This is a question that many African Americans may have asked or be asking themselves. ... It would be easier to ask what black people have become today, because the answer would be practically everything; it would be more difficult to ask what it means to "be black" because it is probably seen different by so many people on their own definitional grounds. ... This natural cause proves that no one's racial identity should be questioned, regardless of the way they carry themselves. ... This proves that the logic behind "acting white" must stem from jealousy, or hatred, rather than some so...

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In 1894, if she would have taken a more militant stance it would have been easy for whites to dismiss her logic as bias due to her "black disposition". The idea of taking a less offensive stance in order to convince another party of your logic is an age old method of persuasion that Wells is able to yield masterfully in "A Red Record". ... Wells understood the idea that it is much easier to show people inconsistencies in another culture than it is to show them problems within their own. ... "The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of soci...

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The refusal of most affirmative action supporters to acknowledge this unavoidable logical truth " their naive or cynical embrace of Justice Lewis Powell's wiggy notion in Bakke that quotas are bad but race-as-a-factor is OK (because they do it that way at Harvard) " leaves supporters quite rightly scared of what the court might do when it reconsiders the question from scratch. ... To get an understanding we must ask the question "What is affirmative action?" ... Nevertheless, excluding Hispanics, or Asians, from affirmative action will not be easy. ... But these processes ar...

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