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Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart. Constance Baker Motley

Group Too See Blacks Still Apart Whites Many

In the years after World War I, blacks began to migrate to the North and its imagined freedoms in great numbers - 'Russian' came to mean a black who had rushed from the South. Darryl Pinckney

Baldwin gave expression to the longings of blacks in exalted prose. He was embraced, in the tradition of Negro Firsterism, even by those who never sat down with a book, as our preeminent literary spokesman, whether he liked it or not. Neither athlete nor entertainer, but nevertheless a star. Darryl Pinckney

Book Down Gave Our Those Neither Entertainer Athlete Embraced Exalted Blacks Never He Prose Spokesman Nevertheless Liked Tradition Nor Literary Whether Who Sat Even Star Expression

The demise of Reconstruction had made it hard for blacks to acquire capital or to pass on property to their children. As blacks were driven from all but the most limited spheres of business and political life, the prestige of the professional rose in the black community. Darryl Pinckney

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As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks. David Horowitz

Freedom People Equality Result Black Face Earth Ruled Blacks Ideals America Efforts Nations Anywhere Realize Richest Including Now

I came into my teens unaware that most Americans, blacks as well as whites, were ignorant of the main facts of Negro history. And so it was the facts of other histories that I found most intriguing. I fell into a U.S. history major by chance late in my second year at Fisk University. David Levering Lewis

History Year Other Late Teens Intriguing Unaware Blacks Facts Main Major Most Fell Well Came Were Histories American Ignorant Whites Found Second Chance University

A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away. Dennis Miller

Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left. Dennis Prager

Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel. Dennis Prager

Behavior Will Black Nothing White Libel Neither Blacks Perceptions Vast Vast Majority Could Animosity Tensions Since Majority Affect Nor Falsehood Left Leftist America American Either Racial Many Based Actual

Our only hope for America is that every conservative takes upon him or herself the project of learning what American and conservative values are, coming to understand what leftism stands for, and learning how to make the case for those values to women, young people, blacks and Hispanics. Dennis Prager

Hope Learning Women People Conservative Values Young Every Conservative Values Herself Our Project Those Case Blacks Only Takes Make Him Understand How Coming Hispanics America American Young People Stands

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is. Dizzy Gillespie

When I was growing up, our nation was partitioned: Blacks were segregated by law in the South and largely by custom in the North, though it, too, had segregation laws. Our best universities had quota systems. Many white communities had real estate covenants to keep nonwhites out. Donna Brazile

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While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge. Douglas Brinkley

Spiritual Surrender Racism Old National Crippling Broke Sung Following Blacks Sadly Hours Scourge Done While Chain Last Slavery

Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent. Ed Smith

People Master Few Those Prominent Blacks Both Opened Well Chefs Came Were South Up Very Survived Upper Establishments Them Certainly Deep Many Washington Deep South Here

Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects. Ed Smith

War Constitution Reality Burden Added Respects Civil Some Blacks Civil War Segregation Beyond Because End Amendment Expectations Many Elevated

Despite allegations by liberal advocacy groups that voter suppression tactics by the right hindered minority voting, blacks represented 13 percent of the electorate in 2012, a percentage about equivalent with 2008. Elizabeth Flock

Voting Minority Liberal Despite About Allegations Percent Blacks Percentage Tactics Voter Suppression Advocacy Equivalent Electorate Groups Right

While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did. Eric Holder

Service Man Father Country Oklahoma Blacks More Spite Never He Couple Known Were South Than American Did Refused African Where African Americans Loved While Places Uniform Who Served

Every ghetto you go to, Latinos and blacks are the two people that are together. We don't look at each other in any different way, like 'He's black; I'm Latino.' I look at us as one. Fat Joe

It's hard to pin down what it means to be an evangelical today. It's been diluted quite a bit. It is a powerful voting bloc, no question, but they're liberal as well as conservative - and they're made of Latinos, blacks, whites. Franklin Graham

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates. George Jackson

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