It is important to note that very little information is available on Mbaye because of his isolated location in Africa. ... This identity contrasts with a sense of belonging linked with citizenship within a political state, or present orientated affiliations to specific groups demanding professional, occupational, or class loyalties (De Vos, 1995: 34). ... To know one's origin is to have not only a sense provance, but perhaps more importantly, a sense continuity in which one finds to some degree the personal and social meaning of human existence. ... The psychologist, Jean Phinney (1987:10...

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That it was time for a shift of the burden and benefits scale to more equally reflect all of those who have worked hard to promote the common good of that society. ... In this instance King felt that his duty to obey the laws would not serve the common good as the laws were not laid out with the common good of all of society in mind, the Negro race was set to carry a heavier burden and receive a lesser benefit. Martin Luther King made it very clear when he said that "In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnifice...

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The endemic insecurity of such a society required all of its members to deceive themselves in order to survive and make "sense- within the social context they were born. ... The common denominator among these works is their exploration of a paradoxical connection between union and division; they question both when division is destructive and union desirable (as in the cases of the divided country, the attached Siamese twins, and the mulatto's divided racial patrimony), and when division is not only desirable but essential to social order."" ... In this sense no one is free to choose his ...

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The most common theories are that which circle HIV/AIDS. ... To better illustrate the crippling impact of conspiracy theories as they pertain to efforts and to the African American community, take note of a survey conducted by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ... Poez (1997) notes key elements on advancing conspiracies, one of which is victimhood. ... Because the people in power and wealth tend to promote people who agree with them or have some other common bond is no conspiracy, but human nature (www.acts17-11.com/conspire.html). ...

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