“My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.”
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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.
What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
