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Aggo,
You should "wish and pray". Don't "worry".
Sam
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Date: Monday, March 26, 2007 7:20 pm
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> I only hope, wish, worry and pray that my grandchildren, if they
> happen to be born in this country, will "take similar advantage of
> this country's hard-won opportunities" as Mr. Clarence Pages aptly
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> What to do???
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> Blackness redefined..........................
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> Enjoy!!!!
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> From Chicago Tribune
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> http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0703180344mar18,1,2681158.column?coll=chi-news-col&ctrack=1&cset=true
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> Clarence Page
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> Black immigrants collect most degrees
> But affirmative action is losing direction
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> Published March 18, 2007
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> WASHINGTON -- Do African immigrants make the smartest Americans? The
> question may sound outlandish, but if you were judging by statistics
> alone, you could find plenty of evidence to back it up.
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> In a side-by-side comparison of 2000 census data by sociologists
> including John R. Logan at the Mumford Center, State University of New
> York at Albany, black immigrants from Africa averaged the highest
> educational attainment of any population group in the country,
> including whites and Asians.
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> For example, 43.8 percent of African immigrants had achieved a
> college degree, compared with 42.5 of Asian-Americans, 28.9 percent
> for immigrants from Europe, Russia and Canada and 23.1 percent of the
> U.S. population as a whole.
>
> That defies the usual stereotypes of Asian-Americans as the only
> "model minority." Yet the traditional American narrative has rendered
> the high academic achievements of black immigrants from Africa and the
> Caribbean invisible, as if that were a taboo topic.
>
> Instead, we should take a closer look. That was my reaction in 2004
> after black Harvard law professor Lani Guinier and Henry Louis Gates
> Jr., chairman of Harvard's African-American studies department,
> stirred up a black Harvard alumni reunion with questions about
> precisely where the university's new black students were coming from.
>
> About 8 percent, or about 530, of Harvard's undergraduates were
> black, Gates and Guinier said, but somewhere between one-half and
> two-thirds of the black students were "West Indian and African
> immigrants or their children, or to a lesser extent, children of
> biracial couples."
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> If we take a closer look, I said at the time, I bet we'd find that
> Harvard's not alone. With all of the ink and airwaves that have been
> devoted to immigration these days, black immigrants remain remarkably
> invisible. Yet, their success has long followed the patterns of other
> high-achieving immigrants.
>
> Now comes a new study that finds a consistent pattern of Ivy League
> and other elite colleges and universities boosting their black student
> populations by enrolling large numbers of immigrants from Africa, the
> West Indies and Latin America.
>
> Immigrants, who make up 13percent of the nation's college-age black
> population, account for more than a fourth of black students at Ivy
> League and other selective universities, according to the study of 28
> colleges and universities. The authors of the study, published
> recently in the American Journal of Education, included Douglas S.
> Massey of Princeton University and Camille Z. Charles at the
> University of Pennsylvania. The proportion of immigrants was higher at
> private institutions, 28.8 percent, than at the public colleges, where
> they comprised 23.1 percent of enrollment.
>
> Are elite schools padding their racial diversity numbers with black
> immigrants who do not have a history of American slavery in their
> families? This development immediately calls into question whether
> affirmative action admission policies are fulfilling their original intent.
>
> But, as Walter Benn Michaels, a professor of English at the
> University of Illinois at Chicago, writes in his book "The Trouble
> With Diversity," the original intent of affirmative action morphed in
> the 1970s from reparations for slavery into the promotion of a broader
> virtue: "diversity."
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> Since then, it no longer seems to matter how many of our colleges'
> black students have slavery in their families. It only matters that
> they're black.
>
> That said, I don't begrudge black immigrants or any other
> high-achieving immigrants for their impressive achievements. I applaud
> them. I encourage more native-born American children, particularly my
> own child, to take similar advantage of this country's hard-won opportunities.
>
> But I also think we need to revisit the question of diversity. Unlike
> our system of feel-good game-playing, we need to focus on the deeper
> question of how opportunities can be opened to everyone who was left
> behind by the civil rights revolution. We tend to look too often at
> every aspect of diversity except economic class.
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