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We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

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It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

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Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide.

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I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

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It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.

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Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

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In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

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The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

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One must learn how to be black in America.

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I didn't feel particularly close to my father.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: September 16th, 1950

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