benefit everyone except us; it's rigged in favor of a small elite group of white people who don't really care about anyone down here among the masses whatever race or ethnicity they might be...
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    Black Sports : Why don't any black countries have any Olypmic Swimmers?

    Only had time for a quick glance at this so far, but I found an article about osteoporosis almost straight away via Google that said the following in its summary.... "This review summarizes evidence that white, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American women are more at risk for osteoporosis than...
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    Black Sports : Why don't any black countries have any Olypmic Swimmers?

    I'm sure I read somewhere about the greater bone density too - it was in some article about how those weight charts don't work for us - they make us seem fatter than we are because they're based on white people's stats and don't account for our heavier bones. Which makes me wonder; do black...
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