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		<title>Pitt Law School Dean: Affirmative action could soon be eliminated</title>
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			<title>Affirmative Action:  Needed for the Talented Tenth?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[If I may add one more thing here. Early in my youth, I had wanted to see a forensic study done on the manifest divide in black America between those of high achievement and those doing not so well to determine what factors lead to high achievement vis a vis non achievement, that achievement which speaks for itself and not needing an adjustment such as affirmative action which started at the wrong end anyway. (You don't wait until the student is ready to make the academic adjustment. You start at early youth, say, kindergarten.) But I digress. The comparison between the two black America's might shed important sociological conclusions as to cause and effect between upper and lower class black America which lead some African American to go on to academic success over those who do not. I conclude that the jury is still out on the state of education for students of color and that same jury is still out on the true assessment of the Stanford Binet as relates to black students.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John West</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Affirmative Action:  Needed for the Talented Tenth?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In my experience I've noted, in social interchanges with high achieving African Americans, that grooming for education had been a mainstay in family tradition dating back perhaps to the 1800s. This may explain, in part, at least, how Dr. DuBois came to so identify "The Talented Tenth." Truly, many African Americans had been fortunate to come from families that exposed them to education and culture enriching experiences from birth. Even in non-wealthy environments wherein the study of music aided in education. I remember, too, reading something written by Professor Ira Berlin, University of Maryland, in which he sets forth an interesting and documented observation: that as late as 1860, there were some five hundred thousands peoples of color "who had never been slaves." They were referred to as either "free persons" or "free negroes." Anyone in black America of note was a "free negro." These are the people doubtless Duke Ellington would classify as "ready."]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John West</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>The wrong issue</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Affirmative action addresses the wrong issue. It does not address the teachings of capitalism, how to gain political power in business, nor how to gain power by accumulating stock in a publically traded company using stock clubs. Affirmative action only addresses how to work for the man. If you can never be the boss and run the corporation, you can never be the one that can hire the Black man or woman looking for the job.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Darnell L Williams</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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